Sep 18, 2024 FTC Commissioner Claims Agency Creates Favorable Precedent Through Venue Selection By Len Gordon Jay Prapaisilp During the dog days of August, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) brought two complaints against auto companies involving alleged...
Aug 26, 2024 FTC Fines Car Companies $10 Million Calling Out Influencers and Endorsers By Len Gordon Jay Prapaisilp This summer the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has turned up the heat on two companies that provide extended car repair coverage,...
Aug 19, 2024 FTC Steps on Career Step and Alleged Inflated Promises of Employment Opportunities By Len Gordon William Lawrence In July, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) brought a complaint against Career Step LLC for targeting servicemembers with...
Aug 19, 2024 What’s the FTC “Up To?” Arise Virtual Solutions and the Gig Economy By Len Gordon William Lawrence Last month, in a joint effort with the Department of Labor (DOL), the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settled an action against Arise...
Aug 24, 2023 Car Dealer Shared Viral Video of Truck in Tornado ... and Then Got Sued for Infringement By Brian Murphy This case is about what can happen when an advertiser (here, a Chevy dealer) modifies and then shares on Facebook a viral video (showing...
Jan 03, 2023 Exercise Choreography and Alleged Betrayal: Tracy Anderson vs. Megan Roup By Brian Murphy Tracy Anderson, the self-described “fitness pioneer,” developed the Tracy Anderson Method (“TA Method”), a series of exercise routines...
Dec 07, 2022 What the FTC’s Aggressive New Policy Statement on Unfair Methods of Competition Means for Advertisers By Len Gordon Craig Gilley On November 10, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released an aggressive new Policy Statement outlining the current FTC’s view on what...
Sep 15, 2021 Ninth Circuit Clarifies Standards for Equitable Damages in False Advertising Cases By Len Gordon William Lawrence A recent decision in the Ninth Circuit sheds new light on whether, and the standard by which, a false advertising claimant must prove...
Apr 21, 2021 Hungarian Competition Authority Helps Undertakings to Avoid ‘Greenwashing’ By Aniko Keller Lilla Szabo This article is a follow-up to our previous report on ‘greenwashing’. In recent years, ‘greenwashing’ has become important to...
Mar 31, 2021 Fighting ‘Greenwashing’ – Extensive Sweep Conducted by the Consumer Protection Cooperation Network By Aniko Keller Lilla Szabo Sustainability plays a pivotal role in the decision-making process of today’s consumers. They tend to opt for products with labels such...
Jan 27, 2020 Ninth Circuit Holds that “Diet” Soda Name Is Not False or Misleading By Len Gordon By Ellen Berge, Ari Rothman, and Shaheen Rothermel With the arrival of 2020, many people have begun their New Year’s resolutions to get...
Nov 03, 2019 $40 Million Reasons to Have RCTs By Len Gordon By Len Gordon, Mary Gardner, and Gary Dunn On September 18, 2019, the FTC prevailed in its long-waged battle against Hi-Tech...