You can get notices via email of government recalls of various products. You don't have to get notices for everything regulated by the relevant agency. For instance, you can get recall notices that concern only the make and model of the car that you own. To sign up for emails from the Consumer Product Safety […]
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Five U.S. senators, led by former Connecticut Attorney General (now Senator) Richard Blumenthal, has called on the Fed and the FDIC to ban payday lending by federally regulated banks. The Consumerist has a nice write up.
This tax advice from Holly Patreus, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's head of Servicemember Affairs, is directed at members of the military and their families, but much of the advice is useful to consumers generally.
by Paul Alan Levy I often write in this space about baseless lawsuits brought by businesses to suppress criticism, although at the same time I have acknowledged that, sometimes, litigation may be a sound response to baseless attacks that are having a genuine untoward impact on reputation. In this interesting blog post on a web […]
This week, the Supreme Court decided Already v. Nike. There, in a trademark suit instituted by Nike, Already counterclaimed that Nike's trademark on its "Air Force 1" sneakers is invalid. Applying the Court's standard for when a once justificiable case becomes moot under Article III's case-or-controversy requirement — “a defendant claiming that its voluntary compliance […]
In an en banc ruling released today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the federal Medical Device Amendments do not preempt a patient's tort claim alleging that that manufacturer violated its state-law duty to warn of dangers when it did not report "adverse events" to the FDA, as required by […]
We just told you about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's new rules to curtail high-risk consumer mortgages. The CFPB has just issued this informative press release, a fact sheet on the new rules, and a summary of the ability-to-repay and qualified mortgage rule. Here are the key attributes of the ability-to-repay rule: Financial information has to be […]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau thinks that people should not take on mortgages that they cannot afford. As explained in this Washington Post article, the CFPB today will issue new rules to protect consumers from high-risk mortgage borrowing. Among other things, the rules will define a "qualified mortgage" and say that a consumer cannot obtain […]
Consistent with rulings of other circuits, the Second Circuit held today, in Purdue Pharma v. Commonwealth of Kentucky, that a state's parens patriae action is not removable from state court to federal court as a "class action" under the Class Action Fairness Act. (A parens patriae action is one in which the state or other government […]