The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently ruled in NicQuid, L.L.C. v. FDA, No. 24-60272 (5th Cir. Aug. 19, 2026), that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) “comparative efficacy standard” is a substantive rule that was
On August 31, 2026, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), joined by the attorneys general (AGs) of 22 states, filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington alleging that Amazon.com, Inc. overcharged its approximately 1.2
On September 1, 2026, the New Jersey attorney general and Division of Consumer Affairs announced that Match Group, Inc. (MGI), the Texas-based operator of several major online dating platforms, will pay $650,000 and implement changes to its business practices to
On September 2, 2026, a group of tobacco product manufacturers and retailers filed a complaint in federal court, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, challenging the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) 2021 premarket tobacco product
On August 31, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) executed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) establishing a formal framework for sharing nonpublic information between the two agencies. The MOU takes effect
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Connecticut Attorney General (AG) William Tong announced a $4 million settlement this week with Manchester City Nissan, resolving allegations that the dealership systematically charged customers unauthorized fees.
On August 14, 2026, Corteva, Inc. agreed to pay $3.1 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit brought by the Arkansas attorney general (AG) alleging that the pesticide maker’s rebate and loyalty programs functioned as de facto exclusive dealing arrangements that
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In July 2026, OpenAI released an experimental AI cybersecurity model for internal testing. The model allegedly gained unauthorized access to several computer networks, resulting in an attack on Hugging Face, a widely used open-source AI platform that offers computation tools
In this episode of Payments Pros, host Keith Barnett examines a June 2026 multistate consent order issued jointly by Colorado and Texas against RamadPay, a Minnesota-based money transmitter specializing in international transfers between the U.S. and Africa.
