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Updates on advertising law and privacy law trends, issues, and developments

The FTC’s Policy Statements, Reports, and Warning Letters: Why Are There So Many?

The FTC has long used policy statements, public workshops, reports, and warning letters to influence the marketplace and communicate its thinking about key issues and aspects of its mission. Examples from my tenure at…

California Bans PFAS “Forever Chemicals” in Clothing, Textiles, and Cosmetics

California joined the growing list of states to ban products containing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) when, on September 29th, Governor Newsom signed into law legislation prohibiting the so-called…

Washington AG Signals Enforcement on Automatic Renewals

Earlier this week, we posted that a plaintiff filed a proposed class action against the NFL over its automatic renewal practices. The complaint alleges that the NFL used “ dark patterns ” to enroll consumers in its…

New Study Identifies Over 57,000 Sites “Presumptively Contaminated” with PFAS

Joe Green and Steve Humphreys wrote on our sister blog, Kelley Green Law : A new paper from Northeastern University’s PFAS Project Lab and researchers from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences…

NFL Hit with Automatic Renewal Lawsuit (and Hyperbole)

Last week, a plaintiff filed a proposed class action against the NFL over its automatic renewal practices. The plaintiff alleges that the company used deceptive practices to automatically subscribe its Game Pass users…