Consumer Law

Tracking Net Neutrality Bills in Congress
The Congress Gossip Blog (OpenCongress) predicts that one of the following three Net Neutrality bills will probably be voted on before the current session of Congress ends. The three bills represent three very different ways of enacting net neutrality protections...

Anti-Arbitration Bills Imperil the Universal Benefits of Consumer Arbitration
That is the title of an article by Kirk Knutson that appears in the latest issue of Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, a publication for legal professionals. The article discusses several anti-arbitration bills that have been introduced in Congress, their potential effects on consumer arbitration, and the underlying myths steering them...

A Look Back at the Year 2007 in Federal Consumer Protection Legislation
Just in time for New Year's Eve, the folks at The Consumerist have compiled a handy list of significant federal consumer-protection legislation that was introduced in the year 2007...

FOUR IMMIGRATION BILLS SET TO ADVANCE ON WEDNESDAY
The House Judiciary Committee is set to markup four immigration bills on Wednesday. None of the bills are particularly controversial, though movement on the measures is seen as important because if the bills advance, they would be the first pro-immigration ones to pass since the Democrats took control of Congress 15 months ago...

User-Friendly Law Firms
In recent years, companies have worked hard to make consumer products -- such as computer software or even an ordinary coffee can -- more user-friendly. So when are law firms going to catch on and start developing and applying ease-of-use...

A Tad Too Friendly at Friendly®s
I offer the following consumer experience as fodder for the debate in the intellectual property field over the appropriate balance of trademark protection. While on a road trip recently, I convinced my husband to stop at a Friendly®?s (for old time?s sake)...

Truth In Lending Act
Consumer Loans and Consumer Credit Protection Act

Income Tax Changes for 2007
Get Answers to your Income Tax Questions

Cell Phone Early Termination Fees
How to recover billing errors

Lexus Inc. and Toyota Motor Sales Inc.
allegedly failed to correct problems with the front passenger air bag system in thousands of 2007 Lexus ES350 vehicles.

CVS
Consumer Products Sold Past Their Expirey Dates

Mexican Vanilla Containing Coumarin
, FDA Issues Consumer Update

Ford Focus
Consumer Class Action Settles for Cash Refunds

AmeriGas, Blue Rhino
Face Consumer Class Action

Comcast Agrees Tentative $16 Million Settlement in Consumer File Sharing Class Action
Comcast Agrees Tentative $16 Million Settlement in Consumer File Sharing Class Action