CommLaw Monitor
Strategies for Avoiding Big Privacy "Don'ts" with Personal Data
On February 27, I will be speaking at the Strata Conference – Making Data Work, in Santa Clara, Calif. My presentation will outline best practices and learning lessons to describe how companies, no matter where they…
FTC Gets Court Order Requiring Individual to Pay $350,000 For Making Deceptive and Unsubstantiated Claims under R-Value Rule
A federal court has ordered Edward Sumpolec, a home insulation marketer d/b/a ThermalKool, ThermalCool, and Energy Conservation Specialists, to pay a $350,000 civil penalty for making deceptive and unsubstantiated…
FTC Announces New Enforcement Policy Relating to Textile, Wool and Fur Acts
The Federal Trade Commission recently announced a new enforcement policy statement regarding the requirements for a guaranty under the Textile, Wool, and Fur Acts (“the Acts”). The Acts permit sellers of those…
Commission Issues Decision In the matter of POM Wonderful LLC
On January 16, 2013, the Federal Trade Commission (“Commission”) issued an Opinion In the matter of POM Wonderful LLC upholding in part and overruling in part Chief Administrative Law Judge D. Michael Chappell’s May…
Senate Confirms Obama Administration Nominee Joshua D. Wright as New Republican FTC Commissioner
Yesterday, the Senate unanimously confirmed Joshua D. Wright to replace J. Thomas Rosch as a Republican commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). According to various sources, Wright is widely regarded as…