Assurance of voluntary compliance explained

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]

Notes and References

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