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Price Gouging Enforcement Escalates At Federal and State Levels

Kelley Drye

As a follow-up to our recent posts on price gouging (see here, here, and here ), we noted recent signs that federal and state authorities have escalated their enforcement efforts. On Monday, the President signed…

Retailers Should Keep Price Gouging Laws in Mind

If you’ve been shopping lately, it’s likely that you’ve encountered empty shelves and shortages of items, such as (for inexplicable reasons) toilet paper. This tends to happen whenever a disaster – whether that’s a…

Coronavirus Advertising-Related Enforcement is Ongoing

Kelley Drye

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

Kelley Drye

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…