4/15/2026 2:27:02 PM FTC Warns Auto Dealers: Advertised Vehicle Prices Must Include Mandatory Fees By Len Gordon Eden Caliendo The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it is sending warning letters to 97 auto dealership groups nationwide, reminding them that...
4/15/2026 2:07:48 PM Event in Review | 12th Advertising Law Symposium By Shahin Rothermel Len Gordon On March 12, Venable’s Advertising and Marketing Group hosted its 12th Advertising Law Symposium in Washington, DC, bringing together...
4/14/2026 5:31:43 PM Alaska AG Enters Into $800K Settlement With Car Dealer Group By Jeff Greenbaum Last month, Alaska Attorney General Stephen J. Cox announced that his office entered into a settlement with a group of Swickard car...
4/5/2026 8:20:40 PM Auto Dealer Group Agrees to Pay More Than $3M, and Consumer Redress, to Resolve Charges of Deceptive Pricing By Jeff Greenbaum The Federal Trade Commission and the Maryland Attorney General announced that they reached a settlement with Lindsay Automotive Group and...
3/15/2026 7:20:49 PM FTC Warns Auto Dealers About Pricing Practices By Jeff Greenbaum Last week, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it sent letters to ninety-seven auto dealership groups, warning them about their...
1/10/2026 10:51:47 PM Menards Enters Into Multi-State Settlement Over Rebate and Pricing Practices By Jeff Greenbaum Right before the holidays, the big-box retailer Menards entered into an Assurance of Voluntary Compliance with the Attorneys General of...
1/6/2026 6:01:17 PM FTC Begins Rulemaking on Unfair Rental Housing Fees After Issuing Warning Letters By Len Gordon Jay Prapaisilp This week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Bureau of Consumer Protection issued 13 warning letters to rental housing management...
1/4/2026 8:05:13 PM Alaska AG Settles with Car Dealers Over Pricing Practices By Jeff Greenbaum Late last month, Alaska Attorney General Stephen Cox announced that the Alaska Department of Law entered into a settlement with Lithia...
12/28/2025 10:14:36 PM Some Tips for 2026 From the Frankfurt Kurnit Advertising Group By Jeff Greenbaum As we head into 2026, here are some thoughts from the Frankfurt Kurnit Advertising Group about some of the key issues that advertisers...
12/16/2025 2:08:40 PM When is "Members-Only Pricing" Deceptive? By Jeff Greenbaum Members of Safeway's rewards program – Safeway for U – get members-only prices on various products offered for sale in the store. The...
2/19/2025 3:16:22 PM Can You Add Advertising to an Ad-Free Service? By Jeff Greenbaum When consumers subscribe to Amazon Prime, they get free shipping, access to Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Music, and other benefits. Up...
1/28/2025 7:33:18 PM FTC and Illinois Attorney General Settle with Grubhub for Deceptive Practices By Len Gordon By Leonard L. Gordon & Ellis McKennie The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Illinois attorney general announced a settlement with...
1/28/2025 7:27:08 PM FTC Issues Scaled-Back Final Fee Rule Targeting Live-Event Tickets and Short-Term Lodging By Len Gordon Ellen Berge Shahin Rothermel Jay Prapaisilp +1 more... Show less In December, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its long-awaited Final Rule on Unfair or Deceptive Fees. When the FTC released the...
12/28/2024 6:41:25 PM Some Tips From the Frankfurt Kurnit Advertising Group for 2025 By Jeff Greenbaum As we race toward 2025, here are some thoughts from members of the Frankfurt Kurnit Advertising Group about some of the big issues to...
11/27/2024 10:55:44 AM CMA finds that supermarket loyalty schemes offer essentially genuine savings on your essentials By Geraint Lloyd-Taylor Imagine walking into your favourite supermarket, loyalty card in hand, and knowing that the discounts you’re getting are not just a...
10/16/2024 3:55:38 PM Democrats Raise Possibility of Federal Price Gouging Ban With FTC By Jeff Greenbaum Asserting that “[p]rice gouging laws are a widely used, important tool to protect consumers from corporate wrongdoing,” a group of...