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New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed into law The Consumer Credit Fairness Act.

The declaration, which goes into effect today, makes it temporarily illegal to drastically increase the prices of those products.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio appointed Peter Hatch as Commissioner of New York City's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, which is the largest municipal consumer protection agency in the country.

The New York State Department of Financial Services announced that it has created a new Consumer Protection and Financial Enforcement Division.

Smaller reporting companies are subject to say-on-pay and say-on- frequency votes for the first time this year.

Title IV of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Act") set forth, among other regulatory changes, a revised net worth test for a natural person to qualify as an "accredited investor" for purposes of Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the primary private placement exemption relied on by investment advisers managing private investment funds).

Staff in the Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations issued a National Exam Program Risk Alert announcing that it is examining registered investment advisers and registered broker-dealers...

The one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in AMG Capital Management, LLC v. FTC has renewed calls for Congressional action to expand and codify...

The Senate Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety and Data Security held its second hearing in less than a year on COVID-19 fraud, price gouging, and related...

On December 20, 2021, a bipartisan group of 33 AGs, led by Idaho AG Lawrence Wasden and Oregon AG Ellen Rosenblum, sent a letter to the Director of the CFPB in response...

For the first time in two years, State Attorneys General and their key consumer protection staff have gathered in Washington D.C. to attend the National Association of Attorneys General Fall Consumer Protection conference.

On December 16, 2019, the United States Supreme Court declined to review Krakauer v. Dish Network LLC, thus leaving unresolved a circuit split regarding Article III

The Federal Trade Commission recently settled with Florida-based company Inbound Call Experts on December 22 for deceiving thousands of consumers with its telemarketing scheme.

The complaint seeks injunctive relief, civil money penalties, and attorneys' fees and costs.

The late Justice Antonin Scalia, in a 2013 interview with New York Magazine, said that "[a] lot of stuff that's stupid is not unconstitutional."

On February 3, 2017, President Donald Trump signed an executive order to delay the implementation of the Department of Labor's Fiduciary Rule.

In May, we published a blogpost about the INFORM Consumers Act and its upcoming (now imminent) effective date of June 27, 2023. As that date grows closer, online marketplaces...