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AGs Ask Congress to Take Further Action on ORC
If you have been following our blogs, it should be no surprise that the Attorneys General remain focused on combatting Organized Retail Crime (ORC) using available state and federal tools.
The Attorneys General of Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, and South Carolina co-led a bipartisan letter joined by 34 other Attorneys General (AGs) to encourage Congress to help "combat the nationwide organized retail crime epidemic" as retailers across the country have been forced to close stores due to financial losses and physical dangers from crime. These store closures, the AGs explain, often result in underrepresented communities losing access to necessary consumer goods.
Multistate Coalition Files Amicus Brief Warning Against Efforts to Dismantle the CFPB
Last week, a coalition of all 23 democratic attorneys general filed an amicus brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland warning against efforts by the Trump Administration to defund and disband the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). The brief comes in the wake of the outgoing CFPB's call for state action, in a foreshadowing of events to come.
NAD Holds Celebrity Social Media Posts Need Disclosures
Under the FTC's Endorsement Guides, influencers and celebrities have to disclose any material connection they have to the brands they promote "when a significant minority of the audience for an endorsement does not understand or expect the connection." That leaves open the possibility that there are instances in which a connection is so obvious to almost everyone, that it doesn't need a disclosure. A pair of recent NAD cases show how just how narrow that exception is.
NARB Disagrees with NAD on who the "Big Guys" Are
As its first policy initiative under Chair Andrew Ferguson, the FTC announced a Request for Information (RFI) "to better understand how technology platforms deny or degrade users' access to services based on the content of their speech or affiliations, and how this conduct may have violated the law."
FTC Takes Step to End "Tyranny of Big Tech" with RFI
As its first policy initiative under Chair Andrew Ferguson, the FTC announced a Request for Information (RFI) "to better understand how technology platforms deny or degrade users' access to services based on the content of their speech or affiliations, and how this conduct may have violated the law."
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