In this post, part of a six-part series, we explore what the FTC’s Final Rule on consumer reviews and testimonials means for incentivized reviews.[1] The Final Rule prohibits businesses from ...
In this post, part of a six-part series on the FTC’s Final Rule on Consumer Reviews and Testimonials,[1] we explore what the Final Rule means for so-called “insider” consumer reviews and ...
Debtors should carefully consider the impact of these contingencies in evaluating whether noncompete clauses survive ...
This change in this reorientation has happened against a backdrop of a very organic sense that something was not working, ...
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is requiring Care.com, a platform for gig workers in the eldercare and child care space, to pay $8.5 million in refunds for deceiving caregivers who were ...
A federal judge shot down the FTC’s rule banning noncompete agreements, a setback for the agency’s effort to free workers from restrictive employment contract terms. The commission said it is ...
An FTC spokesperson told me in an email that the agency was “seriously considering” appealing the Texas judge’s ruling. Even if the agency doesn’t salvage its own ban, though, a ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I'm an antitrust expert and former FTC general counsel. On August 20, federal trial court judge Ada Brown in the Northern District of Texas ...
The Federal Trade Commission said Monday that Care.com had agreed to a proposed $8.5 million settlement to address what the FTC called “unlawful practices,” which include misleading both the ...
On Tuesday a federal judge in Texas blocked a controversial FTC ban of non-compete agreements that was set to take effect in early September after the rule was challenged by the US Chamber of ...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requires security camera vendor Verkada to create a comprehensive information security program as part of a settlement after ...
“Four of eight testifying Albertsons witnesses failed to preserve responsive text messages after receiving a preservation hold and numerous reminders,” said the FTC filing on Aug. 16.