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Shielding Against the Mass Arbitration Surge: Strategies to Mitigate Risk

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Mass arbitration is posing significant challenges for businesses, as it creates a new battleground in dispute resolution with the potential to overwhelm companies with a flood of simultaneous claims. Consumer-facing companies...more

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CFPB Proposes Rule to Protect Consumers from Unfair Contract Clauses

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On January 13, 2025, the CFPB announced a proposed rule aimed at prohibiting companies from including in consumer agreements terms that operate to waive consumers’ legal rights, allow companies to unilaterally change key...more

Venable LLP

Your 2024 Outlook: California’s Enforcement Trends and New State Laws Governing Automatic Renewal Programs

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It’s that time of year again. Regardless of what you call them—subscriptions, negative option programs, automatic renewals, or continuous service offers—states are continuing to enact and enforce new laws with increasingly...more

Hudson Cook, LLP

New Jersey Reaches Consent Order with Yellowstone Capital Regarding MCA Agreements

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On December 27, 2022, New Jersey's Attorney General and Office of Consumer Protection and Yellowstone Capital, LLC and several other associate companies signed a consent order to resolve a lawsuit that alleged violations of...more

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Washington AG Surveys Consumers About Auto-Renewal Subscription Services With Enforcement Actions Likely to Follow

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On October 10, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson issued a consumer alert, sharing a consumer survey that revealed 59% of Washingtonians may have unintentionally enrolled in subscription plans. The press release...more

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CFPB/NY AG lawsuit against RD Legal Funding may signal greater scrutiny of non-loan financial products such as merchant cash...

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The CFPB and the New York Attorney General this week filed an action against RD Legal Funding, LLC, two of its affiliates, and their principal (collectively, “RD”), alleging that a litigation settlement advance product...more

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