The furor last spring over General Mills's attempt to require anyone who used its websites to arbitrate all claims against the company, which led to a highly publicized return to sanity by the company, hasn't deterred on-line retailers from using both "browsewrap" and "clickwrap" contract terms requiring arbitration of claims arising out of on-line transactions. […]
by Jeff Sovern This is not consumer law, but perhaps readers of the blog will appreciate some Civil Procedure humor. I asked my CivPro students to write haikus about the course. Some samples: Minimum contacts Then to hell with sovereignty Now it's personal! I think about you In substance and procedure Isn't that Erie? […]
Catherine Lee Wilson of Nebraska has written Making Prepaid Safe for Consumers: A Framework for Providing Deposit Insurance and Regulation E Protections, Forthcoming in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law. Here's the abstract: General purpose reloadable prepaid cards are part of a larger trend toward a cashless society. This market offers significant benefits […]
…is laid out persuasively here, by fellow CL&P blogger Paul Bland of Public Justice. He demonstrates why forced arbitration contravenes Tea Party principles.
From the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA): October 20: NHTSA urges owners of certain Toyota, Honda, Mazda, BMW, Nissan, and General Motors vehicles to act immediately on recall notices to replace defective Takata airbags. The message comes with urgency, especially for owners of vehicles affected by the regional recalls in the following areas: Florida, […]
Law professor Imre Szalai has written More than Class Action Killers: The Impact of Concepcion and American Express on Employment Arbitration. Here is the abstract: This Article highlights how two recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion and American Express Co. v. Italian Colors Restaurant, although involving class actions, could impact individual […]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has issued this final rule concerning the requirement that financial institutions provide an annual disclosure of their privacy policies to their customers. In some situations, financial institutions will be able to post the information online rather than provide them individually to customers, but only if the institution informs consumers annually […]
A Los Angeles ordinance requires hotel and motel operators to collect information from their guests — including the guest's name and address, number of people in the party, arrival and departure dates, room number, vehicle information, and more — and authorizes law enforcement to inspect this information without a warrant. The Ninth Circuit ruled that […]
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports today: Three widely cited state studies of air emissions at Marcellus Shale gas development sites in Pennsylvania omit measurements of key air toxics and calculate the health risks of just two of more than two dozen pollutants. State regulators and the shale gas drilling industry over the past four years have […]
by Jeff Sovern Here. Disclosure: the story quotes me and discusses my article on cooling-off periods.