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As I reported earlier this year, the Iowa Attorney General filed a complaint against Osmosis LLC and Harmonized Water LLC, a Colorado-based maker of "drinkable sunscreen." According to the Iowa Attorney General's allegations, the company made claims that its water had been treated with a device that changes the electrical energy...

Americans are constantly harassed by telephone marketing calls, debt collection calls and other unwanted telephone calls. These unwanted calls led to passage of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) in 1991. At the time, Senator Hollings, the sponsor of the TCPA, described these calls as "the scourge of modern civilization, they wake...

There is a good chance that your most sensitive data was stolen from Equifax. 143 million people had their data accessed by hackers. The breach occurred sometime in the May to July, 2017 time frame. For most people, the information accessed includes names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, and...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is suing a marketing scheme that tricked consumers into spending 2,000 percent of what they thought they had agreed to pay. The defendants are charged with violating the FTC Act and the Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act. In its complaint, the FTC alleges that...

Interesting Statistics: I started writing about consumer law issues on this website a year ago. It is interesting to see the statistics behind my website and blog. Here are some interesting numbers: Visitor Locations: 1) Colorado 27%
2) Wyoming 5%
3) California 2%
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I have written about the FTC's substantiation requirements with respect to supplements. It is not surprising that the FTC has taken action against supplement makers to require that their claims are valid. The nature of supplements lends itself to exaggerated and false claims about their effectiveness. However, the substantiation requirements apply to...

Wyoming adopts law reining in freewheeling roof repair operations Hail storms are a recurring summer event in Wyoming. Millions of dollars in damage is inflicted on hundreds of homes in Wyoming every year. This leads to a large number of contractors and related individuals offering roof repair services...

CenturyLink faces two class action lawsuits related to allegations of ripping off customers just a few days after being sued by a former employee for wrongful termination for complaining to her superiors that the company forced employees to rip off customers. The class action lawsuits were apparently triggered by the 

The FTC obtains $280 million judgment against Colorado based Dish Network for telemarketing violations A U.S. District Court in Illinois found that Colorado based Dish Network violated the FTC's Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR) and the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by making or causing its telemarketing agencies to make calls...

An FTC study showed that five percent of Americans had errors on their credit reports that could lead to them paying more for loans. This statistic seems accurate to me as many consumers call my office asking for advice on how to remove errors from their credit reports. This is...