…is the lesson of this informative interview from NPR's Fresh Air, which explains why it's risky to transport oil long distances in rail cars designed in the 1960s for non-flammable products. Forty-seven people were killed when flaming oil from a 2013 derailment in Canada engulfed an entire restaurant. Terrifying. You can listen to the story […]
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As our readers know, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau just issued its DoddFrank-mandated study on consumer arbitration. The CFPB has announced that on Thursday, April 2, 2015, it will conduct a "roundtable" on the topic. If you want to attend you must RSVP by sending an email to communityaffairs@cfpb.gov. The roundtable will take place at […]
Many posts on this blog have noted the difficulty in achieving consumer protection through disclosure (including disclosure through product labeling). If that interests you, you may want to read Science-Based Food Labels: Improving Regulations and Preventing Consumer Deception Through Limited Information Disclosure Requirements by Joshua Dhyani. (Note that, at page 33, Dhyani's piece prominently displays […]
The D.C. Court of Appeals has ruled that under District law, a decision enforcing an arbitration clause is immediately appealable. This ruling, based on a D.C. arbitration reform law from 2007, corrects a pro-arbitration imbalance that had previously existed in the District and continues to exist in most jurisdictions: the denial of a motion to […]
by Paul Alan Levy In a two-page per curiam ruling, the Fifth Circuit has affirmed the decision of Judge Sam Cummings of the Northern District of Texas to dismiss, on the face of the complaint, Lanham Act claims brought by Clark Baker and his “Office of Scientific and Medical Justice” against a blogger who created […]
Today a broad group of educational, legal, human rights, and media organizations sued the NSA over what it calls "Upstream surveillance," under which, the complaint alleges, the NSA vacuums up for review all data that travels across the internet, regardless of whether that data comes from or to a specific NSA target. Key allegations from […]
Obama this morning signed a memorandum to "clamp down" on student loan servicers, the Boston Herald reports: More than 40 million Americans are in debt thanks to their education, and most of their loans come from Uncle Sam. So President Barack Obama is aiming to clamp down on the private companies that service federal student […]
That's the name of this article by Peter Whoriskey. Note in particular the long list of "unnatural" ingredients at the end of the article that find their way into foods advertised as "natural." [HT to Michele Simon]
by Steve Gardner My firm, the Stanley Law Group, filed a class action today against Toyota, Ford, and General Motors because of a defect that allows cars to be hacked and control wrested away from the driver. The Complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. You can download the […]
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