California's net neutrality law was just signed into law. The Justice Department says it will sue to invalidate California's law on federal preemption grounds. Read about it here.
Todd J. Zywicki of George Mason has written The Behavioral Economics of Behavioral Law & Economics, Journal of Behavioral Economics (2019, Forthcoming). Here is the abstract: Behavioral Law & Economics (BLE) has loudly proclaimed its victory over traditional law & economics methodologies. Nowhere has this proclamation been so loud or self-certain as with respect to claims […]
We have from time to time blogged about non-disparagement clauses inserted into consumer contracts to try to prevent consumers from complaining publicly about a product or service. Yesterday, a district court in Florida, in a case brought by the Federal Trade Commission against weight-loss supplement marketer Roca Labs, granted the FTC's summary judgment motion in a […]
by Jeff Sovern Years ago, I heard the puppet Lambchop (Shari Lewis) sing The Song That Never Ends: This is the song that never endsYes, it just goes on and on my friends.Some people started singing it, not knowing what it was.And they continue singing it forever just because,This is the song that doesn’t end. […]
That's the topic of this article by consumer reporter Michelle Singletary. It includes this hypothetical underscoring how the cost of credit can differ based on one's credit score: Let’s look at a person taking out an auto loan who has a subprime credit score below 600 (on a scale of 300 to 850, the highest score being […]
by Jeff Sovern Regular readers of this blog know that I collect instances of people agreeing to contracts without reading them. Among my examples: Chief Justice Roberts, Judge Posner, Hillary Clinton, and consumer law professors. Now I think we can add FTC Commissioner Noah Phillips to the list, though his remarks are ambiguous enough that […]
Starting today, consumers who are concerned about identity theft or data breaches can freeze their credit and place one-year fraud alerts for free. The Federal Trade Commission explains, here.
American Airlines is threatening to prohibit customers from making changes to nonrefundable tickets if Congress makes good on a proposal to crack down on what critics call unreasonable airline fees. The NYT article is here.
Dee Pridgen is seeking a coauthor/collaborator for her two treatises published by Thomson Reuters, Consumer Protection and the Law and Consumer Credit and the Law. These books have been updated yearly for 30 years and are available both in print and on Westlaw. Her current coauthor, Richard Alderman, Professor Emeritus of the University of Houston […]