At Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Finance Monitor podcast. Consumer Reports recently issued a report on AI.
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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 […]
Americans for Financial Reform published a report card on how members of Congress have voted so far in this session on financial services issues. The report documents member votes on CFPB-related legislation, including on the 2025 resolutions that repealed agency regulations. It also covers members’ floor votes on crypto-related legislation, including the Genius Act and […]
Recently I took a redeye from California to New York. I paid a bit more for extra leg room in the hope that it would help me sleep. But when I boarded the flight, I discovered a metal box–part of the plane–taking up some of the space under the seat in front of me. The […]
The Center for Justice & Democracy has issued Civil Justice Skewed: The Groups and the Billions Spent Advocating for “Tort Reform.” The study provides “a comprehensive overview of the organizations working in 2026 to limit the legal rights of injured parties, updating [CJ&D’s] prior research in a field that has expanded considerably in recent years.” […]
The ALI is working on a new project, Principles of the Law, Civil Liability for Artificial Intelligence. NYU Professor Mark Geistfeld is the reporter. Alan Kaplinsky interviewed him for Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Finance Monitor podcast about the project and some of AI’s implications for consumer law.