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Up until 2012, recreational marijuana was illegal in all 50 states.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has charged an online marketing operation involving about 80 companies with deceptively luring consumers into expensive negative option plans...

Earlier this year, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed a complaint against Amazon alleging that the company engaged in a tremendous variety of "dark patterns" to trick millions...

In response to the growing balance of student loan debt in the United States, lawmakers have proposed legislation that would eliminate the most lender-protective feature of student loans...

The addendum details new protocols that must be implemented in order for a signatory advertiser or agency to impose a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for their commercial productions.

Businesses offering subscription-based products or continuous services must be ready to comply with California's amended automatic renewal law (ARL), which takes effect Friday, July 1st.

The "Negative Option Rule" adopted by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requires sellers to clearly disclose the terms of any negative option plan for the sale of goods before consumers subscribe.

California has recently enacted a law called the Wage Theft Prevention Act (WTPA), which goes into effect on January 1, 2012.

On September 10, 2019, California legislators passed a landmark bill toughening the state's employment classification test for independent contractors.

On March 14, 2019, a federal court in Pennsylvania issued a noteworthy decision that should remind employers to ask if an employee's unexplained absences may be due to medical reasons.

We have previously issued alerts concerning the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) rule banning most employee and independent contractor non-competes (the Rule) (May 6, 2024, January 26, 2023) and come to you now with a major update.

On May 31, 2017, the Second Circuit revived discrimination claims against two out-of-state...

The Low Income Support Obligation and Performance Improvement Act (the Act) now requires employers of individuals working in New York state to provide information on the availability of dependent health insurance benefits to their employees.

Last week, Joseph Cioffi was a featured speaker at the iiBig 10th Annual Education Finance & Loan Symposium in Alexandria, Virginia. He participated in a panel regarding the latest trends...

Under new regulations that go into effect later this month, most issuers of asset-backed securities (ABS) will be required to retain a percentage economic interest in the collateral they securitize.

Subprime auto's long, smooth ride through the pandemic, recession, and changes in administrations has come to a screeching halt with the chapter 7 bankruptcy of Tricolor on September 10, 2025.

Over the past half-decade, Congress and the courts have made aggressive efforts to curb the worst abuses of the patent system. In 2013, Congress

In an important decision concerning the enforceability of an arbitration clause included in a mobile app's Terms of Service, the federal appeals court in New York recently found ...