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Coronavirus Advertising-Related Enforcement is Ongoing
This post updates an earlier post relating to marketing around the coronavirus. We noted a couple news items this week that help add context to the pervasiveness of and risks related to price gouging enforcement. In…
Read This Before You Market Around Coronavirus
Until recently, most consumers likely associated anything starting with “Corona” with a sunny beach and a lime wedge. Not anymore. The public is rightly concerned about coronavirus and how to avoid catching it. And…
The Boundaries of the FTC’s Section 13(b) Authority: 24 State AGs Weigh In
On January 30 th, 24 State Attorneys General*, led by Kwame Raoul (D) of Illinois, submitted an amici curiae brief in support of the Federal Trade Commission’s position in FTC v. Credit Bureau Center LLC . These…
CFPB Clarifies Standard for Determining “Abusive” Practices
The CFPB announced today a policy statement outlining three new principles that it intends to apply when evaluating whether practices are “abusive” under the Dodd-Frank Act. The Dodd-Frank Act marked the first time…
The Pink Tax: Discrimination or Actual Differentiation?
At the end of 2019, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo released the 10 th proposal of his 2020 State of the State Agenda, which aims to eliminate the so-called “pink tax,” a gender-based pricing phenomenon that allegedly…