Guest post by Deborah Kopald [Deborah Kopald (BA, Harvard; MBA, MIT Sloan School of Management) is an environmental health and public policy consultant and author who has developed and overseen the passage of legislative initiatives and has served as a guest expert at various media outlets. In 2013, she organized and moderated The Conference on Corporate Interference with Science and Health in New […]
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Eric Goldman of Santa Clara and Rebecca Tushnet of Georgetown have written Featuring People in Ads (2014 Edition) from Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases and Materials (2014 edition). Here's the abstract: This is a book chapter from the 2014 edition of a casebook, Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases and Materials, by Rebecca Tushnet and Eric […]
That's the topic of Alan Morrison's wide-ranging article entitled Saved by the Supreme Court: Rescuing Corporate America.
Yesterday, Google agreed with the Federal Trade Commission to pay $19 million to consumers whose children allegedly were misled into making purchases in the Android "app store." As this article by Cecilia Kang explains: Google made it too easy for children to use Android phones to buy items ranging from 99 cents to $200 in […]
That's the name of this new report by the National Consumer Law Center. Here's the Center's overview: The U.S. Department of Education refers every eligible defaulted student loan debt to private debt collection agencies. Collectors are hired not only to collect money, but also to communicate with borrowers about options to resolve their debt, creating […]
The New Orleans Times-Picayune has the details about today's 153-page ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Yesterday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau warned credit-card companies through this Bulletin not to attract new customers with deceptive interest-rate deals that are too good to be true. Here's how CFPB head Richard Cordray put it: Credit card offers that lure in consumers and then hit them with surprise charges are against the law. Before […]
I was surprised to learn, as the National Law Journal reported today: The recent settlement of the long-running legal dispute over modernization of the U.S. Supreme Court building included a pledge by the government not to give the contractor any negative ratings. Read more here (subscription required). I imagine it's unusual to see an entity […]
I thought our readers might be interested in this story by legal reporter Adam Liptak about how some facts are determined in the Supreme Court. Like any court, the Supreme Court wants to understand the facts relevant to the legal issues. It also wants to know how its decision, one way or the other, might […]
Check out this story from a recent episode of This American Life, with a tale of what happens in court when a debtor being sued insists on seeing evidence of the debt.