That's the topic of this article by Karen Sloan. Here's an excerpt: A group of Harvard law students aims to pressure Kirkland & Ellis to drop its use of mandatory arbitration for employees by encouraging their classmates to boycott the firm during the upcoming summer associate recruiting cycle. Organizers of the boycott hope that starving the firm […]
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Read Wells Fargo says its promises to restore consumer trust were just ‘puffery.’ But now they look like lies by Michael Hiltzik. Here's an excerpt that sets the theme: If you’ve ever wondered how businesses can get away with making transparently false or deceptive claims about themselves or their products — “The Best Tasting Juice in America,” […]
We've posted many times on the NFL concussion class-action settlement. Go here, for instance. Now there's this story in USA Today saying that some injured former players who qualify for payments under the settlement are getting little or nothing after the lawyers, health-care providers, and other (purported?) lien holders take what they say is theirs (and for other reasons).
We've posted here many times about the massive and growing student-loan debt in this country. Two new pieces might interest our readers. First, Maine is so interested in getting educated people to move to Maine that it will refund most (and often all) student loan repayments through a state tax credit. The program applies to […]
That's the topic of as Glass-Steagall's Demise Inevitable and Unimportant? by law prof Arthur Wilmarth. Here's the abstract: The demise of the Glass-Steagall Act was the result of affirmative policy decisions by federal regulators and Congress, and it was not the inevitable byproduct of market forces. Economic disruptions and financial innovations posed serious challenges to the viability […]
Law prof Albert Lin has written President Trump's War on Regulatory Science. Here is the abstract: The Trump administration has taken numerous actions that appear hostile to scientists, scientific research, and scientific data, leading some observers to assert that a war on science is underway. A more precise characterization is that the Trump administration is engaging […]
The Kentucky Supreme Court's unanimous decision is Northern Kentucky Area Development District v. Snyder. The first two paragraphs of the court's opinion summarizes its reasoning: Kentucky Revised Statute (“KRS”) 336.700(2) prohibits employers from conditioning employment on an existing employee’s or prospective employee’s agreement to “waive, arbitrate, or otherwise diminish any existing or future claim, right, or […]
California's net neutrality law was just signed into law. The Justice Department says it will sue to invalidate California's law on federal preemption grounds. Read about it here.
That's the topic of this article by consumer reporter Michelle Singletary. It includes this hypothetical underscoring how the cost of credit can differ based on one's credit score: Let’s look at a person taking out an auto loan who has a subprime credit score below 600 (on a scale of 300 to 850, the highest score being […]