by Paul Alan Levy Eugene Volokh has a short article this morning about the brief concurring opinion filed by an appellate judge in Breen v. Holmes , 2017 WL 6133325 (La. App. Dec. 7, 2017). The case concerned statements made on social media about a controversial decision by prosecutors not to pursue charges against someone […]
As we enter into the holiday season's orgy of consumerism, you will want to avoid buying toys that risk killing or maiming kids. U.S. PIRG has published it's 32nd annual toy safety report, Trouble in Toyland, to help you do that.
Many flood-damaged cars are all over the country in light of hurricanes Harvey and Irma, and some of them are being foisted on unsuspecting consumers. The Consumer Federation of America has some tips to avoid being duped.
Read The Games They Will Play: Tax Games, Roadblocks, and Glitches Under the New Legislation, by 13 tax law scholars/practitioners. Here is the abstract: This report describes various tax games, roadblocks, and glitches in the tax legislation currently before Congress. The complex rules proposed in the House and Senate bills will allow new tax games and […]
Take a look at the Ninth Circuit's decision today in Roberts v. AT&T Mobility. Here's the court's description of the dispute: Plaintiffs—AT&T customers and putative class representatives—contracted with AT&T for wireless data service plans. Their contracts included arbitration agreements. Plaintiffs allege AT&T falsely advertised that its mobile service customers could use “unlimited data,” but actually “throttled”—intentionally slowed […]
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, […]
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 […]
by Jeff Sovern The tweet reads: Fines and penalties against Wells Fargo Bank for their bad acts against their customers and others will not be dropped, as has incorrectly been reported, but will be pursued and, if anything, substantially increased. I will cut Regs but make penalties severe when caught cheating! If the CFPB continued […]