We received the following announcement: The Conference on Consumer Finance Law (CCFL) invites second year law students to submit abstracts for consideration in an upcoming issue of the Consumer Finance Law Quarterly Report (CFLQR). This initiative is designed to foster emerging scholarship in consumer finance law by pairing selected students with experienced practitioners and scholars […]
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At Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast.
This is a tale of excess. It begins with a demand letter from CopyCat Legal over the signature of its only partner, Daniel DeSouza, threatening to sue Charles Peralo for the use of fourteen celebrity photographs on his various vlogs about those celebrities unless Peralo promptly paid $282,500 as a settlement. In a series of […]
On Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Finance Monitor podcast.
At Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Finance Monitor podcast. Consumer Reports recently issued a report on AI.
The announcement is here and Consumer Finance Monitor has a report here. Chris is a longtime consumer law professor at the University of Utah. Most recently, he has been working on the forthcoming sixth edition of our consumer law casebook, scheduled for publication in time for Spring 2027 classes (the link is to the fifth […]
So reports Corey G. Johnson of Pro Publica in FCC Officials Took Pricey Gifts From Paramount as the Company Needed Approval for Billion-Dollar Deals. That article focuses on the FCC’s regulation of the entertainment industry but the FCC also implements and interprets the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (which is not to say that the deals in question […]
So suggests an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, The Demise of Disparate-Impact Liability, which carries the subhed The Education Department’s decision to eliminate a civil-rights enforcement tool strikes some as hypocritical. Here’s an excerpt: [C]ritics say the administration is relying on the kind of statistical evidence used in disparate-impact cases to crack down on […]
Retired Chief Judge Susan G. Braden, formerly of the United States Court of Federal Claims, has written Quo Vadis—Federal Trade Commission? She argues that the Department of Justice should absorb the FTC. The paper was written before the Court decided Trump v. Slaughter but it anticipated the result. This proposal reminds me of how the […]
Mark Bartholomew of Buffalo and Samuel Becher of the City University of Hong Kong have written a short opinion piece for the Regulatory Review: Consumer Protection Law Was Not Built for Robot Shoppers. Here are the first and last paragraphs: Imagine waking up to find that, while you slept, an artificial intelligence (AI) shopping agent […]