by Jeff Sovern When last we left my daughter, she was in Atlanta, bagless, and Delta was clueless about where it was. On Sunday, she returned to the Atlanta airport for her return flight. Fortunately, checking in went faster than for her departure flight because she didn’t have a bag to check! She cleared security, […]
by Jeff Sovern Thursday night, my daughter waved goodbye to her suitcase at LaGuardia as she flew to Atlanta for a wedding. She arrived in Atlanta at 10:30 pm, but her bag was a no show. She optimistically, but as it happened, pointlessly, stayed at the airport until 1:00 am at the advice of Delta […]
Here, from Business Insider. Painful reading, especially for those of us in education.
For the second time in the space of two weeks, the Supreme Court issued a narrow, but unanimous, decision against a company seeking arbitration. Today's decision in Southwest Airlines v. Saxon, like the one two weeks ago in Morgan v. Sundance, Inc., involved an employment arbitration agreement, not a consumer agreement. And the specific issue […]
Becoming a Federal Judge: What Consumer and Civil Justice Attorneys Need to Know June 14, 3:00 p.m.–4:00 p.m. ET Pricing Members: no charge Nonmembers: no charge but must be approved (if you have not yet been approved to attend NACA webinars, you must email training@consumeradvocates.org to be vetted to attend) The Biden administration has demonstrated a […]
National Consumer Law Center and the Electronic Privacy and Information Center released a report describing the problem that 1 billion monthly scam robocalls create for U.S. telephone subscribers, the causes of the problem, and suggested resolutions to the problem. Here is the Executive Summary: Every month, more than one billion scam robocalls designed to steal […]
Mateusz Grochowski of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law; Yale Law School; Polish Academy of Sciences – Institute of Legal Studies; Agnieszka Jabłonowska of the University of Lodz – Faculty of Law and Administration; European University Institute – Department of Law (LAW); Francesca Lagioia of the European University Institute – Department […]
New Mexico recently enacted a 36% rate cap on consumer loans. Among the remarks that motivated them to do so was the following: Thank you Madam Chair, Members of the Committee. My name is Will Hancock and I’m a student at the University of New Mexico School of Law. I had the displeasure of working […]
Here. Excerpt: Not just in Utah, but in Virginia and Washington, and Minnesota, tech companies have provided draft language that led to the introduction of industry-friendly privacy bills, according to legislators The Markup interviewed and previous reporting by Protocol. Big Tech funded nonprofits like TechNet, the State Privacy and Security Coalition, and the Internet Association have […]
John P. Hunt of UC-Davis has written The Failed Legal Case Against Student Debt Jubilee. Here is the abstract: This paper reviews and rebuts the arguments presented to date that the Executive lacks authority to engage in mass student loan cancellation. Legality skeptics have presented no compelling argument that the relevant statutory text, which authorizes the […]