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Crowell attorneys attended the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG) 2024 Consumer Protection Spring Conference in San Francisco, California on May 15.

The FTC's ears must have been burning.

In a major development, the States of Missouri, Montana, and Texas have announced their withdrawal from the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG).

One of the many innovations in the Dodd-Frank Act was the inclusion of a prohibition on ‘‘abusive’’ conduct.

On January 18, after approximately fourteen months of settlement negotiations, the CFPB announced that it secured a settlement agreement with BrightSpeed Solutions, Inc., a third-party payment processor...

On Friday, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. signed into law the "Food Allergy Safety, Treatment, Education, and Research Act of 2021," which, most significantly, adds sesame to the list ...

In a decision highlighting the importance of maintaining procedures for complying with the do-not-call (DNC) provisions of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)...

In her December 30, 2025 opinion in National Treasury Employees Union v. Vought (which we blogged about here), Judge Amy Berman Jackson concluded that the CFPB...

As we predicted last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted a final rule that requires a public company to disclose the ratio of the compensation of its CEO to the median compensation of its employees.

On June 2, the FTC was granted a federal court order permanently barring a merchant cash advance operation and its owner from engaging in further deceptive practices and ...

SEC Chair Jay Clayton reviewed progress on the agency's regulatory and policy initiatives.

On June 16, 2014, the SEC issued its first-ever charge of whistleblower retaliation under section 922 of the Dodd-Frank Act.

Today the SEC announced that it is issuing a whistleblower award of over $14 million to a whistleblower who provided information that resulted in the recovery of investor funds.

On December 18, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a staff report (the "Report") on the definition of "accredited investor" set forth in Rule 501(a) of Regulation D under the Securities Act of 1933.

On February 20, 2015, several representatives from the SEC spoke at the Practising Law Institute’s program titled "SEC Speaks in 2015," including Chair Mary Jo White and Commissioner Louis A. Aguilar.

On October 14, 2021, the SEC reopened the period to solicit input from the public on the compensation clawback rules it proposed in 2015 to implement Section 954 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

The United States Supreme Court decided in Digital Realty Trust, Inc. v. Somers (Feb. 21, 2018) that the anti-retaliation provision of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank) applies only to individuals who have reported a violation of the securities law to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and not to those who raise concerns only to their employers internally. The Court's decision resolved an important conflict in the federal Courts of Appeals.