• State AGs Investigate Caffeinated Alcohol Claims

    March 25, 2008
    The attorneys general from five states have issued subpoenas to Anheuser-Busch and SABMiller in an investigation over the companies' marketing of caffeinated alcohol drinks. The latest move amps up a dispute that has been brewing for nearly a year.

  • Online Safety Task Force Formed

    March 25, 2008
    An outpost of Harvard's law school has organized a task force to develop better tools to protect children from Internet dangers such as lurking sex predators. The Internet Safety Task Force was created as part of an agreement reached between social networking site MySpace and 50 state attorneys general.

  • FCC Officials Provide Advertisers With Self-Regulatory Road Map

    March 25, 2008
    Federal Communications Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate offered some "inside baseball" advice to advertisers recently-step up self-regulation or else. Addressing the Association of National Advertisers in February, Commissioner Tate warned that failure to change could mean regulatory-or even legislative intervention.

  • Meat Recall Includes School Lunch Beef

    March 4, 2008
    More than one-third of the beef recalled in the largest beef recall in U.S. history was distributed for school lunch and other federal nutrition programs, authorities said.