In a detailed and informative post entitled Judge Declares Some PACER Fees Illegal but Does Not Go Far Enough, open-courts activist Steve Schultze says explains that Five years ago, in a post called “Making Excuses for Fees on Electronic Public Records,” I described my attempts to persuade the federal Judiciary to stop charging for access […]
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Many of our readers no doubt have read that Scott Pruitt (EPA head and climate change denier) is planning to scrap the Obama Administration's fuel-economy targets aimed at making cars more fuel efficient (and, in turn, having some positive effect on climate change). This article by Evan Halper explains that California plans to stick with the higher […]
Louisville consumer lawyer Ben Carter just wrote this opinion piece for the Louisville Courier-Journal on the Trump Administration’s efforts to roll back state-specific consumer protections on payday lending and student loan debt servicing.
This article says that "[t]he top cop for U.S. consumer finance has decided not to sue a payday loan collector and is weighing whether to drop cases against three payday lenders, said five people with direct knowledge of the matter." "Top cop" for whom?
The National Employment Lawyers Association Institute has just released this report about forced arbitration in the workplace. Here's how the Institute describes the report: Authored by Loyola University New Orleans College of Law Prof. Imre S. Szalai, this groundbreaking report finds that 80 percent of Fortune 100 companies use arbitration in their employment documents, nearly half of […]
This article by Hugo Martin explains: The smartphone video that went viral last year showing a United Airlines passenger being dragged out of an overbooked flight prompted several large airlines to vow to end or dramatically reduce the number of passengers denied a seat. The nation's airlines have made good on that promise. *** or its part, […]
As you may know, the Munger Tolles law firm has backtracked on its effort to force summer associates to sign mandatory, pre-dispute arbitration agreements with the firm. Given the "me too" movement, the firm certainly had a PR problem on its hands. As this article by Meghan Tribe explains: Munger, Tolles & Olson reacted swiftly Sunday afternoon after news of […]
The result today in Cyan v. Beaver County Employees Retirement Fund is interesting, particularly given the legislative trend to provide forum choice to defendants in aggregate litigation (which usually means federal court, because big companies generally prefer federal court). The issues and the Supreme Court's unanimous holding are crisply stated in the first paragraph of Justice Kagan's […]
This interesting article by Paul Demko explains that despite Trump's and the republicans' legislative and regulatory efforts to make the Affordable Care Act economically non-viable, 2017 was the best year yet financially for ACA insurers.
That's the title of this article by Mike Konzcal. Then, read this article in The Hill explaining that "[t]he battle pits moderate Democrats up for reelection this year in states such as Missouri, West Virginia, North Dakota and Montana against Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and other progressives, and comes as the party braces for primary fights between the left and […]