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Wiley Rein LLP

Expanding Patchwork of State “Junk Fees” Laws Presents Compliance Challenges

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State laws regulating disclosures of fees and “total prices” have expanded, and we start our series of state consumer protection alerts with a deeper dive on key compliance obligations for these fee disclosure laws. These...more

Shipkevich PLLC

Connecticut Enacts Broad Amendments to Money Transmission Law Targeting Virtual Currency and Digital Assets

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Connecticut has enacted Public Act 25-66 (the “Act”), a substantial modernization of its Money Transmission Act (“MTA”) that brings digital wallets, virtual currency activity, and youth-oriented money-sharing applications...more

Klein Moynihan Turco LLP

TCPA Caller Identification Defenses

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On July 16, 2025, the United District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania issued a noteworthy decision in Newell v. JR Capital, LLC. Among other claims, Plaintiff alleged that Defendant violated the Telephone...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

CFPB Terminates 2023 Consent Order Against a National Consumer Reporting Agency for Alleged Security Freeze Violations

On November 3, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau terminated its 2023 consent order against a national consumer reporting agency. The original order, issued in October 2023, required more than three million...more

Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Leçons du Royaume Uni : Réformes possibles des responsabilités des banques canadiennes en matière de prévention de la fraude

Les cas de fraude continuent d’augmenter au Canada : selon de récentes données de Statistique Canada, les affaires de fraude déclarées par la police ont augmenté de 12 % entre 2022 et 2023. Cette statistique se rapporte à la...more

Cozen O'Connor

Minnesota AG Goes All In to Shut Down Allegedly Illegal Gambling Sites

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Minnesota AG Keith Ellison sent letters to 14 operators of allegedly illegal gambling websites directing them to stop offering online gambling to Minnesota residents, citing potential violations of state consumer protection...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Colorado’s Medical Debt Reporting Law Challenged in Federal Court

On November 5, 2025, a national debt collection trade group and one of its members filed a lawsuit against the state of Colorado’s in an attempt to block its 2023 medical debt credit reporting law, HB 23-1126. The complaint...more

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Texas AG Declares Game Over for Roblox in Child Safety Lawsuit

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Texas AG Ken Paxton sued the Roblox Corporation, which operates a popular online gaming platform used predominantly by children and teens, alleging violations of state and federal consumer protection and online safety laws....more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Pennsylvania Attorney General Secures $750,000 Settlement Over “Negative Option” Collectibles Sales

On October 30, the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General announced a $750,000 settlement with a collectibles company resolving allegations that the business used deceptive “negative option” subscription features in...more

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Needle Little Transparency: Alabama AG Targets Research-Grade GLP-1s

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Alabama AG Steve Marshall obtained a temporary restraining order against Aurora IV and Wellness, an infusion clinic, and its owners in a case alleging that they administered research-grade weight loss drugs without patients’...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Point-of-Sale Finance Series: Understanding the Development and Regulation of Buy Now, Pay Later Products - Payments Pros – The...

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In this crossover episode of Payments Pros and The Consumer Finance Podcast, guest host Taylor Gess is joined by Jason Cover and Jeremy Sairsingh to discuss buy now, pay later (BNPL) products as they continue to dive into the...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

What the Ninth Circuit Ruling on the Mandatory GMO Labeling Rule Means for F+B Businesses

On October 31, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided a case challenging the United States Department of Agriculture's ("USDA") mandatory labeling rule for bioengineered foods. The decision in Natural Grocers et al. v....more

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

"Post Mortem Review of AT&T Breaches"

Data breaches occur when an unauthorized individual or entity gains access to confidential or protected information. This information may include personal data such as Social Security numbers or medical records, financial...more

Moore & Van Allen PLLC

CFPB Enjoined from Enforcing Personal Financial Data Rights Rule 1033

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On October 29th, the Eastern District of Kentucky (the “Court”) enjoined the CFPB from enforcing the Personal Financial Data Rights Rule (the “Rule”) until it has completed its reconsideration of the Rule. The Rule had been...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Tenth Circuit Narrows Scope of State Bank Rate Preemption

On November 10, the U.S Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit reversed a district court decision that had enjoined the State of Colorado from enforcing its state usury laws against state-chartered banks located outside of...more

GeoDataVision

FDIC Announces Big Change to Consumer Compliance Exam Frequency

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A golden opportunity has been lost - On November 7, the FDIC announced a change to the consumer compliance examination cycle....more

Mayer Brown

DIDMCA Opt-Out Update—Tenth Circuit Reverses Colorado Preliminary Injunction

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Litigation involving Colorado’s opt-out from the interest exportation provisions of the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980 (DIDMCA) has taken an adverse turn for the financial services...more

Holland & Knight LLP

5 New California Consumer Protection Laws: What Businesses Need to Know

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In October 2025, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law multiple new pieces of legislation with the goal of strengthening consumer protections in California and alleviating financial burdens on working families....more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

Update: US EPA’s Proposed Revisions to the TSCA PFAS Reporting Rule

As previously reported, US EPA is in the process of revising the TSCA Section 8(a)(7) PFAS Reporting rule. On Monday, the agency released the proposed revision language which includes the ‘typical’ reporting exemptions of the...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Recycling Old Tricks: State AGs Probe Plastics Industry Collusion in Latest ESG Probe

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This month, the attorneys general of Florida, Texas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Montana sent letters to various environmental groups expressing ​“collective concern” about potentially anti-competitive recycling practices....more

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Cosmetics Industry Regulatory Challenges Accelerate

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The past three years have marked the most significant expansion of cosmetic industry oversight since 1938. The updates below outline key provisions of the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022 (“MoCRA”) and...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

What We Learned from … South Carolina: Leveling the Playing Field in Consumer Protection

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South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and Jared Libet, Assistant Deputy Attorney General in the Consumer Protection Unit, recently joined a Kelley Drye webinar to discuss the core philosophy behind their office’s...more

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The New Wave of Web Tracking Litigation: Wiretap Statutes, VPPA Risk, and Consent Strategies — The Consumer Finance Podcast

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In this episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast, Chris Willis is joined by colleagues Jason Manning, Angelo Stio, and Rob Jenkin to unpack the surge of litigations arising from the use of tracking technologies (e.g., cookies,...more

Hinch Newman LLP

Lead Gen Terms Ruled Insufficient to Enforce Arbitration Agreement

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The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently affirmed a lower court ruling that a TCPA related arbitration clause contained in a lead generator’s online terms and conditions was unenforceable against a consumer....more

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This Update Won’t Last Long!! Recent Litigation Targets Misleading Email Subject Lines

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If your inbox has ever shouted “Last Chance!” only to whisper “Extended One More Day” the next morning, you’re not alone. And neither are the marketers behind those messages, who now find themselves facing a recent wave of...more

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