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On July 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacated a rule issued by the FTC that sought to expand the negative option rule to cover modern forms of negative option marketing in media, following challenges...more
Just days before the “Click to Cancel” negative option rule was to go into effect, the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the rule in its entirety. As explained in our previous alert, the rule, which would have gone into...more
On July 8, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s (“FTC”) Click to Cancel Rule (the “Rule”), which was previously scheduled to take effect on May 14, 2025, and later...more
Federal officials just postponed enforcement of the Click-to-Cancel rule, which requires businesses offering subscriptions or memberships to provide a cancellation process as straightforward as the sign-up procedure. The...more
Ending speculation and uncertainty about whether new leadership at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) would repeal or continue to defend the agency’s Negative Option Rule, which regulates offerings such as autorenewal of...more
Tuesday, President Trump fired the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission, Commissioners Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter. President Trump’s action leaves Chair Andrew Ferguson (R) and Commissioner...more
Last week, a security services company and several trade groups filed their merits brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit challenging the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) newly adopted Negative Option Rule,...more
With a Republican majority soon to be at the helm of the Federal Trade Commission, businesses are watching closely to see whether and how the regulatory landscape will shift. In this post, we break down ten things we, as...more
On February 4, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit struck down the FTC’s Combating Auto Retail Scams Trade Regulation Rule (CARS Rule), which aimed to address deceptive practices such as bait-and-switch tactics...more
There are generally two paths that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) takes for rulemaking. First, there may be a specific statute that gives the FTC specific rulemaking authority, such as the Children’s Online Privacy...more
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down the FTC’s controversial CARS Rule, saying that the commission violated its own procedural rules by failing to issue an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPRM”) before...more
Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a significant opinion vacating the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Combating Auto Retail Scams Trade Regulation Rule (CARS Rule). The decision came in...more
After much conversation, it is now official. Andrew Ferguson is the new chair of the Federal Trade Commission and Lina Khan is not, though she remains until January 31....more
As part of a flurry of activity this week before the change in its leadership, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced proposed rulemakings regarding deceptive earnings claims by multilevel marketers and money-making...more
The administrative challenge brought by the National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) and another trade association against the Combating Auto Retail Scams (“CARS”) Trade Regulation Rule, issued last year by the Federal...more
Generally speaking, investigatory procedures, including use of compulsory process, may be used by Federal Trade Commission (FTC) attorneys in connection with the spectrum of activities that the agency is authorized or...more
Federal Trade Commission. Deceptive real estate listings. On April 3, 2024, FTC announced close to $62 million in refunds for consumers misled by deceptive marketing and advertising practices used by Opendoor Labs, Inc., an...more
We’ve written a lot about Federal Trade Commission (FTC or the Commission) Rulemaking recently, but that doesn’t mean there can’t still be new and interesting things that occur. Take, for example, the FTC’s recent...more
The FTC has become big on the late December surprise. In late December 2022, the agency announced the health claims guidance, which was quite a big deal for advertisers. This December there were two late December...more
The accelerating advances in artificial intelligence (“AI”) and the practical, legal, and policy issues AI creates have exponentially increased the federal government’s interest in AI and its implications. In these weekly...more
On May 31, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) requested public comment on a petition for rulemaking it received from six national consumer advocate groups regarding “yo-yo sales,” a term the groups use to refer to...more
The following document provides a monthly roundup summarizing enforcement actions, guidance, rulemakings, and other public statements from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission regarding...more
GoodRx Faces Million Dollar Proposed Penalty from FTC in First Enforcement Action Under the Health Breach Notification Rule - Settlement reveals views on application of unfairness authority to sharing of sensitive...more
On January 5, the Federal Trade Commission caught the attention of employers across the country by issuing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). The proposed rule would ban the vast majority of non-compete clauses used in...more
On January 5, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) proposed an expansive new rule which would impose a near-complete ban on the use of noncompetes (the “Proposed Rule”) by employers. The Proposed Rule is the...more