Consumer Law

2008 Supplement to Consumer Law Casebook Available

By Jeff Sovern

I am pleased to announce that the 2008 supplement to our casebook is now finished.  I expect Thomson/West will shortly make it available to those using the book but if you are using the book and need it right away, I can email it to you.  Perhaps the most significant addition consists of the materials on the subprime lending crisis.  Because we anticipate that some professors will want to refer to the subprime crisis throughout the course, as it has ramifications for a number of topics, including fraud rules, TILA, reverse-redlining and predatory lending, we inserted a prefatory note that provides a brief overview of the crisis (those who don't wish to discuss the crisis until later in the course can simply skip the prefatory note).   We also added materials at various points that go into more detail on the crisis and responses to it, including problems on advertising rules and "higher-priced mortgage loans" under the new amendments to Regulation Z.  The supplement also contains the revisions to TILA and Regulation Z.  In other areas, the supplement includes as a principal case the recent New Mexico Supreme Court decision in Fiser v. Dell Computer Corp. (Deepak blogged about it here), as well as references to other recent consumer law court decisions and developments.  And, of course, the supplement contains most of the material that appeared in the 2007 supplement, including the Supreme Court's Safeco decision.  As always, we welcome comments and suggestions on the casebook and supplement.

Full post as published by CL&P Blog on August 26, 2008 (boomark / email).