Paxton said the NCAA, which oversees college sports at more than 1,000 colleges and universities nationwide, is duping women’s sports fans in violation of Texas’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act, a state law that shields consumers against businesses that falsely advertise their products. “Consumer...
argues the NCAA violates the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act by promoting women's sports that may include a transgender athlete. The law is designed to protect consumers from being misled or tricked into buying products or services that are not as advertised, the lawsuit said. ...
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In 1995, TLR advocated the reform of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, and the Legislature enacted a series of amendments to that Act which restored it to its original purpose of a consumer protection statute to allow a consumer to have adequate processes and remedies against product selle...
As Hurricane Harvey was approaching the Texas coast last year, Governor Greg Abbott declared a state of disaster activating a provision of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act that made price gouging illegal. In the wake of the hurricane, the attorney general's office received thousands of comp...
Paxton sued Yelp Thursday, claiming it violated Texas' Deceptive Trade Practices Act "by appending inaccurate and misleading language to listings on pregnancy resource centers appearing in the search results on Yelp's app and website." Yelp is defending how it labels crisis pregnancy centers that ...
Attorney General Paxton is suing because the insulin pricing scheme violates the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act, constitutes unjust enrichment, and represents an unlawful civil conspiracy.” Maximize Your Portfolio with Data Driven Insights: Leverage the power of TipRanks' Smart Score, a data-...
The business court would also have supplemental jurisdiction over "all matters arising out of or related to" business disputes, except for claims against government entities, personal injury claims, Deceptive Trade Practices Act, or DTPA, claims; and claims under the Family Code, Estates Code, and...
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said he opened an investigation of Twitter, claiming the social media platform may be misleading people with false reporting of its bot accounts, violating the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. The Republican attorney general announced the probe the same day Twitte...