The CFPB concludes that regulations to improve disclosures to reverse mortgage borrowers, and limit misleading advertising.
To do so he has dusted off a decree, penalising misleading advertising, approved by a military dictatorship in 1983.
Tales abound of rip-offs, misleading advertising, inaccurat e billing and orders never arriving.
He supports a new model law for the states that would bring lawyers under consumer-protection laws including prohibitions against misleading advertising.
It also contains provisions prohibiting false or misleading advertising.
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Instead, Nokia saw its share price drop 16% in response to its new phones and that was even before it had to apologize for misleading advertising materials associated with its new phones.
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The plaintiffs devoted a lengthy footnote (n. 6) in their proposed settlement explaining why their cy pres proposal was not disconnected from the misleading advertising claims, as the appeals court found in Kellogg (there, Kellogg products were to be donated to a food bank).
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The advertising is misleading consumers and retail customers.
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The New York probe is focused on whether the drink makers are misleading consumers with inaccurate labeling and advertising, according to the person familiar with the matter.
"Dell has engaged in repeated misleading, deceptive and unlawful business conduct, including false and deceptive advertising of financing promotions and the terms of warranties, fraudulent, misleading and deceptive practices in credit financing and failure to provide warranty service and rebates, " Justice Joseph C.
By alleging that advertising claims are false and misleading, a plaintiff can impose huge legal costs on a rival for no other purpose than to seek economic advantage.
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These efficiency measures reduce ad effects, misleading marketing managers to choose further spiraling reductions in advertising costs and ad effects.
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The move comes after New York State Judge Joseph Teresi ruled that the PC maker had engaged in "misleading, deceptive and unlawful business conduct, " that included false advertising, fraudulent financing schemes, and failure to provide warranty services and rebates.
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has banned 25 Virgin Media adverts for being either misleading or factually incorrect in the past 18 months.
Today savvy money managers are using public relations firms to disseminate misleading information to the public-information the managers themselves are prohibited under the federal securities laws from advertising.
In February, the United Kingdom Advertising Standards Authority ruled that TripAdvisor's advertised claim of "trusted advice from real travelers" was misleading, because fake comments could be posted without verification.
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