Consumer Law

Now You Can Receive Alerts of Recalls of Tires and Child Car Seats By E-mail or On Your Personalized Homepage
Consumers can now sign up with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to receive automatic e-mail alerts when there is a government recall of defective tires or child restraint safety seats...

Lack of Consumer Response to Recalls Leaves Children and Adults Vulnerable to Injuries
NewsInferno.com reports that although product recalls are considered to be a powerful way to ensure consumer safety, sometimes recalls are just not enough.  Despite recall notices and warnings, consumers continue to use products that have the potential to seriously injure or kill, according to the U...

FDA E-Mail Alerts
Many, but perhaps not all, of our readers know that the FDA offers automatic e-mail alerts of certain Agency publications and actions.For those who may be interested, but were previously unaware of this service, here's a link to the registration page...

FCC OKs Emergency Alerts Via Text Message
During disasters and other emergencies, the nation's wireless carriers will transmit alerts, warnings and other critical information to cell phones and other mobile devices of consumers, under an order adopted Wednesday by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...

Toy Safety -The ABCs of Toy Safety (Awareness Benefits Consumers)
A is for Awareness. What toys pose the greatest risk? See future entries for more details about dangerous toys. B is for Benefits of; the Consumer Product Safety Commission which is increasing its inspections, and the removal of dangerous toys and defective products from the market...

Research tool
Research toolGoogle alertsInterested in being kept apprised of the latest developments concerning a particular topic or case using a key word or phrase? Have you tried the ?information service? sent via e-mail provided by Google Alerts to accomplish this? If not, visit the Google Alerts site by placing your cursor on the text below and follow the pop-up instruction for additional information about this free service...

Explicit E-Mail
Adult website fined $413,000 in explicit e-mail matter.

Daniel V. Leccese Sr.
$250,000 fine for felony mail fraud.

Automated Calls
Voice Mail Broadcasting Corp. pays $180,000 FTC settlement for telemarketing violations.

DirecTV
alleging a cancellation fee that is improperly or insufficiently disclosed to consumers.

Antitrust
Price Fixing Could Cost Consumers up to $300 Billion Annually

Airborne Settlement
Company agrees to pay consumers $23.3 million class action settlement for false advertising.