Ad Law Access

Updates on advertising law and privacy law trends, issues, and developments

Florida Attorney General Sues Company Over Free Trial Offer

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum recently sued a company and its affiliates over allegations the companies enrolled consumers in a monthly subscription program without the consumers' knowledge or consent. The AG…

Class Certification Denied in RESPA Kickback Action

The recent decision in Carter v. Welles-Bowen Realty, Inc., No. 3:09-cv-400 (N.D. Ohio Mar. 11, 2010), two consolidated cases involving alleged kickbacks to “sham” title insurance companies, in violation of the Real…

Maine Repeals Law Prohibiting Marketing to Children

In a post last month, we wrote that a Maine legislative committee had voted to repeal a recently-enacted online marketing law and predicted that the full legislature would soon repeal the law. Since then, Maine…

Mississippi Enacts Data Breach Notification Law

This post was written by Alysa Zeltzer Hutnik . On April 7, 2010, Mississippi enacted a data breach notification law that requires any person who conducts business in the State of Mississippi, and who, in the ordinary…

DOJ Reaches Landmark Settlement of Claims Regarding Racial Discrimination in Mortgage Lending

Last month, two subsidiaries of American International Group (“AIG”) agreed to pay $7.1 million to settle claims by the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) that the companies unlawfully charged African American…