Consumer Protection
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson announced a bill Monday that they said would make several fixes to the California Consumer Privacy Act, the latest move to modify the landmark law passed in 2018… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Facebook on Friday came under fire once again for allegedly mishandling users’ information, when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a multi-agency probe of the social media giant following a report that found it collected sensitive personal data from a number of smartphone applications… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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President Donald Trump and three of his adult children argued on Thursday in New York federal court that a proposed class action accusing them of defrauding consumers by providing spurious endorsements for a multilevel marketing company still doesn’t hold water after the plaintiffs amended their original complaint… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Johnson & Johnson is cooperating with government probes in which the pharmaceutical giant has been asked to turn over documents related to allegations that some of its baby powder products were contaminated with asbestos, the company said Wednesday in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Ford Motor Co. and AT&T Corp. won’t face trial in a case brought by a woman alleging that the car maker and the telecom giant were among a vast group of companies that contributed to her husband’s death from asbestos-related mesothelioma, a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Wednesday… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 