Assurance of voluntary compliance

In American law, an assurance of voluntary compliance is a legal device entered into between a state attorney general and an individual or business that the attorney general believes has or may in the future violate a consumer protection law.[1] An assurance is not an admission of guilt.[2] Although parties voluntarily enter into assurances, when violated they have the same force of law as "any injunction, judgment [or] final court order".[3]

References

  1. Zimmering, Paul (January 1976). "Louisiana's Consumer Protection Law--Three Years of Operation". Tulane Law Review.
  2. "Glossary of Closing Descriptions and Useful Legal Terms". State of Oregon Department of Justice. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  3. Evans, Matthew; John Elder (February 2006). "Who?: When?: Where?: What?: How?: An update on the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act". Tennessee Bar Journal.