When Privacy Concerns and Deceptive Marketing Issues Intersect
Why TINA.org supports FTC’s proposed changes to COPPA Rule but pushes for more.
April 2016: The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s dismissal concluding that the complaint failed to state a claim.
May 2014: A federal judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit against Walmart because plaintiffs did not file an amended complaint fixing the problems in the earlier complaint, as required by a court order. The complaint, which was originally filed in 2013, alleged that the store markets Equate Migraine as “being a superior and more-potent drug as compared to Equate ES” when, according to the plaintiffs, both Equate Migraine and Equate ES contain the same amounts of the same active ingredients. The judge dismissed the lawsuit When a complaint is dismissed with prejudice, it cannot be refiled.. Later in May, the plaintiffs filed a Notice of Appeal regarding the dismissal. (Boris et al v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. and Walmart.com, Case No. 13-cv-07090, C. D. CA.).
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Why TINA.org supports FTC’s proposed changes to COPPA Rule but pushes for more.
FTC alleges company pressures consumers into overpaying for its tax filing software.
Bogus report leads to unapproved health claims.
Lawsuits take aim at so-called non-disparagement clauses.
The consumer advocacy organization truthinadvertising.org (TINA.org) has published the results of a yearslong investigation into the multilevel marketing (MLM) industry that found widespread use of deceptive income claims to promote…