Penalty Amount
$150,000
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced a settlement with Corporate Certificates, LLC and FL UCC Statement Service, LLC resolving allegations that the companies mailed marketing materials to Colorado businesses designed to look like official government invoices, without the statutorily required disclaimers and with purported deadlines implying a legal duty. Under the stipulated consent judgment, the companies will pay $150,000 in refunds and fees and permanently cease all operations in Colorado. The companies had ignored prior warning notices and stopped operating in Colorado in August 2025 after the AG obtained a preliminary injunction.
Under the stipulated consent judgment, the companies must pay $150,000 in refunds and fees to the state and permanently cease all operations in Colorado. The companies had already halted Colorado operations in August 2025 due to the Attorney General's motion for preliminary injunction, following warning notices sent in May and December 2024.
In-house legal teams should review agreements with marketing vendors, direct-mail agencies, and third-party business compliance/filing service providers (registered agents, annual report filers, UCC retrieval services) for clauses governing solicitation and advertising materials. Contracts should require vendors to comply with state solicitation disclosure laws, including Colorado's requirement for a clear 24-point font disclaimer stating the offer is not from a government agency, and should expressly prohibit the use of deadlines or formatting that imply a legal duty or mimic official government correspondence. Teams should also confirm contracts include representations and warranties of marketing-law compliance, indemnification for consumer protection violations, audit rights over mailed materials, and termination rights for deceptive solicitation practices. Additionally, accounts-payable procedures should be checked so that purported government invoices received from vendors are verified against the secretary of state's official records before payment.
Entity
Corporate Certificates, LLC and FL UCC Statement Service, LLC
Industry
OtherOfficial Press Release
https://coag.gov/press-releases/companies-will-stop-sending-deceptive-notices-to-businesses-pay-150000-to-the-state-under-agreement-with-attorney-generals-office/
Stipulated Consent Judgment UCC
https://coag.gov/app/uploads/2026/09/Stipulated-Consent-Judgment-UCC.pdf
Colorado Attorney General Enforcement Page
https://coag.gov/
"a settlement with Corporate Certificates, LLC, and FL UCC Statement Service, LLC"
"Sept. 16, 2026 (DENVER) – Attorney General Phil Weiser today announced a settlement"
"the companies will pay $150,000 in refunds and fees"
"mailed marketing materials to Colorado businesses that appeared to be official invoices from a government entity, but lacked required disclaimers and included purported deadlines in violation of state law"
"Colorado law allows businesses to market some periodic report filing services and certificate of good standing retrieval services, it requires marketing materials to have clear disclaimers in at least 24-point font"
"will permanently cease all operations in Colorado"
$694.0M
Colorado and 40 other states entered into a settlement with Credit Acceptance Corporation (CAC), one of the nation's largest subprime auto lenders, resolving allegations that CAC originated car loans it knew or should have known consumers could not afford and that it failed to reasonably prevent dealers in its network from deceptively 'packing' Vehicle Service Contract and GAP add-on products into CAC-financed purchases. The settlement provides $694 million in cash and debt relief to consumers plus an additional $15 million to the attorneys general, and imposes injunctive reforms including loan 'off ramps,' enhanced pre-purchase and pre-loan disclosures, dealer monitoring, and a seven-year price cap at 109% of retail book value. Note: this is a consumer-lending enforcement action, not a data privacy matter; the 'dark_patterns' category is the closest available fit for the deceptive add-on sales allegations.
$30K
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced a settlement with Sares Regis Group, a Denver-metro property management company, after an investigation found it told prospective tenants that rental subsidies and housing vouchers were not accepted at its properties, in violation of the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act and the Colorado Consumer Protection Act. Under the settlement, the company must adopt written source-of-income policies, train leasing employees, submit a compliance report to the AG's office, and refrain from misrepresenting its voucher acceptance, and it pays $30,000 to the Housing Rights Initiative. Note: this is a fair-housing enforcement action, not a privacy matter, so no privacy violation taxonomy categories apply.
$300K
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced a settlement with Avail Property Management Inc. and PK Management, LLC resolving allegations that the companies denied prospective tenants housing based on criminal history information prohibited under Colorado's Rental Application Fairness Act, including arrests, deferred judgments, and convictions older than five years (some more than 20 years old). The companies, which managed nearly 4,000 rental units across Colorado, relied on a third-party background screening service despite legal prohibitions. Under the settlement, they must change screening practices, review vendor recommendations rather than relying on them automatically, submit to two years of compliance reporting, and pay $300,000.
Attorney General Weiser joined a coalition of attorneys general in suing to block new unlawful conditions on Title X funding imposed by HHS, which would penalize states and providers that refuse to abandon nondiscrimination initiatives or conform to the administration's ideological vision of family planning. The lawsuit argues the conditions conflict with federal law, violate the Administrative Procedure Act, and are unconstitutionally vague.
$1.4M
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser announced a settlement with Cobblestone Denver Opco, LLC (Cobblestone Car Wash) over allegations that the company used unfair automatic renewal practices for monthly membership fees. The company failed to provide proper disclosures, notices, terms, and cancellation options, locking over 70,000 consumers into auto-renewal contracts. Cobblestone will pay $1,353,465 in restitution, has already refunded $253,406 to consumers, and must comply with the Colorado Consumer Protection Act, including providing easy-to-access cancellation options and 25-day advance notice of price increases.
Attorney General Phil Weiser joined a coalition of 22 attorneys general and Pennsylvania in filing two lawsuits against the Trump administration for demanding a database of state-owned records containing sensitive personal information of 17 million commercial drivers. The lawsuits allege violations of federal privacy laws and the Administrative Procedure Act, and seek an emergency order to prevent the data from being turned over by the August 17 deadline.