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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Harvest From the Times: Bank Fees and Debt Derails Legal Career
by Jeff Sovern Some interesting articles in the New York Times today: One article, Bank Fees Rise as Lenders Try to Offset Losses, may shed some light on the claim that banks are raising credit…
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Consumer Law & Policy Roundup
by Deepak Gupta So much is happening so quickly in the world of consumer law and policy right now that it's hard to keep up, let alone blog about it in our spare time. In…
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Credit Card Issuers Raise Minimum Payments: Is it Because of the Credit CARD Act?
Arthur Delaney of the Huffington Post has the story.
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Fallout From Credit CARD Act?
by Jeff Sovern This morning, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette published the following essay I had written: Private Sector Commentary: New credit card law has teeth Tuesday, June 30, 2009 By Jeff Sovern The credit card legislation…
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White House Proposal Includes Authority to Ban Forced Arbitration
by Deepak Gupta Included in President Obama's proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009 is the following provision giving the new agency the authority to ban pre-dispute mandatory binding arbitration clauses: SEC. 1025. AUTHORITY…
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White House Sends Consumer Financial Protection Bill to Capitol Hill
by Deepak Gupta Today, President Obama sent a bill to Capitol Hill that would create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency. You can read the text of the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act of 2009…
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California's 17200: Have rumors of its death been greatly understated?
by Stephen Gardner Yesterday, the California Supreme Court issued an opinion, Arias v. Superior Court, that seems to have gutted any hopes of a representative action under California Business & Professions Code § 17200, holding:…
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Should section 230 be broadened to the traditional media?
by Paul Levy General Motors’ retreat from its effort to use bankruptcy proceedings to shed tort liability represents a great victory for consumers. But the Washington Post reported that, in the course of the consumer…
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Cuomo Case Great News for State Attorneys General
by Christopher Peterson The Supreme Court has issued an opinion striking down the federal banking regulatory preemption of state fair lending enforcement lawsuits. The Court confronted whether ambiguity in the National Bank Act left the…
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Read the GM Bankruptcy Objection Filed by Consumer Groups
Earlier today, we posted materials concerning the amendments to the GM bankruptcy sale that will save future product liability and lemon law claims. That post neglected to say that these amendments largely redress objections in…