As we enter into the holiday season's orgy of consumerism, you will want to avoid buying toys that risk killing or maiming kids. U.S. PIRG has published it's 32nd annual toy safety report, Trouble in Toyland, to help you do that.
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Many flood-damaged cars are all over the country in light of hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and some of them are being foisted on unsuspecting consumers. The Consumer Federation of America has some tips to avoid being duped.
Read The Games They Will Play: Tax Games, Roadblocks, and Glitches Under the New Legislation, by 13 tax law scholars/practitioners. Here is the abstract: This report describes various tax games, roadblocks, and glitches in the tax legislation currently before Congress. The complex rules proposed in the House and Senate bills will allow new tax games and […]
Take a look at the Ninth Circuit's decision today in Roberts v. AT&T Mobility. Here's the court's description of the dispute: Plaintiffs—AT&T customers and putative class representatives—contracted with AT&T for wireless data service plans. Their contracts included arbitration agreements. Plaintiffs allege AT&T falsely advertised that its mobile service customers could use “unlimited data,” but actually “throttled”—intentionally slowed […]
Law profs Andrew Bradt and D. Theodore Rave have written Aggregation on Defendants' Terms: Bristol-Myers Squibb and the Federalization of Mass Tort Litigation. Here is the abstract: Although it is destined for the personal-jurisdiction canon, the Supreme Court’s 8-1 decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court does little to clarify that notoriously hazy doctrine. It does, […]
We do consumer law and policy here. Most of what we discuss is about laws and policies that will help or hurt consumers in this or that fairly modest way. But the tax bills passed by the House and Senate, or any compromise in between, if enacted and signed by our loathsome president, would harm […]
We do consumer law and policy here. Most of what we discuss is about laws and policies that will help or hurt consumers in this or that fairly modest way. But the tax bills passed by the House and Senate, or any compromise in between, if enacted and signed by our loathsome president, would harm […]
If you want to learn what the CFPB would look like if republican plans to defang it were enacted, law prof Chris Peterson has done a study for you: Choosing Corporations Over Consumers: The Financial Choice Act of 2017 and the CFPB. Here is the abstract: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is the U.S. Government’s […]
This article by C. Ryan Barber says that U.S. Justice Department lawyers convinced [U.S. district judge Timothy] Kelly that the Federal Vacancies Reform Act should control the outcome of the leadership dispute. That law gives the president wide authority to install Senate-confirmed acting heads at executive agencies. Kelly said the text of the vacancies law applies […]
That's the topic of this split decision today from the Sixth Circuit.