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Federal regulators are looking to crack down on fake reviews and other deceptive internet practices. The Federal Trade Commission proposed a new rule Friday that would ban paying for reviews, suppressing honest reviews, selling fake social media engagement and more. Businesses would also be prohibited from running company-controlled websites that claim to be independent, and other deceptive practices like “review hijacking,” which makes reviews for one product appear like they we...

The FTC is preparing a major antitrust lawsuit against Amazon, claiming that the company engages in punitive actions against sellers

Publishers Clearing House (PCH) has found itself in hot water over its sweepstakes practices, which were described by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) as "deceptive and unfair." The company...

This Saturday marks one year since the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which reversed the 50-year-old Roe v. Wade decision. Since then, many people have flocked to Illinois in search of abortion access.

It is not being pushed by extreme maga members. donald trump isnt threatening people that they need to vote for it in any way, shape or form. that is not true. it is one more thing in the long line of deceptive practices that adam schiff has put into place. do we expect politicians arent always going to be honest with us. were skeptical american citizens and its justified. no one has been more deceptive in weaponizeing the information brought forward behind the doors of the intel committee than ...

Introduction - On 30 May 2023, the Office of the General Counsel (the General Counsel) of the National Labor Relations Board (the Board) issued a policy memo (30 May GC Memo) expressing...

On 30 May 2023, the Office of the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board issued a policy memo expressing its position that noncompetition agreements violate Section 8(a)(1) of the NLRA because they ...

Generative AI (GenAI) has been at the top of the headlines lately, transforming fields as varied as journalism, marketing, and gaming, boosting productivity and profitability, and...

While many higher education institutions in Illinois like Loyola University Chicago, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Chicago (UChicago) and Northwestern University provide on-campus health clinics for students, DePaul outsources student health care to Sage Medical Clinic.  Unlike other Chicagoland area universities, DePaul does not provide reproductive services to students, according to DePaul’s policy...

Introduction - On 22 September 2022, we published Growing Trend of Revenue Based Financing and its Legal Implications, which described revenue-based financing (RBF) and its growing...