Following up on our post a few days ago about the petition by #REPRESENT asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate "surveillance scoring" — where retailers use consumer information collected by data brokers to figure out how much to charge individual customers. Go here to read #REPRESENT's press release. And go here, here, and here […]
Author Archives: Brian Wolfman
The question presented in this brand-new cert petition is Whether the vesting of substantial executive authority in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent agency led by a single director, violates the separation of powers.
Various consumer and health groups – including the Consumer Federation of America, the American Institute for Cancer Research, the American Public Health Association, Breast Cancer Action, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and the U.S. Alcohol Policy Alliance — have called for the following warning on alcohol beverage labels: GOVERNMENT WARNING: According to […]
Professors Brian Feinstein, Chen Meng, and Manisha Padi took a look at that question from one angle in State Attorneys General & Lender Behavior. Here is the abstract: The Dodd-Frank Act empowers state attorneys general to enforce, with limited exception, both state and federal laws concerning predatory lending, unfair and deceptive practices, information disclosure, and […]
That's the title of this ProPublica piece by Anjali Tsui and Alice Wilder. Among other things, this article explains that the payday loan industry's trade group has held its last two annual conventions at a Trump property while at the same time that the Trump Administration's regulatory stance has been decidedly pro-payday lending. The article […]
In yesterday's opinion in Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. Warren, the Supreme Court held that a Virginia law banning uranium mining is not preempted by the Atomic Energy Act. The vote was 6 to 3, with the six Justices in the majority divided between two separate opinions—the first announcing the judgment of the Court, written by […]
In The Continuum of Aggregation, law prof Alexi Lahav discusses the commonalities in various types of aggregated litigation. Here is the abstract: This essay, written for a conference marking the fiftieth anniversary of the multidistrict litigation statute, 28 U.S.C. § 1407, traces the evolution in thinking about aggregation, analyzes the forms of aggregate litigation — […]
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I think our readers might be interested in The Rule of Law in Multidistrict Litigation by law prof David Noll. Here's the abstract: From the Deepwater Horizon disaster to the opioid crisis, multidistrict litigation — or simply MDL — has become the preeminent forum for devising solutions to the most difficult problems in the federal […]
The Supreme Court decided Home Depot v. Jackson, No. 17-1471, this morning about whether a third-party counterclaim defendant can remove a case to federal court under general federal removal provisions or under the Class Action Fairness Act's removal provision, 28 U.S.C. § 1453. The Court held, in a 5-4 opinion by Justice Thomas, that removal […]