Federal appeals court blocks FTC's "click to cancel" rule requiring businesses to simplify subscription cancellations, citing ...

Opinion: Olshan's Andrew Lustigman and Morgan Spina explain why marketers shouldn't ignore their subscription and program ...

The FTC's click-to-cancel rule, set to go into effect July 14, was vacated on July 8 due to a procedural error.

A federal appeals court has halted a consumer-friendly “click-to-cancel” regulation just days before its scheduled ...

Consumers who find themselves trapped in payment plans that are nearly impossible to end could get relief under new legislation.

U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) is urging the Federal Trade Commission to finalize a “click to cancel" rule that would ...

A federal appeals court has put a stop to the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) new rule that would have made it easier for ...

The new bill would write the FTC’s stalled “Negative Option” rule directly into federal law, bypassing regulatory hurdles.

The collapse of the click-to-cancel rule underscores a harsh reality: the burden of avoiding subscription traps now falls squarely on consumers. With federal protections stalled, state laws and ...

A federal appeals court has blocked enforcement of a Federal Trade Commission rule that prohibited companies from making it harder for consumers to cancel.

On July 8, 2025, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit vacated the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) “Click to Cancel” Rule.

The FTC's attempts to make subscriptions easy to cancel were thrown out at the last minute. Lawmakers are trying to put them back in, but face an uphill battle.