From time to time at a gathering of consumer law folks, I poll participants about whether they read consumer law contracts and disclosures. Here, for example, are the results of a survey of consumer law professors asked those questions. Earlier this year, I surveyed the audience at a consumer financial services lawyers, some of whose […]
Author Archives: Jeff Sovern
Reuters’s Allson Frankel has the story here, and also reports on industry opposition. The original petition, as well as the comments, can be read here. Here’s an excerpt from the law professor comment (disclosure: I served on the drafting committee): Multiple studies have demonstrated that consumers do not understand arbitration clauses. In contrast, no study […]
Mark Edwin Burge of Texas A&M has written After FTX: Can the Original Bitcoin Use Case Be Saved?, 72 Kansas Law Review, (2023). Here is the abstract: Bitcoin and the other cryptocurrencies spawned by the innovation of blockchain programming have exploded in prominence, both in gains of massive market value and in dramatic market losses, […]
More about the lower court opinion here. Given the Fifth Circuit’s politics, I’m not sure things will fare any better there, but hope is the thing with feathers. Even the Fifth Circuit must reach the correct decision sometimes.
Here. The discussion draws on Professor Budnitz’s article, New Developments in Payment Systems and Services Affecting Low-Income Consumers: Challenges and Opportunities, Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy (2023).
Here. The Steiger Fellowship program is an ABA-funded paid summer internship that places students in AG’s offices around the country to do consumer protection work.
Here, by Investopedia’s Diccon Hyatt. I particularly like the quote from Dalie Jiminez.
Here, by Christopher Connelly at public radio station KERA
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