Sentences with phrase «deceptive practice the bar»

Use of another firm name could suggest an affiliation to a consumer — it's the kind of deceptive practice the bar would be justified in curtailing.

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The nation's consumer protection agency, the Federal Trade Commission, enforces the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, which bars debt collectors from using abusive, unfair or deceptive practices.

Traditionally, consumer protection regulation has consisted of barring trade practices which are misleading, deceptive, unfair, or unconscionable, or in any way restrict trade.

«As with all bar regulation, the rules sound benign enough in practice — protecting consumers from deceptive practices and preventing lawyers from acting like undignified hucksters.

My guess is that most law firms would have instructed their marketers not to include the name of competitors as keywords for the site either as a matter of professional courtesy or to avoid the kind of deceptive practice that might draw bar scrutiny.

The suit also alleges the publisher violated Alex Malarkey's right to privacy, cast him in a false light, intruded on his seclusion, defamed him, violated Illinois law barring deceptive trade practices, and financially exploited him in violation of an Illinois law barring the exploitation of people with disabilities.

It also required Facebook to establish a «comprehensive privacy program,» block access to a user's account within 30 days of it being deleted and barred it from making any deceptive claims about its privacy practices.

First, the economic loss doctrine (which bars tort claims that arise from a contract) does not apply to deceptive trade practices claims in the state.

Come February 22, 2010, card lenders will be barred from raising interest rates on most borrowers» existing balances — a practice that increasingly irked consumers over the last decade and one of several that federal regulators and lawmakers finally barred as unfair and deceptive.