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Casino Patron Out of Luck On Her New Jersey TCCWNA Claim
The mid-level New Jersey appellate court issued an important decision last week under the state’s Truth-in-Consumer Contract and Warranty Notification Act (“TCCWNA”). The biggest TCCWNA issues, including to what extent…
Groups Urge FTC to Act on Influencer Campaigns
This week, four groups – Public Citizen, Commercial Alert, the Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, and the Center for Digital Democracy – sent a joint letter to FTC encouraging the agency to “investigate and…
NAD Revisits Crowd-Sourced Substantiation
Traditionally, when companies wanted to advertise that consumers preferred their product over another product, the companies would substantiate their claim by running a survey. Consumers would be stopped in a mall,…
Ninth Circuit Decision in AT&T “Throttling” Case May Reset Boundaries Between FTC and FCC Jurisdiction
On Monday, August 29, 2016, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion that may dramatically alter the boundaries between the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) and Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC)…
NAD Worries Consumers Will Jump To Wrong Conclusions Over Trampoline Reviews
A growing number of consumers read reviews before they decide to purchase a product. Because of this – as we’ve posted various times – regulators and competitors are keeping a watchful on eye reviews that seem biased…