Coverage by the New York Law Journal here and by Inside ARM.com here.
James Surowiecki, The New Yorker’s financial writer, has this interesting analysis this week about how corporate brands are less valuable than they once were – thanks to the proliferation of consumer information.
by Paul Alan Levy Somewhat more than 25 years ago, I represented a federal prisoner named Brett Kimberlin who made a sensational accusation against a sitting Senator who was running for Vice-President – Kimberlin claimed that, during his extensive career as a drug dealer, one of his customers had been a then-law-student who was the […]
Colleen E. Haight of San Jose State University and Derek Thieme of George Mason University's Mercatus Center have written Regulating Automobiles: The Consequences for Consumers. Here is the abstract: Automobiles are ubiquitous. Most Americans take at least one car trip every day to get to work or school or to run household errands. The automobile […]
We don’t often have occasion to praise debt collectors on this site, so it’s worth taking note when a debt collection company does the right thing. As many of you will remember from previous posts (see here and here), an online retailer called KlearGear tried to extort $3500 from its customer John Palmer because his […]
Yesterday, I received an unhappy email from the CEO of the on-line "crowdfunding" site Kickstarter, which regular folks use to raise money for unusual and creative projects and businesses. The email began: On Wednesday night, law enforcement officials contacted Kickstarter and alerted us that hackers had sought and gained unauthorized access to some of our […]
Former Michael Copps is very worried about media consolidation. Apparently spurred by what Copps calls "the stunning announcement that Comcast hopes to buy Time-Warner … for more than $45 billion" — a merger that he says could "run roughshod over consumers" — Copps has penned this lengthy "Dear Journalists" letter in the Columbia Journalism Review. Here's […]
by Jeff Sovern This Times op-ed reports that former patients have sued providers of such therapy under state UDAP laws. As I tell my students, consumer law is everywhere!
The American Banker recently published a story, Courthouse 'Rocket Dockets' Give Debt Collectors Edge Over Debtors, about how consumers feel pressured to settle debt cases after receiving summonses to courthouse settlement conferences with debt collectors. An excerpt: At first glance these sessions resemble legally mandated mediation: they take place in courtrooms and are administered by […]