This edition of Greenberg Traurig’s Consumer Compass highlights the pivotal shifts and emerging trends impacting the consumer products industry. Inside, we provide timely legal updates, strategic insights, and essential developments—curated to help empower business decisions and keep stakeholders informed in a rapidly changing market. Go North for regulatory updates; East for emerging risks; South for…

This GT Alert highlights some of the key consumer products bills in New York that companies may want to watch.…

Continue Reading 2026 New York Consumer Products Legislation: Key Bills to Watch

The rise of autonomous vehicles has upended traditional fault frameworks, shifting liability from human drivers toward manufacturers, software developers, and fleet operators. This GT Advisory examines the federal and state regulatory landscape, insurance considerations, and unresolved legal questions shaping accountability for self-driving car incidents.…

Continue Reading Self-Driving Vehicles Liability Assignment in Crashes and Violations

The proliferation of Prop 65 enforcement continues. Private enforcers issued over 5,000 notices of violation in 2025, with food, personal care, and apparel companies remaining the primary target of such enforcement.

The long-running titanium dioxide coordinated cases came to a conclusion this year with the California Eastern District Court holding that titanium dioxide cancer warnings…

Much has been written about the risks of lawyers relying on generative artificial intelligence (Gen. AI) to draft briefs—especially when unchecked citations turn out to be hallucinated. But lawyer briefs are not the only documents that demand scrutiny. As the cases below show, lawyers must also carefully review their experts’ affidavits, declarations, and reports before submitting them to other parties or the court.…

Continue Reading Expert Testimony in the Age of Generative AI: Recent Case Developments

Gov. Pritzker signed Senate Bill 328 into law on Aug. 15. A circuit court recently dismissed one challenge to the law brought by various Illinois lawmakers.
Continue Reading Circuit Court Rejects Illinois Lawmakers’ Challenge to Senate Bill 328’s Expansion of Toxic-Tort Jurisdiction

In Zamani v. SharkNinja, Inc., 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 128075, the District Court concluded that a plaintiff’s Chapter 93A “omission” claim was not well-pleaded enough to survive a motion to dismiss based on hyperlinks that rebutted the alleged omission. The Massachusetts Consumer Protection Act, known as Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 93A, seeks to protect…

Greenberg Traurig’s Consumer Compass newsletter is your guide to navigating the legal landscape of the ever-evolving consumer products industry. Each issue delivers the latest news, emerging trends, and must-know highlights, along with savvy insights designed to keep you ahead of the curve.
Continue Reading Consumer Compass: Navigating the Consumer Products Legal Landscape | Mid-Year 2025

California Senate Bill (SB) 707, also known as the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024 (Act), establishes an extended producer responsibly (EPR) program for apparel and textiles, the first such program directed at apparel and textiles in the United States.
Continue Reading California Creates Extended Producer Responsibility Program for Textiles