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Stay ADvised: 2025, Issue 7

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 4/4/2025

New Suit Claims "Scientifically False" Pheromone Ads Are "Pure" False Advertising - "It's not myth. It's science." So claims Pure Instinct in its ads for pheromone perfumes. But a new class action lawsuit claims it's not...more

Cleo AI Settles with FTC for $17 Million for Alleged Misleading Practices and Autorenewal Violations

Venable LLP on 4/2/2025

In one of the first settlements since the new administration took office, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a $17 million monetary judgment with Cleo AI to resolve allegations that Cleo violated Section 5 of the...more

First Case Where FTC Charges Company in Gig Economy With Violating the Business Opportunity Rule

Hinch Newman LLP on 7/11/2024

On July 2, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it is taking action against a gig work company for allegedly misleading consumers about the money they could make on the company’s platform and marketing its...more

Stay ADvised: Brand Protection & Advertising Law News - October 2023

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on 10/10/2023

Setting Its Sights on Eye Health Supplement, NAD Finds Health Claims Insufficiently Supported Despite Peer-Reviewed Evidence - The National Advertising Division (NAD) recommended that an eye health supplement maker,...more

FTC Steps Up Scrutiny of Social Media Marketing

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati on 11/20/2017

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has settled its first-ever complaint against social media influencers for deceptive endorsements. According to the FTC’s complaint, Trevor “TmarTn” Martin and Thomas “Syndicate” Cassell, two...more

FTC settles with software provider over misleading customers about encryption of patient data

Robinson+Cole Data Privacy + Security Insider on 1/8/2016

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced on January 5, 2016, that it has agreed to settle an investigation with Henry Schein Practice Solutions, Inc. (Schein), an office management software provider for dental practices...more

Clarification for Class Action Settlements May Be on the Line As Supreme Court Grants Cert in TCPA Case

Proskauer - Advertising Law on 7/19/2015

Last year, in Gomez v. Campbell-Ewald Co., No. 13-55486, 2014 WL 4654478 (9th Cir. Sept. 19, 2014), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that offers of complete relief made to individual plaintiffs under Fed....more

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