Consumer Protection Law and Regulations

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)'s strengthened consumer protection powers took effect in April 2025. For the first time, the CMA gained direct powers to determine breaches of consumer law...

On November 17, 2025, Melissa Holyoak departed the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to serve as Interim United States Attorney for the District of Utah. Holyoak had served as an FTC Commissioner since March 2024.

On November 17, the FTC announced a final court order permanently banning a small-business financing company and its chief executive from offering business financing, debt relief, and credit repair services and imposing a $48,280,328 monetary judgment to resolve allegations of unfair or deceptive acts or practices under the Federal Trade Commission Act

As students return to campus this Fall, university leaders are stepping into a new semester following two notable Title IX developments this year. In January, a federal court overturned the Biden administration's updated regulations, sending schools back to the stricter 2020 rulebook.

On November 13, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education proposed adding the "Admissions and Consumer Transparency Supplement (ACTS)" to IPEDS, narrowing applicability...

Smart Start is A&O Shearman's flagship social mobility program, run in partnership with Causeway Education.

On November 17, the FTC announced a final court order permanently banning a small-business financing company and its chief executive from offering business financing, debt relief, and credit repair services and imposing a $48,280,328 monetary judgment to resolve allegations of unfair or deceptive acts or practices under the Federal Trade Commission Act

Issued on November 10, 2025, the long-awaited decision from the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit in National Association of Industrial Bankers v. Weiser supports Colorado's exercise...

On November 10, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit issued an opinion reversing a district court's order that the State of Colorado...

The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)'s strengthened consumer protection powers took effect in April 2025. For the first time, the CMA gained direct powers to determine breaches of consumer law...

On November 17, 2025, Melissa Holyoak departed the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to serve as Interim United States Attorney for the District of Utah. Holyoak had served as an FTC Commissioner since March 2024.

Companies marketing by text/SMS don't just have to worry about the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act and Telemarketing Sales Rule.