April 27, 2017 Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) announced a $32 million settlement with NutriMost, LLC, NutriMost Doctors, LLC and their owner (collectively, “Defendants”). The FTC alleged that the Defendants’ weight loss marketing materials misled consumers into believing that the Defendants’ product would cause consumers to lose 20-40 pounds in 40 days. According […]
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November 15, 2016 A federal judge for the Middle District Court of Florida has entered a $30 million judgment in favor of the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and against NBA Advertising, Inc. and its owner. We had previously blogged about the initial filing of the lawsuit by the FTC, which was brought in connection with
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June 10, 2016 Last Thursday, the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC” or “Commission”) filed a lawsuit against a number of Florida-based individuals and companies for allegedly unlawful Internet weight-loss product marketing practices. How did these marketers end up on the FTC’s bad side?
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September 29, 2015 Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) filed a complaint against Roca Labs, Inc., Roca Labs Nutraceutical USA, Inc., and their respective principals (collectively, “Roca”). In its complaint, the FTC alleges various violations of the FTC Act, including the use of “gag clause” provisions in their website Terms and Conditions intended to
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May 5, 2015 Yesterday, the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC” or “Commission”) announced that it has obtained a temporary restraining order from a federal court in California against a number of advertisers, marketers and distributors of weight-loss supplements – both individually and on behalf of their respective businesses. The Commission’s complaint alleges that the defendants
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March 4, 2015 The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) has settled a complaint that it filed in June 2014 against several companies that, through unscrupulous telemarketing practices, allegedly swindled Spanish-speaking consumers across the country by sending unordered or defective products, including phony weight-loss belts, and subsequently making it difficult, impossible or extremely costly for the consumers
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January 28, 2015 Earlier this week, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC” or “Commission”) reached a $9 million settlement agreement with Pure Health LLC, Genesis Today, Inc. and Lindsey Duncan, CEO of Genesis Today, concerning the marketing of their dietary supplement products. The parties sell a variety of dietary supplements and food products directly to online
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In its continuing effort to remove deceptive weight loss advertising from the Internet, on May 14, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) brought suit in Federal District Court in Florida against various companies and their respective principals for violating Section 5 of the FTC Act, which prohibits unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce. Specifically,
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