The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has produced this short video on vehicle recalls.
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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 […]
Consumer reporter Michelle Singletary has written this article warning consumers about potential car-rental snafus, with a focus on how to insure the car. Some of her key tips: ●Double-check ahead of time what your personal auto policy covers for a rental, including whether you’re covered for “loss of use,” which is a charge you could […]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Department of Justice yesterday resolved an action with American Honda Finance Corporation concerning discretionary auto loan pricing and compensation practices. The CFPB explains: "Honda’s past practices resulted in thousands of African-American, Hispanic, and Asian and Pacific Islander borrowers paying higher interest rates than white borrowers for their auto loans, […]
by Paul Alan Levy In its decision issued last week about the application of trademark law to the operation of online search engines, Multi Time Machine v. Amazon the Ninth Circuit has taken a dangerous step backwards. The case might, however, prove to be the vehicle by which that court wipes out the bad precedent […]