Opnions here.
Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them. If at all possible, we must interpret the Act in a way that is consistent with the former, and avoids the latter. Section 36B can fairly be read consistent with what we see as Congress’s plan, and that is the […]
Guest Post by Professors David Horton & Andrea Cann Chandrasekher: We recently posted our draft article, After the Revolution: An Empirical Study of Consumer Arbitration, 104 Geo. L.J. — (forthcoming 2015) on the Social Science Research Network. On June 22, well-known corporate defense lawyers Alan S. Kaplinsky and Mark J. Levin published a critique of […]
Here. (HT: Gregory Gauthier)
As the AP reports (via Huffington Post): A federal court has ruled in favor of tough new regulations aimed at career training programs, dealing a major blow to the for-profit college industry. In an opinion released Tuesday, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled the Education Department has the right to demand […]
The Department of Justice this week charged a payday lender with conspiracy to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud, and mail fraud, and aiding and abetting mail fraud. Although there is even more, here is the gist of the government's case: According to the […]
The Electronic Privacy Information Center, a privacy rights group, complained to the Federal Trade Commission on Monday about a new Uber new policy that gives it the right to track users when they are not currently using the Uber app.The privacy policy is scheduled to go into effect on July 15. USA Today explains: Under […]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has released its latest supervision report outlining the illegal practices uncovered by the CFPB in the first four months of 2015. It found problems with • dual-tracking at mortgage servicers that could mislead consumers to believe their trial modifications were canceled, • lack of quality control measures at consumer reporting […]
Amy Schmitz of Colorado has written Secret Consumer Scores and Segmentations: Separating Consumer 'Haves' from 'Have-Nots', Michigan State Law Review, p. 1411 (2014). Here is the abstract: “Big Data” is big business. Data brokers profit by tracking consumers’ information and behavior both on- and offline and using this collected data to assign consumers evaluative scores […]
David Savage at the LA Times has this article quickly summarizing the big Supreme Court cases still pending this Term, as well as those recently decided.