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FTCA Section 13(b) Unfair or Deceptive Trade Practices AMG Capital Management LLC v FTC

Proskauer - Minding Your Business

Without Equitable Monetary Relief, No Need for Asset Freeze or Receivership to Preserve Resources, and More Takeaways from the...

The Eleventh Circuit’s opinion last month in FTC v. On Point Capital Partners LLC, et al.,clarifies the ramifications of the Supreme Court’s ruling in AMG Capital Management regarding the prohibition of equitable monetary...more

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Post-AMG Scorecard: The FTC Pivots to Other Statutory Bases for Monetary Relief

The Supreme Court in AMG foreclosed the FTC’s ability to pursue monetary remedies under Section 13(b) of the FTC Act. That, however, AMG has not stopped the FTC from pursuing monetary relief directly in court, while...more

Proskauer - Advertising Law

Court Considers FTC’s Ability to Seek Monetary Relief Post-AMG

Earlier this year, we blogged about the Supreme Court’s decision in AMG v. FTC, which significantly curtailed the FTC’s ability to seek monetary restitution under Section 13(b) of the FTC Act.  One quick update there: The...more

Hinshaw & Culbertson - Consumer Financial...

Consumer Law Hinsights – May 2021

Consumer Law Hinsights is a monthly compilation of nationwide consumer protection cases of interest to financial services and accounts receivable management companies. SCOTUS Finds FTC Cannot Award Restitution or...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Revealing Potential New Strategy, FTC Teams Up with States After Supreme Court Rules Agency Not Authorized to Seek Monetary...

Last month the Supreme Court dismantled a longstanding FTC enforcement tool in a unanimous decision holding that the FTC Act does not permit the agency to use its authority to seek injunctive relief under Section 13(b) as a...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Why the Supreme Court’s Unanimous FTC Decision Changes Everything

The Supreme Court has just made it significantly more difficult for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to obtain monetary relief in enforcement actions, terminating a practice the FTC has engaged in for decades to exact...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Supreme Court Curbs FTC’s Authority To Seek Monetary Relief in Federal Court — At Least Temporarily

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court decided unanimously in AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC that Section 13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 (FTC Act) does not authorize the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

SCOTUS rules FTC Act Section 13(b) does not authorize FTC to seek restitution or disgorgement

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In a unanimous decision, the U. S. Supreme Court ruled today that Section 13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act (Act) does not authorize the FTC to seek, and a court to award, monetary relief such as restitution or...more

Morgan Lewis

US Supreme Court: FTC Cannot Seek Equitable Monetary Relief in Section 13(b) Cases

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In a unanimous 9-0 decision authored by Justice Breyer, the US Supreme Court has held that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) lacks the authority to seek equitable monetary relief in cases brought in federal court under FTC...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Supreme Court: The FTC – The Chief Federal Agency on Privacy Policy and Enforcement Since the 1970s – May Not Have Ever Had...

While Europe is leveraging hefty fines against violators of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments last month on whether the FTC – the chief federal agency on...more

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