Shmuel I. Becher of Victoria University of Wellington and Anne-Lise Sibony of UCLouvain; TILEC have written In Search of a Lasting Lightbulb Moment: The Law and Policy of Product Obsolescence. Here's the abstract: Firms frequently employ various strategies that make products obsolete after a relatively short time or limited usage (“product obsolescence”). Early product obsolescence harms […]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today issued a final rule implementing the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. All the materials can be found here.
That's the question addressed in Employer Liability for 'Take-Home' COVID-19 by Mark Rothstein and Julia Irzyk (forthcoming in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics). Here is the abstract: Workplace exposure to SARS-CoV-2 has been a source of morbidity and mortality from COVID-19, especially for “essential workers,” such as those employed in health care and […]
Yesterday, a D.C. Superior Court Judge struck down D.C.'s local law moratorium on filing new eviction cases during the COVID-19 pandemic, writing that the eviction filing ban unconstitutionally infringed on landlords' right of access to the courts. The decision strikes down the District's ban on eviction filings, but does not overturn the city's moratorium on actual […]
48 consumer, civil rights, and public interest groups just submitted detailed comments to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s on how to improve enforcement of the prohibitions against discrimination in the extension of consumer credit under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and its regulations. Read about it here.
The issue as framed by the petitioner, TransUnion, is whether "either Article III or Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23 permits a damages class action when the vast majority of the class suffered no actual injury, let alone an injury anything like what the class representative suffered." More at SCOTUSblog.
Here. Excerpt: One reason there may have been so few consumer lawsuits is that it is difficult to prove exactly where and how a person got COVID, especially during a pandemic. And even in the rare case that a consumer can summon the needed proof, he or she would still have to show that the business did […]
The immunity provided to internet platforms by section 230 of Communications Decency Act is a hot topic these days. Gregory Dickenson has written Rebooting Internet Immunity. Here is the abstract: We do everything online. We shop, travel, invest, socialize, and even hold garage sales. Even though we may not care whether a company operates online […]
Bloomberg mentions her as a possibility, as well as FTC commissioner Rohit Chopra and Patrice Ficklin, the CFPB's Fair Lending Director.
by Jeff Sovern WaPo's report is here and HuffPo's here. Paul Krugman in the Times writes about how the GOP doesn't see real problems like climate change, but in this case they see a problem that doesn't exist. UPDATE: The Hill reports here that McConnell has suggested dropping liability protection and state and local funding […]