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US Court nullifies FTC requirement for click-to-cancel

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Did you read the article? "Procedures weren't followed." Seems like an almost intentional mistake tbh

It's a pro-business decision by the most conservative court in the land, so it would have been surprising if, in all of jurisprudence, they couldn't find something to squash it with, at least temporarily.

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From a different article [1]: > But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit said the FTC erred in its rulemaking process by failing to produce a preliminary regulatory analysis, a statutory requirement for rules whose annual effect on the national economy would exceed $100 million. > The FTC had argued that it was not required to prepare the preliminary analysis because its initial estimate of the rule’s imp…

From googling apparently the "presiding officer" is appointed by the FTC chair. So it sounds like the FTC spiked its own case.

It was Lina Khan. She just felt strongly about going out the way she came in — losing every single case.

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The 8th circuit court of appeals is the most conservative, with only one judge appointed by a Democratic president.

What about the earlier administrative judge who warned FTC they were ignoring established rules when it was reviewed the first time, then FTC proceeded to ignore that judge and passed it anyway, which resulted it in being in front of this appeals court?
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