by Stephen Gardner The Board of Directors of the National Association of Consumer Advocates adopted the Third Edition of its Standards and Guidelines for Litigating and Settling Class Actions on May 13 (Download here), continuing a tradition of setting high standards for the ways consumer class actions are handled that began with the first Guidelines adopted in […]
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By Stephen Gardner I echo what Alan White said, but have thoughts of my own. The first of which is: Oh lordy. This case may be the high-(low-?)water mark for Justice Scalia's willingness to manipulate reality and the Court's jurisdiction to get the result he wants. As the dissent (quoted in part below) sets out […]
By Steve Gardner, Center for Science in the Public Interest My most-excellent colleague at CSPI, Erika Knudsen, wrote a great piece for CSPI's Food Day blog. Check it out. It's a great read overall, and as an extra added bonus, it includes a link to a recent Colbert Report segment mocking Coke for Vitaminwater. Spoiler alert–the […]
Beef Products, Inc., which saw a fair deal of public attention drawn to one of its beef products (something it calls "lean, finely textured beef" but which was popularly known as "pink slime") has sued ABC and others for, in essence, being mean to it. It filed a 263-page complaint in state court in South Dakota. […]