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Consumer advocates said Tuesday that the Trump administration is to blame for an appeals court decision that effectively killed the Federal Trade Commission’s click-to-cancel rule, a Biden-era effort to stop companies from trapping consumers in subscriptions with onerous cancellation terms.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit vacated the rule entirely on procedural grounds on Tuesday, siding with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other corporate interests that claimed the FTC’s process in crafting and finalizing the rule did not give industry sufficient “opportunity to assess” the agency’s “cost-benefit analysis of alternatives.”

After the rule was finalized last October, the FTC — then led by Lina Khan — said it had received more than 16,000........

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