Ad Law Access

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

AGs Settle Two Car Manufacturer Multistates at the End of 2025 in Multimillion Dollar Enforcement Actions 

Three years have flown by since we last wrote about the letter state AGs sent to Hyundai and Kia over the companies’ lack of anti-theft technology. In response to an alarming rate of thefts and joyrides, including a…

22 State AGs Sue CFPB Acting Director for Loss of Access to CFPB Resources

In 2025, we wrote how Democrat state attorneys general opposed CFPB’s ANPRs reducing CFPB oversight, a bipartisan group of AGs urged the CFPB to distribute consumer refunds, and a Democratic group of AGs filed an…

NAD Decision Provides Guidance on Price Comparisons

Ahold and Lidl are grocery retailers. In a recent challenge before the NAD, Ahold argued that Lidl ads claiming that consumers could save when shopping at Lidl’s stores instead of Ahold’s stores—including Food Lion,…

Important “Robocall” Regulatory Updates: FCC Extends Waiver of TCPA “Revoke All” Rule and Publishes Changes to Robocall Mitigation Database Rules

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) kicked off the new year with back-to-back actions on “robocalls,” illustrating that this likely will continue to be an area of focus for the agency in 2026. These…

NAD Examines AI Claims

At the 2025 ANA Masters of Advertising Law Conference in November, Phyllis Marcus, Vice President of NAD, stated that NAD would closely scrutinize claims related to AI and hinted that new decisions were on the way. The…