California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law multiple new pieces of legislation in October 2025 aimed at strengthening consumer protections and reducing financial burdens for working families.

The acronym UDAAP refers to unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices by those who offer financial products or services to consumers.

Businesses that defraud consumers sometimes pay a couple of thousand dollars in civil penalties under current California law. Or they’ll be ordered to pay millions of dollars, but close down or ...

California lawmakers have passed numerous laws this year, including ones that could help residents as they navigate buying a car, canceling their social media accounts, and ordering food delivery.

Though there remains no comprehensive nationwide, federal privacy law on the books, several states in the U.S. have passed their own privacy ...

Legality is most visible when a country restricts who may offer a service domestically, while leaving individual use largely unpoliced. Online gambling markets show this clearly: domestic law can ...

Just three weeks into Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration, the new commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer ...

• New York Attorney General Letitia James secured $250,000 from MoneyGram International for failing to follow consumer protection laws and jeopardizing customers' money transfers • The settlement ...