Quoting from the CFPB's press release issued yesterday: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released the results of a first-of-its-kind national survey on the financial well-being of U.S. consumers that showed that more than 40 percent of U.S. adults struggle to make ends meet. The survey provides measurements and insights on the financial well-being of specific […]
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The National Law Journal has published this debate/discussion between corporate litigator (and sometimes lawyer for the Chamber of Commerce lawyer) Andy Pincus and this blog's Deepak Gupta. (Possibly behind a paywall.)
In Class Actions in the Era of Trump: Trends and Developments in Class Certification and Related Issues, law profs Jack Coffee and Alexi Lahav just that. Here's the abstract: In this memorandum prepared for the Annual ABA National Institute on Class Actions, Professors Coffee and Lahav review and assess developments in class certification over recent years, […]
Jeff noted a few days ago that a credit union had filed a class action against Equifax. This article (possibly behind a paywall) by Amanda Bronstad discusses that class action some detail, plus another as well. Here's an excerpt: Summit Credit Union in Madison, Wisconsin, has brought a class action on behalf of all credit unions that have had to […]
Health reporter Phil Galewitz explains that The Trump Administration plans to shut down the federal health insurance exchange for 12 hours during all but one Sunday in the upcoming Obamacare open enrollment season. The shutdown will occur from midnight until noon every Sunday except Dec. 10. The Department of Health and Human Services will also shut down the federal […]
by Paul Alan Levy In my blog post yesterday about developments in the litigation over the search warrant to DreamHost, I recounted the encouraging signs from DC Superior Court Chief Judge Morin’s written order and colloquys with counsel during oral argument at a hearing this week about his determination to protect the privacy rights of […]
The republican leadership is trying to rush the Graham-Cassidy bill through the Senate so quickly that the Congressional Budget Office will be unable to do its normal, full-scale analysis of the bill. So, by the time the Senate votes next Wednesday, the CBO won't be able to tell us how many people would have health […]
That's the topic of this article by law prof Nathan Cortez. Here's the abstract: The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) does not expressly prohibit companies from marketing or promoting drugs for unapproved, "off-label" uses. The FDA itself acknowledges that off-label promotion is not a "prohibited act" under the statute, or an element of any such […]
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by Paul Alan Levy Late last week, DC Superior Court Chief Judge Robert Morin issued an opinion explaining his oral ruling at last month’s hearing on a search warrant issued to DreamHost demanding production of its files pertaining to DisruptJ20.org, and rejecting the rival proposed orders filed by the prosecutors and by DreamHost. We were […]