Law profs Andrew Bradt and D. Theodore Rave have written Aggregation on Defendants' Terms: Bristol-Myers Squibb and the Federalization of Mass Tort Litigation. Here is the abstract: Although it is destined for the personal-jurisdiction canon, the Supreme Court’s 8-1 decision in Bristol-Myers Squibb v. Superior Court does little to clarify that notoriously hazy doctrine. It does, […]
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An Obama administration proposal that would have required airlines disclose checked and carry-on bag fees at the start of a ticket purchase rather than later is being dropped by the Department of Transportation. The Associated Press story, via the Chicago Tribune, is here.
An op-ed in The Washington Post reports: The debate surrounding the Federal Communications Commission’s effort to revise the net neutrality rules has been heated and intense. Spurred by privacy advocates and late-night talk show hosts alike, the FCC’s rulemaking process received millions of unique comments, and drew the kind of national attention usually reserved for […]
CNBC reports: "Congress has it in for consumer protections enacted by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. A congressional resolution introduced Friday in the House would kill the CFPB's new rule aimed at making sure borrowers of so-called payday loans can afford to repay their debt." The full article is here.
We do consumer law and policy here. Most of what we discuss is about laws and policies that will help or hurt consumers in this or that fairly modest way. But the tax bills passed by the House and Senate, or any compromise in between, if enacted and signed by our loathsome president, would harm […]
We do consumer law and policy here. Most of what we discuss is about laws and policies that will help or hurt consumers in this or that fairly modest way. But the tax bills passed by the House and Senate, or any compromise in between, if enacted and signed by our loathsome president, would harm […]
November 22, 2017 – Tobacco Companies to Begin Issuing Court-Ordered Statements in Tobacco Racketeering Suit November 22, 2017 – Former Pharmacy Compliance Director Pleads Guilty to Introducing Adulterated Drugs into Interstate Commerce and Conspiracy to Defraud the United States November 8, 2017 – District Court Enters Order Against Los Angeles Area Telemarketing Companies and Their […]
USA Today reports on plans to sue the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau over its rule on payday lending. As the article epxlians, "The new rule requires providers of payday loans, auto title loans, and other small-dollar advances to predetermine whether borrowers can afford to repay the debts. The rule also limits lender efforts to debit borrowers' checking accounts, a […]
by Paul Alan Levy In a decision issued on Tuesday in Signature Management Team v. Doe, the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit implicitly adopted the majority rule followed in the state courts that have addressed the issue, holding that a plaintiff seeking to identify an anonymous defendant in order to pursue litigation over […]
A health products company called Health Research Laboratories and its owner Kramer Duhon have agreed to settle charges by the Federal Trade Commission and the State of Maine that they deceived consumers with promises that their products could treat everything from arthritis to memory loss. The proposed federal court order announced today bars the defendants from […]