That's the name of this thoughtul essay by law professor Adam Levitin (pictured below) in the American Banker.
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by Brian Wolfman Yes, according to this study issued by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Urban Institute. To oversimplify, the Affordable Care Act's employer mandate requires employers with over 50 employees to provide their full-time employees with reasonably priced health insurance that meets the ACA's minimum requirements (or to pay penalties if they don't comply […]
Tattoos are popular. Temporary tattoos are safe (and, by definition, non-permanent) alternatives to permanent tattoos, right? Not necessarily, says the FDA. They can have serious negative, long-term health consequences, such as allergic sensitivity, scarring, and sensitivity to UV exposure from sunlight.
Some of our readers may know about a case pending in the Supreme Court called POM Wonderful v. Coca-Cola. In that case, POM Wonderful, which markets drinks containing pomegranate juice, sued Coke under the Lanham Act, claiming that Coke has deceptively marketed products as containing lots of healthy pomegranate juice when in fact they contain almost […]
Paul told you that the law book publisher Aspen Publishers had demanded –through a licensing scheme aimed at getting around copyright law's first-sale doctrine –that purchasers return books they had bought from Aspen at the end of the semester. Why? What better way to dry up the used-book market and increase profits in new books. […]
by Brian Wolfman Under a 2012 Obama administration rule — which survived an airline industry challenge in the courts — airline consumers are told, up front, the total cost of an airline ticket — that is, the base airfare, mandatory fees, and the taxes. The breakdown comes later. The idea is that if all the […]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today issued this snapshot report on older Americans' mortgage debt. The agency's introduction provides a nice overview: Rising mortgage debt is threatening the retirement security of millions of older Americans. In general, older consumers are carrying more debt, including mortgage, credit card, and even student loan debt, into their retirement […]
With four judges dissenting from en banc rehearing and the three original panel members explaining why they think they were right the first time around. Read today's opinions here. The dissenters, in an opinion written by Judge Thomas Ambro, say that the federal rules committee should take up the issues raised by the panel's decision. […]
That's the title of this article by Katelyn Polantz. The survey says that big private law firms have the greatest disparities, and with smaller private firms have smaller disparities, with men making more than women in both settings. But there's this: Public interest law and solo practices were the only job settings where the median […]