Consumer Law & Policy Blog
A group blog focusing on consumer law and policy issues. It is hosted by Public Citizen's Consumer Justice Project.
Author: Deepak Gupta, an attorney with the Public Citizen Litigation Group, and Jeff Sovern, who teaches at St. John's University School of Law, are the coordinators of the blog. Its contributors: Richard Alderman, University of Houston Law Center; Greg Beck, Scott Nelson and Brian Wolfman (who currently teaches a course on appellate courts at Harvard Law School) of the Public Citizen Litigation Group; Paul Bland, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice; Stephen Gardner, Cetner for Science in the Public Interest; Orly Lobel, University of San Diego School of Law; Chris Peterson, University of Florida Levin College of Law; Michael Quirk, an associate at Williams Cuker Berezofsky in Philadelphia; Ira Rheingold, National Association of Consumer Advocates; Christine Riefa, Brunel Law School in Uxbridge, England; Jon Sheldon, National Consumer Law Center.
Blawg Related Categories: Consumer Law • Law Professors • Harvard University • St. John's University • University of Florida, Levin College of Law • University of Houston Law Center • University of San Diego • Associate • Law Professor
Recent Posts from Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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Credit Card Truncation Cases and Annihilating Damages
The credit card truncation cases raise an issue of what to do about potentially annihlating damages. First, a review: in 2003, when Congress enacted FACTA, it added to the Fair Credit Reporting Act a new…
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One Class's Field Test of the Magnuson-Moss Disclosure Rules
§ 702.3(a) of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty regulations requires that sellers: of a consumer product with a written warranty shall make a text of the warranty readily available for examination by the prospective buyer by: (1)…
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Can the RNC forbid the use of an elephant or "GOP" to identify Republicans?
by Paul Alan Levy The latest abuse of trademark law to suppress discussion of topics of substantial public interest comes from not from a company, like most of the trademark abuses previously discussed on this…
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Lab Experiment on Whether Payday Lending Helps Consumers Survive Financial Setbacks
Bart J. Wilson of George Mason, David W. Findlay and James W. Meehan both of Colby, Charissa P. Wellford, and Karl Schurter of Virginia have teamed up to write "An Experimental Analysis of the Demand…
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Times Articles on Mortgage Regulation, Privacy, and Marketing
by Jeff Sovern Here is the article in today's Times on the new Fed rules that Alan blogged about yesterday. Saturday's edition noted in "By Large Margin, Senate Votes to Help Homeowners and Overhaul Loan…
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Data Breaches Increase; FTC to Survey ID Theft Victims on Use of FACTA Rights
by Jeff Sovern The FTC has announced that it will survey identity theft victims about "their experiences when they contacted one or more credit reporting agencies and when they sought to use their FACT Act…
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Tiffany's Loses Trademark Claim Against eBay
by Greg Beck In a comprehensive 66-page opinion, a federal district judge today rejected Tiffany's claims that eBay infringed its trademarks by allowing the sale of counterfeit Tiffany's goods on its site. The court first…
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Fed Tightens Subprime Mortgage Rules
By Alan White While I haven't digested the full rule, it seems that the Fed's final unfair mortgage practices rule (press release with link to Federal Register text) is stricter than initially proposed in at…
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Seventh Circuit: CAFA Means What It Says About Its Appeal "Deadline"
by Brian Wolfman For a few weeks now, I've been planning to let you know about the Seventh Circuit's June 11 Class Action Fairness Act (CAFA) decision in Spivey v. Vertrue, Incorporated, No. 08-8009. So,…
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Will More Banks Fail?
This post yesterday described the failure on Friday of a major U.S. bank. Will more banks fail as a result of the mortgage crisis? According to this article in today's New York Times, some banking…