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The contributors to this blog are a diverse group of lawyers and law professors who practice, teach, or write about consumer law and policy. Although the blog is hosted by Public Citizen's Consumer Justice Project, the views expressed here are solely those of the individual contributors and do not necessarily reflect those of the institutions with which they are affiliated.

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A Negative Growth Decade

Posted on January 02, 2010
As this article explains, the decade that we just completed was the first since the relevant data have been kept in which the economy and personal income and wealth did not rise.

2010 Will Bring New Laws and Rules for Consumer Credit

Posted on January 01, 2010
This article in yesterday's Washington Post provides a nice synopsis of the new laws and regulations that will take effect in 2010 concerning credit cards, credit reports, and bank overdraft protection. All of it is supposed to benefit consumers over...

Class Action Brought in Debt Collection Sewer Service Scandal

Posted on January 01, 2010
Last summer we blogged about the New York State Attorney General's suit to vacate 100,000 debt collection cases in which the defendants had allegedly never been served because of fraud by process servers. The Times now reports that a class...

Corey Ciocchetti Paper on the Future of Privacy Policies

Posted on December 31, 2009
Corey Ciocchetti has written The Future of Privacy Policies: A Privacy Nutrition Label Filled with Fair Information Practices, 26 John Marshall Journal of Computer and Information Law. Here's the abstract: E-commerce continues to blossom as evidenced by online retail sales...

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Is "ambush marketing" a form of trademark infringement?

Posted on December 29, 2009
by Paul Alan Levy Another example of trademark law getting too big for its britches is provided by a lawsuit by Major League Soccer and ?Soccer United Marketing?, MLS?s affiliated marketing arm. They claim that Black & Decker has infringed...

Study of Medical Causes of Home Mortgage Foreclosures

Posted on December 29, 2009
Christopher T. Robertson of Harvard, Richard Egelhof , and Michael Hoke have co-authored Get Sick, Get Out: The Medical Causes of Home Mortgage Foreclosures, 18 Health-Matrix Journal of Law and Medicine. Here's the abstract: In recent years, there has been...

Pay walls for news media web sites?

Posted on December 28, 2009
by Paul Alan Levy The New York Times carries a story today about prospects for the news industry to obtain a revenue stream to support its content by erecting pay walls around their content. Rupert Murdoch, who has long proclaimed...

Discipline of Nurses Woefully Inadequate According to LA Times Expose

Posted on December 27, 2009
The LA Times reports today that the states' systems for disciplining nurses is broken. Among other things, it allows nurses whose care (or lack of care) may have killed or injured patients in one state to practice in another state...

More on Vincent DiLorenzo's Mortgage Market Article and the CFPA

Posted on December 25, 2009
by Jeff Sovern In October, I posted a link to my colleague Vince DiLorenzo's article Mortgage Market Deregulation and Moral Hazard: Equity Stripping Under Sanction of Law. I've since had a chance to read the article, and wanted to post...

Bailed-Out AIG Execs Promised to Pay Back Bonuses But Largely Have Not

Posted on December 23, 2009
Check it out.

AALS Conference and Consumer Protection

Posted on December 23, 2009
It's a little tricky sometimes to figure out from the descriptions which sessions at the AALS Conference will touch on consumer protection; sometimes the blurbs refer to topics which are not covered in the sessions. I'm listing the ones I...

Will new North Face trademark lawsuit come back to bite it in the butt?

Posted on December 22, 2009
by Paul Alan Levy North Face has sued a company called ?South Butt,? whose slogan ?Never Stop Relaxing? is a deliberate poke at the fashionable outdoors clothing company's "never stop exploring." South Butt's logo comes close to being a mirror...

More on the CFPA, Credit Card Issuers, and Car Dealers

Posted on December 22, 2009
For more on Brian's post of yesterday about how credit card issuers are finding new ways to generate revenue, notwithstanding the Credit CARD Act, and how the CFPA could stop such actions, here's Jeff Gelles's take, In related news, BusinessWeek...

New Report from the Center for Responsible Lending on Credit Card Industry Practices

Posted on December 21, 2009
We've blogged many times, including here, about how the new Credit CARD Act -- which instituted a number of changes, such restrictions on overlimit fees and on marketing to students -- may not be helping consumers' bottom lines. That's because...

Sprague & Ciocchetti Paper on Protecting Personal Identifying Information

Posted on December 16, 2009
Robert Sprague and Corey Ciocchetti have written Preserving Identities: Protecting Personal Identifying Information through Enhanced Privacy Policies and Laws, 19 Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology. Here's the abstract: This article explores the developing phenomenon of the ongoing collection...

Are state consumer protection laws working?

Posted on December 15, 2009
A comprehensive new study of state consumer protection statutes was just published. The background for the study is described as follows: During the 1960s there appeared to be increasing demand from the American public and elected officials for consumer protection...

Honda Accord Coupon Settlement Opposed

Posted on December 15, 2009
Three consumers have opposed a settlement of a class action filed against Honda. The class action alleged that Honda misrepresented the fuel efficiency of its Honda Civic Hybrid. The settlement provides a combination of DVDs that purportedly would provide owners...

Legal Services Lawyers May Once Again Seek Attorney Fee Awards on Behalf of Their Programs

Posted on December 15, 2009
In 1996, President Clinton signed a bill that, among other anti-legal services provisions, barred legal services programs funded through the federal Legal Services Corporation from seeking statutory attorney fees in cases that they won or settled on behalf of their...

Another "Why We Need Health Care Reform" Story

Posted on December 15, 2009
by Brian Wolfman A newspaper reporter works for the Miami Herald for a quarter century. During that time, he has excellent health insurance, which, according to the reporter, is the major reason his Type 1 diabetes has been kept in...

Jeff Gelles Column on Confusing Contract Terms . . .

Posted on December 12, 2009
. . . in DirecTV contracts. Another story of how consumers who don't read contracts get taken advantage of in a world in which everyone knows consumers don't read contracts.

House Passes Consumer Financial Protection Agency Bill

Posted on December 11, 2009
Times coverage here. Ed Mierzwinski has more of the details leading up to passage on his blog.

HAMP homeowners stuck in limbo

Posted on December 10, 2009
By Alan White More than 700,000 homeowners are in three-month "temporary" trial loan modification plans, but mortgage servicers have managed to convert only 31,382 to permanent modifications, according to the Treasury Department's November report released today...

Congressional Oversight Panel Finds That TARP Was Effective In Stopping Economic Panic

Posted on December 09, 2009
This article in this morning's New York Times discusses the year-end audit of the TARP bailout program conducted by the Congressional Oversight Panel headed by consumer advocate and law professor Elizabeth Warren. Although the Panel has been critical of the...

November 2009 Product Safety Recalls

Posted on December 08, 2009
Go here for the vehicle (and related) recalls from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and here for the consumer product recalls from the Consumer Product Safety Commission for November 2009.

Government Financial Bailout to Cost $200 Billion LESS Than Originally Projected by Obama Administration

Posted on December 07, 2009
. . . because of quicker-than-expected repayments and economic recovery.

Explosion in Non-Profit Organizations Costing U.S. Treasury Billions

Posted on December 06, 2009
Check out this article in the New York Times concerning the explosion of non-profit public charities organized under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. A new study by researchers at Stanford, entitled "Anything Goes: Approval of Nonprofit Status by...

Bank of America To Pay Back Bailout Funds, Allowing It To Offer A New CEO Whatever It Wants

Posted on December 05, 2009
Here's one that I missed. This Washington Post article explains that Bank of America will be the first corporate recipient of "extraordinary federal assistance" to pay back all of its Treasury Department bailout funds --- in BOA's case, $45 billion.....

Why Jenzabar expert's affidavit about Google search rankings is unreliable

Posted on December 03, 2009
by Paul Alan Levy Last month, I posted briefly about an affidavit from Frank Farance, the former high school math wizard whose expert testimony has been offered by Jenzabar to contradict Google?s announcement that it does not use keyword tags...

House to Consider Consumer Protection Bill Next Week

Posted on December 03, 2009
According to the House Financial Services Committee, it has completed work on the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, (H.R. 4173), which would create the Consumer Financial Protection Act and also contains mortgage reform and anti-predatory lending provisions, and...

Congressional Hearing on Legislation to Overrule Iqbal and Twombly

Posted on December 02, 2009
We blogged here last July about legislation introduced by Senator Specter to overrule the Supreme Court's decisions in Bell Atlantic v. Twombly and Ashcroft v. Iqbal, which heightened pleading requirements for plaintiffs. Civil rights and consumer organizations, among others, have...

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