Just in time for the 2012 Super Bowl, the Federal Trade Commission has issued a closing letter involving advertising practices used during last year’s big game. The agency opinion demonstrates why all companies should have internal antitrust and consumer protection compliance programs in place.

The Occupy movement took its campaign against corporate domination to the federal judiciary Friday. Demonstrators pushed through a police barricade and stormed the U.S. Supreme Court building, while others massed at federal courthouses nationwide to protest the Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision.

In a court document that provided a glimpse into Toyota’s potential defense in the first bellwether case in the federal multidistrict litigation over sudden acceleration, the company blamed a deceased driver for a crash involving a 2008 Camry that allegedly lurched forward while on an exit ramp.

Credit repair organizations can require consumers to arbitrate their claims, the Supreme Court has ruled, rejecting arguments by consumer and senior citizen groups that the federal Credit Repair Organizations Act gives consumers a non-waivable right to go to court with claims of unfair or deceptive practices.

Credit repair organizations can require consumers to arbitrate their claims, the Supreme Court has ruled, rejecting arguments by consumer and senior citizen groups that the federal Credit Repair Organizations Act gives consumers a non-waivable right to go to court with claims of unfair or deceptive practices.