Guest post by Julie Murray (Public Citizen Litigation Group) Some states have recently adopted, and dozens of others have considered, laws that require food manufacturers to disclose whether their products have been made through genetic engineering (GE). These laws would at least give consumers useful information to guide their purchasing decisions amid the federal delay […]
Jonathan Cohn reports that smoking in the U.S. has hit an historic low. He explains: New survey data, which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Tuesday morning, suggests that just 15.2 percent of American adults are now using cigarettes on a regular basis. That smoking rate is nearly 2 percentage points lower […]
by Paul Alan Levy Louisiana lawyer David Groner has made a few mistakes. Which was the most serious? David Groner's Misconduct Toward Clients At some point time before January 18, 2007, one of Groner’s associates filed a lawsuit on behalf of some clients in the wrong venue; the defendants moved to dismiss. Groner’s firm nevertheless […]
We discussed last week the pending petitions in the Supreme Court regarding Obamacare coverage for contraception. Yesterday, Judge Richard Leon of federal district court in D.C. ruled in favor of contraception-mandate challenger March for Life (a pro-life, non-religious non-profit) and enjoined the federal government from enforcing the mandate against it, ruling that the mandate violated […]
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…reports The Consumerist. We all know the background: airlines have been consolidating into fewer and fewer airlines in recent years. Since July, no fewer than 75 complaints have charged that the airlines violated federal antitrust laws; according to The Consumerist, United, American, Delta and Southwest now account for 80% of all domestic air travel. Here's […]
We celebrated Dodd-Frank's 5-year anniversary on July 21 2015, by aggregating some news coverage of the event. You may also want to read a negative account of the law contained in law professor Todd Zywicki's congressional testimony, entitled The Dodd-Frank Act Five Years Later: Are We More Stable? Here is the abstract: This congressional testimony […]
Jennifer Ann Drobac of Indiana's McKinney School has written The Myth of 'Legal' Consent in a Consumer Culture in FACETS OF CONSUMERISM IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY (Anand Pawar, ed., Twenty First Century Publications, 2015). Here is the abstract: This Essay challenges the legal default of unquestioned human capacity for consent. It posits that legal capacity […]
…reports Bloomberg Business. A recent decision by the Second Circuit (on which the court this month rejected a motion to reconsider) restricts the so-called marketplace lenders from bypassing state usury laws by partnering with banks in states where there are no such rules. The ruling effectively would stop a practice whereby the lenders can make […]
As Reason.com reports, in a recent case in federal court in northern California, Officials sought the right to track suspects' Cell Site Location Information, or CSLI, for 60 days without gaining a warrant. Such location information lets law enforcement track the whereabouts of our cell phones in relation to cell towers. . . . The […]