November 2022 The importance of consumer protection laws can seem unfathomable when you see a label on a sweater reminding you to remove the child before laundering, but laws prohibiting deceptive trade practices and false advertising exist because the incentives to run roughshod over consumers are significant. Since the individual harm resulting from consumer fraud is often small, those laws often provide for statutory damages to give consumers an incentive to pursue their claims and for producers to refrain from defrauding customers. For businesses selling and promoting their products nationally, statutory damages can mount quickly. This article discusses Monera v.…