Increasingly, influencers are being used by social media-savvy advertisers to encourage consumers to buy their products. And it works: these influencers have an outsized impact on what we buy. In this week’s podcast Meghan...more
On Tuesday, November 7, the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) held its Fall 2023 Consumer Protection Conference in Washington, D.C., welcoming representatives from 43 state AG offices, the FTC, and an equal...more
On Wednesday, November 2, the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) opened its Fall 2022 Consumer Protection conference in Washington, D.C., welcoming representatives from 27 state AG offices and just as many...more
On July 12 and 13, the National Association of Attorneys General hosted the 2022 Robocall Summit in Detroit, Michigan. The event brought together representatives from almost 40 state AG offices, attorneys from the FTC, FCC...more
The National Association of Attorneys General’s biennial Consumer Protection Conference always provides a fascinating deep dive into the minds and priorities of state attorney general consumer protection staff, and of the...more
Meghan Stoppel, who spent over a decade serving as an Assistant Attorney General, and later a Consumer Protection Chief, to both Democratic and Republican state attorneys generals, talks to Andy Baer, Chair of Cozen...more
Selling web users’ personal data is big business — with a projected worth of $400 billion by 2025. In industries as diverse as health insurance and automobile manufacturing, companies that collect and aggregate user data to...more
The State AG Report – 7.22.2021 Here are last week’s curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: Drug...more
7/27/2021
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Decriminalization of Marijuana ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Johnson & Johnson ,
Opioid ,
Petroleum ,
PFAS ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Robocalling ,
State Attorneys General ,
Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act (TCFAPA) ,
Telemarketing Sales Rule
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has, for decades, considered itself a partner of state AGs in combatting anticompetitive, unfair, and deceptive trade practices, and state AGs certainly feel the same way. In December 2020,...more
6/3/2021
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Corporate Counsel ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Enforcement Authority ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
FOIA ,
FTC Act ,
FTCA Section 13(b) ,
Injunctive Relief ,
SCOTUS ,
State Attorneys General