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California Anti-SPAM Decision Clarifies Rule on Issue of Identifying Sender in Body of Commercial Email

California Anti-SPAM Decision Clarifies Rule on Issue of Identifying Sender in Body of Commercial Email The California Court of Appeal ruled in a putative class action, Rosolowski et al. v. Guthy-Renker LLC, that a commercial email header does not violate California's anti-SPAM statute "merely because it does not identify the official name of

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FTC Action Alleges Violations of the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act Against Internet Marketers

At the Federal Trade Commission’s request, a U.S. district court has temporarily stopped a group of marketers in Nevada and California from conducting business using “FREE” trial offers and health claims that the FTC charges are deceptive and illegal to pitch green coffee bean extract and another dietary supplements.  The

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Green Coffee Bean Manufacturer Fined $3.5 Million for Allegedly Misrepresenting Aspects of Flawed Study

Applied Food Sciences, Inc. (“AFS”), has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that it used the results of a flawed study to make baseless weight-loss claims about its green coffee extract to retailers, who repeated those claims in marketing finished products to consumers. The FTC complaint alleges the study was hopelessly flawed

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