Electric scooters have simply showed up on the streets, placed there by profit-seeking companies, largely or entirely unregulated. Read this story by Sharon Jayson concerning an investigation into the large number of injuries caused by e-scooters currently underway at the Centers for Disease Control.
Author Archives: Brian Wolfman
Bryan Casey has written Robot Ipsa Loquitur. Here is the abstract: Accidents are becoming automated. From self-driving cars to self-flying drones, robots are increasingly colliding with the world. And one of the most pressing questions raised by these technologies — indeed, one of the great regulatory challenges of the coming era — is how the law […]
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has created a recall app for your mobile phone allowing easy tracking of federal consumer product safety recalls. Get the app here.
Last week, the National Consumer Law Center's Chi Chi Wu testified before the House Financial Services Committee on continuing serious problems plaguing the credit reporting industry, including its failure to ensure the accuracy of credit reports. Among other things, the testimony identified these concerns: unacceptable error rates and the myriad types of systemic inaccuracies in […]
Read this article by Renae Merle entitled How a payday lending industry insider tilted academic research in its favor. It explains how payday-loan industry lobbyists bought (and sometimes wrote) research from supposedly independent academics purporting to show that payday loans don't harm consumers. Oh, and by the way, the payday-loan industry's lobby group "held its 2018 […]
The Supreme Court has granted review in Rotkiskie v. Klemm. The question presented in the 8-page (!) petition for a writ of certiorari is whether the “discovery rule” applies to toll the one (1) year statute of limitations under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), 15 U.S.C. §§ 1692, et seq., as the Fourth […]
That's the name of this story by Elizabeth Dwoskin. Here's an excerpt: Last May, officials in Midlothian, Texas, a city near Dallas, approved more than $10 million in tax breaks for a huge, mysterious new development across from a shuttered Toys R Us warehouse. … The developer, which incorporated with the state four months earlier, went […]
Law profs Charlie Silver, David Hyman, and Bernard Black have published Fictions and Facts: Medical Malpractice Litigation, Physician Supply, and Health Care Spending in Texas Before and after HB 4. Note the study's findings in the abstract below: This article, written for a symposium issue of the Texas Tech Law Review, summarizes our research on […]
That's the topic of a bluntly-titled article — Taxing Rich Dead People to Tackle Student Loan Debt — by law prof Victoria J. Haneman. The abstract follows. (Note in particular the stats in the second paragraph of the abstract concerning Millennials' financial situation.) Once upon a time, there was a generation of indentured servants called […]
Law prof Rhonda Wasserman has written Ascertainability: Prose, Policy, and Process. "Ascertainability" is a judge-made doctrine about, among other things, whether a would-be class representative must prove that there is an administratively feasible means of identifying class members before the court may certify a case as a class action. Here's the abstract: One of the most […]