The FTC reached a settlement with Career Step, LLC to resolve allegations that the company violated the FTC Act, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act, and the Telemarketing Sales Rule by making deceptive statements when promoting its online career-training services. According to the FTC’s complaint, Career Step used deceptive ads, incentivized reviews,…

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A bipartisan coalition of 11 state AGs and the U.S. DOJ have reached a settlement with the NCAA to resolve allegations of federal antitrust law violations.

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A coalition of 19 Democratic AGs is calling on the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to move quickly to implement its proposed regulations that would waive or reduce student loan repayment for certain groups of federal student loan borrowers. ED’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) issued in April 2024 proposes to give ED the discretion…

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D.C. AG Brian Schwalb, Florida AG Ashley Moody, and New York AG Letitia James have joined a lawsuit brought by Tennessee AG Jonathan Skrmetti and Virginia AG Jason Miyares against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), which we previously covered, alleging that the organization’s restrictions on future student-athletes’ ability to commercially use their name, image,…

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Massachusetts AG Andrew Joy Campbell, Pennsylvania AG Michelle Henry, Iowa AG Brenna Bird, and the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) announced that DOE approved $6.1 billion in automatic student loan relief for nearly 317,000 students of for-profit Art Institutes schools, which allegedly made substantial misrepresentations to students. DOE’s approval was based on a review of…

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