Bloomberg reports: Millions of people search online for information about symptoms and prescription drugs. Patterns in their searches might reveal previously unknown side effects of medications. The Food and Drug Administration is talking to Google about how the search engine could help the agency identify previously unknown side effects of medications. Agency officials held a […]
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In October, the Supreme Court will hear a case called Spokeo v. Robins, which poses the question, as formulated by the defendant company, "whether Congress may confer Article III standing upon a plaintiff who suffers no concrete harm, and who therefore could not otherwise invoke the jurisdiction of a federal court, by authorizing a private […]
By Stephen Gardner Nestlé has been sued in California state court for shenanigans involving products of its Gerber division. Nestlé sells a line of products called Gerber Graduates, aimed at parents whose small children have just started eating solid foods. Because parents understandably want to give healthy snacks to their kids, Nestlé wants to grab […]
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has produced this short video on vehicle recalls.
The percentage of adults in the U.S. without health insurance — 11.4 — is at its lowest point since Gallup began tracking the issue in 2008. The uninsured rate has dropped six percentage points since the end of 2013 — right before most Affordable Care Act requirements kicked in. Read about it here.
Law professor and dean Erwin Chemerinsky has written this op-ed about the tone of Justice Scalia's opinions. Here's the beginning: Justice Antonin Scalia is setting a terrible example for young lawyers. Ignore, for now, his jurisprudence, his famously strict originalism; it's his tone that's the problem. I have taught argumentation for many years, first as […]
At http://safeguardsdelayed.org, Public Citizen will keep track, on a daily basis, of regulations that have been held up by the U.S. Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which reviews all significant safety regulations before they are implemented and has been the source of lengthy delays for numerous important regulations. Although OIRA is supposed to complete its review […]
Politico has this story about implementation — or lack thereof — of the 2010 Food Safety Modernization Act. Here is the gist of it: On paper, the law that Congress passed in late 2010 — known as the Food Safety Modernization Act — was bigger than anything since Teddy Roosevelt cleaned up the meatpacking industry. […]
That's the question consumer reporter Jerry Hirsch, with help from the Union of Concerned Scientists, tries to answer in this article.
Deciding a case under the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, the Third Circuit held this week that debt collectors bear the burden of proving that their contacts with third parties fall under an exception to a ban on such contact when pursuing repayment from consumers. The court summarized the case this way: Under the Fair […]