Tanya J. Monestier of Buffalo has written Amazon’s Dirty Little Secret, 69 Villanova Law Review 521 (2024). Here’s the abstract: You need new earbuds because one of yours just went missing. You log onto Amazon and scroll through the endless array of options. You finally select a pair “Sold by” Amazon and click “Buy Now.” […]
Author Archives: Jeff Sovern
Here, at the Poverty Law Center. Here’s an excerpt (footnote omitted): * * * I am increasingly worried about where we are headed today. After decades of more and more and more lending, the American people now have a significant debt burden. Yet there is no shortage of venture capital, private equity, and other pools […]
Michael Z. Green of Texas A&M has written Expanding the Ban on Forced Arbitration to Race Claims, 72 Kansas Law Review 455 (2024). Here’s the abstract: When Congress passed the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act (“EFASASHA”) in March 2022, it signaled a major retreat from the Supreme Court’s broad enforcement […]
Here’s the announcement: NACA 2025 Consumer Law Summer Fellowship Program The National Association of Consumer Advocates (NACA) are seeking motivated law students to apply for our Summer Consumer Law Fellowship Program. Interested students should arrange an internship position, contingent on funding, with a Legal Services/ Public Interest Organization’s consumer law unit or a private consumer […]
Craig Cowie of Montana has written Creating Compliance Climates, 75 UC Law Journal (2024). Here’s the abstract: Relatively few regulated entities are the targets of enforcement activity or otherwise have direct contact with regulators. Given that absence of direct contact, this Article posits that regulators influence behavior by creating “compliance climates” that project regulators’ priorities into […]
So reports PHILIP MARCELO of the Associated Press here. This isn’t the first time a company has changed course in an arbitration demand after adverse publicity. Wells Fargo had actually won a motion to send a case to arbitration arising out of its unauthorized account scandal back in 2016, before settling its class action for […]
Here (behind paywall but available on Lexis). Here’s a quote from Georgetown’s Adam Levitin that appears in the article: “Delay is incredibly profitable to regulated firms seeking to avoid regulation,” Levitin said. “It really doesn’t matter that they’ll lose in the end. That can mean billions of dollars of additional revenue from practices that the […]
USA Today has the story here. I wonder if Disney will back off after its public relations black eye.
Here (behind paywall). it would be a ballot referendum. The argument in favor of the referendum is that it would protect clients from lawyers charging excessive fees. Here’s an excerpt from the article: Many legal experts said a ceiling of 20 percent would make it financially difficult for many lawyers to take on complex cases […]
Christopher Lewis Peterson of Utah and Jeffrey Paul Ehrlich of St. Thomas University and McGuireWoods LLP have written Corrupt Joint Ventures in the Market for Residential Real-Estate-Settlement Services. Here’s the abstract: Closing costs in residential-real-estate sales have long acted as a significant barrier to American home ownership. In the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act of 1974 […]