As regular readers of the blog know, Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Finance Monitor podcast often interviews consumer legal scholars about their scholarship. Consequently, Alan Kaplinsky is always on the lookout for articles to feature on the podcast. If you have an article that you think might be of interest to Consumer Finance Monitor podcast listeners, please […]
Last week, the Trump Administration finally got around to posting its Spring 2025 semiregulatory agenda. Among the notable consumer-related items, the Department of Transportation intends to withdraw an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued by the last administration that was considering regulations relating to compensation, rebooking, and accommodations for delays and cancellations that were within […]
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The National Association of Attorneys General sent a letter Monday to Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Open AI, and other AI companies, warning that state AGs would enforce their respective laws to protect children against illicit AI practices. The letter, signed by 44 jurisdictions, highlighted the recent news that Meta had approved the use of “AI […]
Many commercial websites have adopted the use of “session-replay” technology, by which embedded code on a website records the visitor’s communications within that website, including their mouse movements, clicks, keystrokes, and pages visited. Businesses can then use this information in deciding how and whether to tweak their websites, and gain other consumer data. In Popa v. […]
The Federal Trade Commission this week sued fitness operators Fitness International LLC and Fitness & Sports Clubs, LLC for using cancellation procedures that made it difficult for consumers to unsubscribe from their monthly memberships. The complaint alleges that the gyms’ practices have incurred hundreds of millions of dollars in unwanted recurring charges. According to the […]
Over at the Consumer Finance Monitor blog, Alan Kaplinsky has questioned the legal authority for President Trump’s Executive Order barring so-called debanking; that is, when banks close bank accounts based on someone’s political views. The blog post argues that to the extent that the EO is based on the CFPB’s and FTC’s unfairness powers, it […]
That’s one of the many issues raised by Seth Frotman & Brad Lipton’s short article in the California Law Review Online, The Greatest Trick John Roberts Ever Pulled: Convincing the World that Rigged Courts Are Neutral. Here’s some of what they say about disclosures: [T]he Roberts court has destroyed any justification for a disclosure-based consumer protection […]
In 2024, various telecom industry associations sued the FCC in the Sixth Circuit, challenging an order that imposed reporting requirements in the event of data breaches involving consumers’ personally identifiable information. Last week, the Sixth Circuit rejected those challenges. First, it held that the order was within the scope of the FCC’s authority under the […]