In this edition of Faegre Drinker’s State Attorneys General Update, we discuss:

• Intuit’s $141 million nationwide settlement of false advertising claims relating to its TurboTax software
• Ford’s multistate settlement of false advertising claims relating to some of its vehicles
• The New York AG’s:
  • $36 million settlement with H&M relating to unused gift cards
  • $2.9 million settlement with Marriott over claims relating to employee severance payments
  • Investigation of social media companies following a mass shooting in Buffalo
• The Washington, D.C., AG’s suit against Meta (f/k/a Facebook) CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Intuit Settles Claims Relating to Alleged Fraudulent Marketing of Its TurboTax Software

Intuit entered a settlement with the Attorneys General of all 50 states and the District of Columbia to resolve claims that it used deceptive tactics to steer low-income tax filers who qualified for free filing software under an IRS program into a pay version of its TurboTax software. Among other things, the Attorneys General alleged that the company deceived consumers by using confusing names in identifying versions of TurboTax — i.e., calling the free version the “Freedom Edition” while calling a “freemium” version through which add-on products were sold the “Free Edition”; preventing the website for the free version of the software from being indexed by search engines; paying for targeted advertising in response to online searches that directed searchers to the TurboTax freemium...

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