That's the name of this article by Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute. Here's the abstract: Arizona’s immigration laws have hurt its economy. The 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) attempts to force unauthorized immigrants out of the workplace with employee regulations and employer sanctions. The 2010 Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act […]
by Brian Wolfman The Supreme Court held this morning in Standard Fire Insurance v. Knowles that a named plaintiff's stipulation that the plaintiff class is seeking less than the Class Action Fairness Act's minumum jurisdictional amount does not preclude a federal district court from assuming jurisdiction under the Act. Justice Breyer's unanimous opinion is just […]
In a 6-3 ruling today, the Supreme Court held in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons that the first sale doctrine, which fosters the creation of a secondary market in used copies of copyrighted works by forbidding infringement claims based on the sale or purchase of copies of copyrighted works, applies even if the copyrighted […]
by Jeff Sovern Here's what the Times's Joe Nocera wrote in his column today: [The OCC] is a classic captured regulator. As American Banker pointed out recently, the Promontory Financial Group, a prominent banking consulting firm founded by Eugene Ludwig, a former comptroller of the currency, recently hired the O.C.C.’s general counsel, Julie Williams. And […]
So says The Hill. Of course, that doesn't mean the Republicans will allow the full Senate to vote on the nomination. As for the merits of his nomination (not that that matters to the Republicans), The Hill states: There really haven't been any questions about Cordray's ability to do the job. In fact, he's gotten […]
Dustin A. Zacks of King, Nieves & Zacks PLLC has written Revenge of the Clerks: MERS Confronts County Clerk and Qui Tam Lawsuits, 32 Banking & Financial Services Policy Report No. 1 (2013). Here's the abstract: Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (MERS) has faced unceasing controversy from litigators and scholars for its role in foreclosures, […]
Douglas Ginsburg and Joshua Wright have just written this article on the topic. Here's the abstract: The beginning of a shift toward a more regulatory and less litigation-oriented regime of antitrust enforcement was observable by the mid-1990s, if not earlier. The transition toward this more bureaucratic approach by antitrust enforcement agencies is the subject of […]
Marc Lane Roark of Missouri has written Payment Systems, Consumer Tragedy, and Ineffective Remedies, forthcoming in 86 St. John's Law Review (2013). Here's the abstract: Payment methods like the Starbucks Rewards Card, while imitating liquidity, are challenged by confidence-detracting barriers of too little consumer knowledge and a lack of appropriate remedies. Starbucks operates as a […]
Here. And here's the beginning: Imagine you’ve clicked on your computer screen to accept a contract to purchase a good or service—a contract, you only realize later, that’s straight out of Kafka. The widget you’ve bought turns out to be a nightmare. You take to Yelp.com to complain about your experience—but lo, according to the […]
Here. The report addresses issues of dispute resolution (e.g., for unauthorized charges or fraud), security, and privacy, among others.