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The United States federal government regulates advertising through the Federal Trade Commission [49] (FTC) with truth-in-advertising laws [50] and enables private litigation through a number of laws, most significantly the Lanham Act (trademark and unfair competition). Specifically, under Section 43(a), false advertising is an actionable civil ...
Notably, Section 43(a) of the Lanham Act focuses on false advertising and unfair competition, providing a legal recourse for individuals and businesses. [10] This section enables legal action against those engaging in misleading advertising practices that may cause confusion about the origin of goods or services.
In addition to federal laws, each state has its own unfair competition law to prohibit false and misleading advertising. [1] In California, one such statute is the Unfair Competition Law ("UCL"), Business and Professions Code §§ 17200 et seq.
Wendy’s and McDonald’s have emerged victorious from a lawsuit that accused the fast food chains of false advertising.. A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought against the two companies ...
U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson rejected that argument, finding that trailers are “commercial speech,” subject to false advertising laws. The difficulty for the plaintiffs, however, was ...
The suit was one of several false advertising lawsuits filed recently against fast food companies by New York attorney James Kelly. A message seeking comment from Kelly was left Tuesday by The ...
The AMA defines deceptive advertising as "advertising intended to mislead consumers by falsely making claims, by failure to make full disclosure, or by both". [ 3 ] The Federal Trade Commission Act defines an act or practice as deceptive "if there is a material misrepresentation or omission of information that is likely to mislead the consumer ...
The New Jersey Supreme Court handed a victory to both the plaintiffs and advocates of truth in advertising this week when it ruled that lawsuits against the maker of dietary supplement Relacore ...