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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Banks Fear Consumer Confusion as House Moves Up Effective Date for Credit CARD Act
by Jeff Sovern Earlier this week, as the Times reported, the House passed a bill to move up the effective date of some of the Credit CARD Act provisions to December 1. Here's an excerpt…
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Jenzabar Tries to Forbid Blogging About Its Abusive Trademark Litigation
The educational software company Jenzabar, whose abusive trademark claims were criticized in my own blog post here as well as by another Public Citizen employee on the Citizen Vox blog last month, is now claiming…
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Baltimore v Wells Fargo - Targetting Blacks for Subprime
The Consumerist blog has posted the full text of the two remarkable Wells Fargo loan officer affidavits that describe in detail the lender's systematic targetting of Black homeowners to sell them high-price subprime mortgages, regardless…
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Jeff Gelles Column on How Credit Card Issuers Used the Long Effective Dates of the Credit CARD Act
Here. An excerpt: [Under the Credit CARD Act,] card issuers such as Citibank and Chase will have to quit a set of practices that regulators and lawmakers have finally outlawed as unfair or deceptive. But…
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Shauhin A. Talesh on the Privatization of Public Legal Rights
Shauhin A. Talesh has written The Privatization of Public Legal Rights: How Manufacturers Construct the Meaning of Consumer Law, 43 Law & Society Review 527 (2009). Here's the abstract: This article demonstrates how the content…
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Huffington Post Op-Ed on the Law Professor Letter Supporting the Consumer Financial Protection Agency
Here. And here's the concluding paragraph: Perhaps those of us who have studied and taught consumer protection law are as much to blame as the banks and regulators for the mishaps of the recent past:…
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Federal Legislation Pending Regarding Bank Overdraft Fees
by Brian Wolfman Check out this article in today's Washington Post by Jeff Plungis concerning proposed federal legislation on bank overdraft fees. The article's focus is on legislation championed by Rep. Barney Frank that would…
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CPSC Recalls for October 2009
Go here for the Consumer Product Safety Commission's product safety recalls for October 2009.
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Norm Silber on How Opposition to the CFPA Connects to Traditional Anti-Consumer Protection Efforts
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Federal/State Agencies Obfuscate on Bankruptcy
Foreclosurebuzz has done an interesting survey of government web sites purporting to offer aid to consumers facing foreclosure. Most agency web sites do not mention bankruptcy at all, despite the fact that Chapter 13, and…