FTC Sues 'Jerk.com' Over Alleged Consumer Deception

NEWS FROM WASHINGTON • FTC Sues 'Jerk.com' Over Alleged Consumer Deception • Hogan Lovells Wins Judgment in Fee Dispute • Coalition Calls for End of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac • D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Richter to Retire • Regulation of Bitcoin Is Up for Grabs • High Court Drama Steps on Stage In Play on Landmark Nudity Case FTC Sues 'Jerk.com' Over Alleged Consumer Deception The operators of the website Jerk.com were sued by the Federal Trade Commission today for allegedly harvesting personal information from Facebook to designate more than 73 million people jerks or nonjerks, then falsely claiming that consumers could revise their online profiles by paying $30. Read More » Hogan Lovells Wins Judgment in Fee Dispute Hogan Lovells won a $167,000 judgment last week in a fee dispute with a former client, start-up airline company People Express Airlines Inc. Read More » Sponsor Spotlight: Sharpen Your Courtroom Skills Champion what matters to you through the Litigation Skills Summer Institute offered by American University Washington College of Law. The program features rigorous training in pre-trial and trial skills, including fact and expert witness depositions, civil trial advocacy, and litigating in a high-tech courtroom. Courses are held in the evening and on weekends from July 7 - 20th. CLE credit is available. Visit wcl.american.edu/trial/summer Coalition Calls for End of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac A mysterious group calling itself the Coalition for Mortgage Security has emerged to push the U.S. government to replace Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac with private mortgage finance companies. Read More » D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Richter to Retire District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Robert Richter will retire in October after serving three decades on the bench. Read More » Regulation of Bitcoin Is Up for Grabs Following a series of multimillion-dollar thefts and losses, federal regulators want to step up their oversight of virtual currency bitcoin. But bitcoin — a nationless digital money that uses cryptography to control its creation and transactions — doesn't fit neatly in any regulatory box. Read More » High Court Drama Steps on Stage In Play on Landmark Nudity Case Justices scooting around on their chairs like whirling dervishes. Advocates pushing their lecterns back and forth, one lawyer even orating and dancing — briefly — without benefit of clothing. That is how the play "Arguendo" holds its audience through the inevitably dull stretches of a high court argument. Read More »

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