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Author Archives: Jeff Sovern
The "INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON CONSUMER LAW AND PRACTICE, published by the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, has issued a call for papers. The deadline is September 1. More information below the fold.
Nancy S. Kim of California Western has written Exploitation by Wrap Contracts — Click 'Agree', 39 California Bar IP Journal, no. 2, pp. 10-17 (2014). Here is the abstract: A spate of news articles involving online agreements has made headlines recently. They provide cautionary tales of the brave new world of wrap contracts where unwitting users […]
My co-author, Dee Pridgen of Wyoming, took time out from updating her treatise to report on a recent New Mexico decision, State ex rel King v. B&B Investment Group, Inc., 2014 WL 2893304 (N.M. June 26, 2014). Here's her comment: In the case, the State AG successfully sued a “signature loan” company that was selling small […]
by Jeff Sovern Here. The New Media Advocacy Project (N-Map) and Fordham Law School’s Feerick Center for Social Justice in conjunction with MFY Legal Services, Inc., and Pro Bono Net, along with other organizations, have created a series of short, animated videos to help consumers being sued in debt collection cases. I watched a couple […]
Woodrow Hartzog of Samford's Cumberland School of Law and Stanford's Center for Internet and Society and Daniel J. Solove of George Washington have written The Scope and Potential of FTC Data Protection, 83 George Washington Law Review (2015, Forthcoming). Here is the abstract: For more than fifteen years, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has regulated privacy […]
On Monday, Brian posted a link to Linda Mullenix's article, Ending Class Actions as We Know Them. But Professor Mullenix has more thoughts on aggregate litigation, appearing in Reflections of a Recovering Aggregationist, 15 U. Nev. L. Rev., (2014 Forthcoming). Here's the abstract: The past fifty years have experienced a radical reformation of civil litigation in […]
Debra Pogrund Stark of John Marshall, Jessica M. Choplin a DePaul psychologist, Joseph A. Mikels, also a DePaul psychologist, and Amber Schonbrun McDonnell have written Complex Decision-Making and Cognitive Aging Call for Enhanced Protection of Seniors Contemplating Reverse Mortgages, 46 Arizona State Law Journal (2014). Here is the abstract: This article explains what reverse mortgages […]
by Jeff Sovern Here. To see why it is important to keep the CFPB's budget out of the appropriations process (just as with the other bank regulators), here's an excerpt from one of our posts from 2011 (the more things change, . . . ): To see why this matters, you have only to read New […]
Elizabeth De Armond of Chicago-Kent has written Preventing Preemption: Finding Space for States to Regulate Consumers’ Credit Reports. Here is the abstract: The Great Recession awoke state legislators to the power of individuals’ credit reports to hinder economic opportunities. Many legislators would like to assuage the effects of bad historical events on the futures of […]