Ad Law Access

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

Food Industry Regulatory and Litigation Highlights – June 2021

For our June review, the action stays largely in the litigation arena with vanilla getting thrown out and sustainability as well as settlements getting called into question. Meanwhile, environmental and health…

NAD Addresses Math Problems in Counting Reviews (Again)

Earlier this year, Prose – a company that makes customized haircare products – brought an NAD challenge against Function – a competitor in the same business – over Function’s claims that it had over 110,000 5-star…

Privacy Law Update: Colorado Privacy Bill Becomes Law: How Does it Stack Up Against California and Virginia?

The Colorado Legislature recently passed the Colorado Privacy Act (“ColoPA”), joining Virginia and California as states with comprehensive privacy legislation. Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed the bill ( SB 21-190…

NAD Warns Advertiser Over Exaggerating Advantages

Last week, NAD announced a decision involving a series of AT&T Fiber ads that holds important lessons for companies that make comparative performance claims. Each of the ads depicts a funny scene in which a cable user…

Chopra, Khan, Slaughter Take Control of the Federal Trade Commission

Commissioners Cut Procedures, Rescind Policy, Empower Staff, Target Tech With an unprecedented attack on policies the Federal Trade Commission had long embraced, the new majority of Democratic Commissioners revealed a…