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Jan 10, 2025 | 
openlegalblogarchive.org | Sheila A. Millar |Antonia Stamenova-Dancheva
Competition Bureau Canada (the Bureau) announced just before Christmas that it is seeking public comments on draft guidelines (the Guidelines) for assessing environmental claims for compliance with Canada’s Competition Act (the Act). The Act was amended in June 2024 by adding two specific provisions to existing general prohibitions for false and misleading representations and unsupported performance claims to address environmental claims.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
natlawreview.com | Sheila A. Millar |Antonia Stamenova-Dancheva |Cheryl Reicin |Ryan Higgins
Competition Bureau Canada (the Bureau) announced just before Christmas that it is seeking public comments on draft guidelines (the Guidelines) for assessing environmental claims for compliance with Canada’s Competition Act (the Act). The Act was amended in June 2024 by adding two specific provisions to existing general prohibitions for false and misleading representations and unsupported performance claims to address environmental claims.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
natlawreview.com | Sheila A. Millar |Antonia Stamenova-Dancheva |Anne E. Callenbach
Skip to main content January 09, 2025 Volume XV, Number 9 Legal Analysis. Expertly Written. Quickly Found.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
openlegalblogarchive.org | Sheila A. Millar |Antonia Stamenova-Dancheva
California recently became the first state to adopt an extended producer responsibility (EPR) scheme for textiles by adopting Senate Bill 707, the (the RTRA or Act). Specific requirements will become effective in 2026. EPR is a regulatory approach that shifts the burden of recycling and reuse of products away from local governments and consumers to manufacturers for the entire lifecycle of a product.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Paul Gomez |Ashley Osak |Sheila A. Millar |Antonia Stamenova-Dancheva
Skip to main content January 04, 2024 Volume XIV, Number 4 Legal Analysis. Expertly Written. Quickly Found.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
natlawreview.com | Sheila A. Millar |Antonia Stamenova-Dancheva |Liisa M. Thomas |Hillary Chinigo Campbell
Happy 2024 folks! As we turn the page on 2023, we mustn’t overlook the dynamic changes in state privacy laws as we step into the new year. In March 2022, Utah became one of the early states to enact a consumer data privacy law. While the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA) is perceived as being more favorable to businesses compared to its predecessors — the CCPA/CPRA, VCDPA, and the CPA — businesses operating in Utah must keep in mind key regulations required by UCPA.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
lexblog.com | Sheila A. Millar |Antonia Stamenova-Dancheva
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC or Agency) recently published a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (SNPR) (88 Fed. Reg. 85760 (December 8, 2023)) to revise the existing rule on Certificates of Compliance (CoC or certificates), 16 CFR § 1110 (Rule 1110).
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
lexblog.com | Sheila A. Millar |Antonia Stamenova-Dancheva |Anushka Rahman
Manufacturers and distributors of household cleaners and similar chemically-based consumer products sold in Canada should be aware of an uptick in recalls by Health Canada for violations of the labeling requirements of the Consumer Chemicals and Containers Regulations, 2001(CCCR) under the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act (CCPSA). The CCCR establishes detailed product classification criteria and labeling and packaging requirements for potential hazards in certain consumer products.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
lexblog.com | Sheila A. Millar |Antonia Stamenova-Dancheva
Sheila A. Millar is a partner at Keller and Heckman LLP, where she represents businesses and trade associations on a variety of public policy and regulatory issues, including privacy, data security, cybersecurity and advertising matters, as well as product safety issues. She has…Sheila A.
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Aug 15, 2023 | 
lexblog.com | Sheila A. Millar |Antonia Stamenova-Dancheva |Anushka Rahman
On July 13, 2023, a three-judge Ninth Circuit panel denied Google’s challenge of its earlier decision in Jones v. Google, which held that state privacy law claims in a putative class action are not preempted by the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). The December decision reversed a lower court’s dismissal of the action on the grounds that COPPA preempted identical state law claims.
