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Litigation, mainly under state and federal statutes, focused most often on breach of warranty and failure to warn.
By Maydeen Merino | April 1, 2024
"Many non-chair commissioners think they would be better than the chair, so you have to work hard to maintain their commitment to a program, you have to engage them," said former FTC chair William Kovacic.
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By Maria Dinzeo | March 29, 2024
The Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are worried that the growing use of algorithms is making price fixing increasingly difficult to detect—and that the use of AI to create ever-more-sophisticated algorithms will exacerbate that challenge.
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By Susan Shin and Claudia Wilner | March 28, 2024
New York should enact the Consumer and Small Business Protection Act as an urgent matter of racial and economic justice, two guest columnists write.
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By Colleen Murphy | March 25, 2024
"Indeed, the Appellate Division found here—and defendant SPARC Group LLC does not contest—that defendant's conduct violates the CFA," Justice Lee A. Solomon said. "However, to state a CFA claim, private plaintiffs ... must show that they suffered an 'ascertainable loss of moneys or property, real or personal, as a result of the use or employment by another person of any practice declared unlawful under' the CFA."
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By Riley Brennan | March 25, 2024
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani for the District of Massachusetts found that the plaintiff, Mark Schotte, sufficiently plead a likelihood of future injury in order to establish standing or injunctive and declaratory relief, after he alleged he would be interested in purchasing the wipes again if Stop & Shop ensured they were actually flushable.
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By Chris O'Malley | March 25, 2024
"Coming from an in-house perspective, the last thing you want is a letter on your desk from the government that is entitled 'Notice of Proposed Penalty Offense,'" said Sarah La Voi, a partner at Baker & Hostetler.
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By Maydeen Merino | March 22, 2024
"If we end up finding that these types of practices violate any of the antitrust laws ... I know I'll be very interested in making sure we take swift action," FTC Chair Lina Khan said.
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By Allison Dunn | March 18, 2024
Associate Justice Gregory I. Massing said that Fairfield Inn's alleged knowledge about the plaintiffs' business stay and its "failure to tell them in advance that they could not do business there was unlike neglecting to warn that an elliptical machine in the hotel gym was out of order, and more akin to neglecting to tell arriving guests that rooms are not furnished with beds."
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By Allison Dunn | March 15, 2024
"In the case of the plaintiff, she had to get money out of her retirement account to make payroll, purchase medications for patients and pay operating expenses because they were unable to get claims either pre-authorized, or if they were submitted, they weren't able to get them paid," Thomas A. Zimmerman, Jr., a Chicago-based attorney at the Zimmerman Law Offices told Law.com. "This is causing a tremendous financial burden on the healthcare providers."
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By Amanda Bronstad | March 14, 2024
An Illinois jury awarded $60 million on Wednesday in the first verdict involving cow's milk-based infant formula that allegedly has sickened or killed premature babies who contracted a gastrointestinal inflammation called necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC.
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