Nov 21, 2024 Marketing to Children: An Excerpt from the Advertising Law Tool Kit By Melissa Steinman Join us as we spotlight select chapters of Venable’s popular Advertising Law Tool Kit, which helps marketing teams navigate the legal...
Jul 18, 2024 Taking Out the Trash: New Junk Fee Laws Impact Pricing Practices By Paavana Kumar Ashley Haripal We are about to see an enormous uptick in federal and state regulation of “junk fees” – and the class action bar is undoubtedly preparing...
Jun 10, 2024 Telemarketing Trial: Defendant Sweeps All Six Claims Against the FTC and Pennsylvania AG By Len Gordon Michael Munoz It’s not often we see defendants win a resounding victory against the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and/or state attorneys general,...
Feb 15, 2024 Unpacking the FTC’s Negative Option Rule Informal Hearing By Len Gordon Shahin Rothermel Michael Munoz The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently held its informal hearing on the proposed amendments to the Negative Option Rule. Clearly on...
Jul 05, 2023 14 Years in the Making: FTC Unveils Updated FTC Endorsement Guides By Paavana Kumar Allison Fitzpatrick Alexa Meera Singh Today, the FTC announced its newly revised and long-awaited Endorsement Guides, which aim to update and clarify previous guidance...
Jun 02, 2023 Talking Trash: Takeaways from FTC Workshop on Recyclable Claims By Ronald Urbach Alexa Meera Singh The FTC is in the process of reviewing – and potentially revising – its Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims (Green...
Jun 02, 2022 Twitter Will Pay $150 Million to Settle Charges That It Misrepresented Its Privacy and Security Practices By Len Gordon By Leonard L. Gordon & Joshua Nace Last month, the United States Department of Justice, acting on behalf of the Federal Trade...
May 23, 2022 FTC Approves Request for Public Comment on Updates to Endorsements and Testimonials Guides By Len Gordon Alexandra Megaris The Federal Trade Commission’s May 2022 open meeting, Alvaro Bedoya’s first since being sworn in as the agency’s fifth commissioner on...
Nov 10, 2021 FTC’s Notice of Penalty Offenses: What Do They Mean for You? By Ellen Berge Eric Berman Alexandra Megaris Melissa Steinman Shahin Rothermel +2 more... Show less The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently issued Notices of Penalty Offenses regarding for-profit education, endorsements and...
Oct 13, 2021 FTC Invokes Penalty Offense Authority to Crack Down on For-Profit Education Industry By Len Gordon Ellen Berge Jonathan Pompan Alexandra Megaris +1 more... Show less In the latest example of its creative use of different enforcement tools to obtain monetary relief in the wake of the Supreme Court’s AMG...