10.05.17
Making good on her promise to focus on concrete consumer injury, Acting Chair of the Federal Trade Commission Maureen K. Ohlhausen announced a December workshop on “informational injury.”
Amazon successfully moved a putative class action challenging its pricing practices to arbitration after the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit held that the retailer’s agreement was not unconscionable.
A jury will decide if the term “Comic-Con” is generic after a federal court judge in California recently denied summary judgment in favor of the trademark holders.
10.02.17
Macy’s rules prohibiting the disclosure of confidential customer information didn’t violate Section 8 of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the majority of a panel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determined, and employees would not reasonably construe the rules as ...
09.28.17
A putative class action alleging that Kona Brewing Co. tricked consumers into believing its beer line is locally brewed in Hawaii will move forward after a California federal court judge denied the advertiser’s motion to dismiss.
In the agency’s first cases enforcing the European Union-United States Privacy Shield framework, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) settled with three companies that falsely claimed they were certified to participate in the data-sharing agreement.
Just weeks after it was announced, the Equifax data breach has already resulted in multiple class action lawsuits, state attorneys general actions, and a renewed call to pass uniform, national data breach legislation.
After concluding that the plaintiff in Robins v. Spokeo has Article III standing to pursue his case, the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit may be considering a similar issue in the context of the Video Privacy Protection Act.
As the Equifax data breach continues to reverberate—with multiple class actions filed, calls to revamp the credit reporting industry and new legislation proposed—even the arbitration rules of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) may see an impact.
In the wake of a scandal involving a national bank that allegedly opened millions of accounts without the consent of consumers, the California legislature has passed a bill that would prohibit the application of mandatory arbitration clauses to bank accounts that were created fraudulently.