Read about it here. For more information, click on this link to an ABC news report or on the embedded video below. Under the new FDA regs, tanning beds must have a black-box warning about cancer risks and saying that minors should not use them. (A black-box warning is the most serious FDA warning, usually […]
by Paul Alan Levy In an intriguing ruling last week granting relief by consequence of a default judgment, a federal judge in Nevada engaged in a fair amount of sua sponte analysis in paring down the relief sought against the operator of a web site that hosts reviews of colleges and universities. The opinion included […]
That's the question asked by law professor Ann Hodges in Trilogy Redux: Using Arbitration to Rebuild the Labor Movement. Here is the abstract: The Supreme Court is in the midst of a revolution in arbitration jurisprudence comparable to that reflected in the Steelworkers Trilogy in 1960. While the Trilogy was hailed as a major accomplishment […]
The Federal Trade Commission yesterday issued a report on the “fundamental lack of transparency” in the data broker industry. The FTC’s press release provides a good summary: The report, “Data Brokers: A Call for Transparency and Accountability” is the result of a study of nine data brokers, representing a cross-section of the industry, undertaken by […]
Health insurers that were originally wary of participating in the Affordable Care Act's "exchanges" now are changing their tune, seeing the Act as an opportunity for new business, as explained in this article by Reed Abelson.
Scott noted earlier today that the California Supreme Court will hear a case posing the following question: Is a payday lender that is formally owned by a Native American tribe but run by a third-party who keeps most of the proceeds protected by tribal sovereign immunity? So, the U.S. Supreme Court just this morning issued […]
Last week the California Supreme Court granted review in People v. Miami Nation Enterprises, which presents the issue of when a payday lending operation that is formally owned by a Native American tribe but run by a third-party who keeps most of the proceeds is protected by tribal sovereign immunity. The practice of payday lenders […]
by Paul Alan Levy In an opinion issued this morning, the D.C. Circuit unanimously reversed a trial court ruling that compelled several ISP's to provide identifying information for more than a thousand anonymous users who were sued a maker of pornographic movies for allegedly using the BitTorrent protocol to provide access to copies of an […]
Check out this report on the relationship between corporate executive pay and worker pay, and then read this article on the topic by David Lazarus, who points out that the salary of the CEO of CVS Caremark last year was 422 times the median wage of a CVS employee.
Remember the Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 (better known as the CARD Act)? The CARD Act made it more difficult for credit card companies to retroactively increase rates on existing balances or to impose large late fees, and it drastically curbed overlimit fees. The Act also sought to force credit card […]