W almart has agreed to a $100 million judgment to settle allegations by the Federal Trade Commission and 11 states that the company caused delivery drivers to lose earnings, by deceiving them about the base pay, incentive pay, and tips they could earn. The FTC estimates that Walmart delivery drivers Read More
President Trump and his administration filed a response to a lawsuit claiming that the President went beyond his presidential authority in firing two Federal Trade Commission members without cause. The foundation of President Trump’s response is that the President is allowed to remove “all those who aid the President in Read More
The Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against Uber, alleging the rideshare and delivery company charged consumers for its Uber One subscription service without their consent, failed to deliver promised savings, and made it difficult for users to cancel the service despite its “cancel anytime” promises. According to the FTC, Read More
President Trump fired two Democratic commissioners, Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter, from the Federal Trade Commission, a move that reflects his broader effort to assert control over administrative agencies and reshape the federal government. Trump’s firing has mainly come under question due to the 110-year-old precedential case of Humphrey’s Executor Read More
The Federal Trade Commission announced that it is requiring H&R Block to make a number of changes for the 2025 tax filing season in addition to longer-term changes. The settlement also requires the company to pay $7 million to be used to compensate its customers that were harmed by the Read More
The Federal Trade Commission announced that it has finalized a Junk Fees Rule which essentially prohibits businesses in the live-event ticketing and short-term lodging industries from using bait-and-switch pricing and other tactics used to hide total prices and bury “junk fees.” The rule will ensure that pricing information is provided Read More
In April 2023, the Federal Trade Commission announced that that it would be banning noncompete agreements in order to promote competition. Although this historic announcement was meant to change the entire landscape of the employment industry within the U.S., the FTC’s push to ban these agreements raised much skepticism from Read More
As a result of the Federal Trade Commission’s investigation, the Department of Justice sued TikTok and its parent company ByteDance with flagrantly violating a children’s privacy law—the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act—and also alleged they infringed an existing FTC 2019 consent order against TikTok for violating COPPA. The complaint alleges Read More
The Federal Trade Commission issued orders to eight companies offering surveillance pricing products and services that incorporate data about consumers’ characteristics and behavior. The orders seek information about the potential impact these practices have on privacy, competition, and consumer protection. The orders are aimed at helping the FTC better understand the dense Read More
The Federal Trade Commission announced that it is holding online used car dealer Vroom responsible for misrepresenting that it thoroughly examined all vehicles before listing them for sale and failing to obtain consumers’ consent to shipment delays or provide prompt refunds when cars weren’t delivered in the time Vroom promised. Read More
