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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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Loyola Consumer Law Review looking for articles

Posted on August 26, 2008
Here's a call for submissions from the Loyola Consumer Law Review: The Loyola Consumer Law Review is currently seeking submissions for this year's journal. The Loyola Consumer Law Review is interested in any recent papers or articles you have written...

COMFORMITY ASSESSMENT PROGRAMME OF THE STANDARDS ORGANISATION OF NIGERIA

Posted on August 25, 2008
Here is an abridged version of a paper by Dr. Felicia Monye, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus and Editor-in-Chief of the Consumer Journal. The full text of the paper may be found in volume three...

Call for Papers for Consumer Journal

Posted on August 25, 2008
We received this call for papers: Papers are invited for the 4th edition of the Consumer Journal, a publication of the Consumer Awareness Organisation, a non-governmental organisation based in Nigeria. Interested contributors should send their papers to the address below...

Public Citizen wins a big preemption decision

Posted on August 20, 2008
Since no one at Public Citizen has posted a comment about the big win yesterday (August 19,2008, for those reading this post from far in the future) in the Third Circuit, I'll do so myself. Brian Wolfman and Adina Rosenbaum...

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Lauren E. Willis on Financial Literacy Education

Posted on August 18, 2008
Many of us were fortunate enough to hear Lauren E. Willis's talk on financial literacy education at the AALS conference in January. Those who weren't there or who want to know more can read her article, "Against Financial Literacy Education,"...

Times Reports on Home Equity Loans, Countrywide Litigation, Subprime Borrowers, and More

Posted on August 17, 2008
Another roundup of article in recent issues of the Times: Friday's Times brought another important installment in "The Debt Trap" series, this one headlined "Home Equity Frenzy Was a Bank Ad Come True," about how banks reframed second mortgages--once seen...

Why the FTC may be showing signs of life

Posted on August 15, 2008
Two days ago, August 13, two big deals happened about Airborne, the fake cold remedy. First, the FTC filed its settlement with Airborne before the same California federal judge where a class action lawsuit brought by CSPI and other lawyers...

Bankruptcy Filings Up

Posted on August 14, 2008
Credit Slips's Bob Lawless is reporting that bankruptcy filings in July 2008 were their highest since Congress's passage of the 2005 bankruptcy "reform" legislation.

Annual Rate of Consumer Price Inflation Highest in 17 1/2 Years

Posted on August 14, 2008
Despite their large impact on consumers, we usually don't report on monthly consumer price, unemployment, or other statistics concerning the health of the U.S. (or world) economy. But today's monthly consumer price index figures for July seem noteworthy because the...

Globalization and the Beaujolais

Posted on August 13, 2008
By Alan White Beaujolais wine, pressed from Gamay grapes grown on the hills above the Saone valley, has never had the pretention of its neighboring Burgundy Pinot Noirs to the North or Rhone Grenache/Syrahs to the south. In its heyday...

Paper on Whether Consumers Learn to Avoid Triggering Credit Card Fees

Posted on August 13, 2008
Sumit Agarwal, John C. Driscoll, both of the Fed, Xavier Gabaix of NYU's Stern School, and David Laibson of Harvard's Economics Department have written "Learning in the Credit Card Market." Here's the abstract: Agents with more experience make better choices...

Ohio Payday Lenders Caught Lying in Ballot Initiative Signature Drive

Posted on August 13, 2008
by Christopher Peterson Yesterday Ohio Public Radio ran a story exposing fraudulent ballot initiative practices used by the Ohio payday lending industry in its campaign to remove the state's new usury limit. The story, available here, features audio clips of...

Amendments to TILA

Posted on August 11, 2008
Most of our posts on the federal housing act signed into law last month, which can be found at Pub. L No. 110-289, 122 Stat. 2654, have focused on the Hope for Homeowners Act of 2008. But the statute also...

Foreclosures Affect Renters Not Just Homeowners

Posted on August 09, 2008
We tend to think only of homeowners when we think of foreclosures. But what about people who rent homes that go into foreclosure? This Washington Post article discusses the issue.

Call for Papers on Marketing and Public Policy

Posted on August 07, 2008
The 2009 Marketing & Public Policy Conference (MPPC), to be held in Washington, DC on May 28-30, 2009, brings together academics, marketing practitioners, government officials, consumer representatives, legal professionals and other interested parties to discuss current issues and research pertaining...

Joseph P. Mulholland Paper on Behavioral Economics and the FTC

Posted on August 05, 2008
Joseph P. Mulholland has written "Behavioral Economics and the Federal Trade Commission." Here's the abstract: This paper discusses the relevance of behavioral economics to consumer protection policy, especially to that practiced at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission...

A Nudge to Read Nudge

Posted on August 04, 2008
I recently finished listening to the audio version of Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein's book Nudge (the audio version lacks references and endnotes, and sometimes I have to take my mind off of the audio for left turns...

Consumer Product Safety Commission Recalls for July 2008

Posted on August 03, 2008
Read July's Consumer Product Safety Commission recalls.

Daniel Schwarcz on Resolving Consumer Insurance Disputes

Posted on August 03, 2008
Daniel Schwarcz of Minnesota has written "Towards a New Approach for Resolving Consumer Insurance Disputes." Here's the abstract: Much of insurance law and regulation is concerned with compensating consumers who have been wrongly denied coverage. But policyholders nonetheless have relatively...

Consumer Product Safety Bill Passes Congress

Posted on August 02, 2008
The Washington Post reports that the Senate yesterday passed landmark consumer product safety legislation by a vote of 89 to 3. This follows House passage of the bill Wednesday by an even more lopsided vote: 424 to 1. The legislation...

House of Representatives Passes Bill to Give FDA Authority to Regulate Tobacco

Posted on July 31, 2008
by Brian Wolfman For years, tobacco control advocates have pushed to give the FDA authority to regulate tobacco. Yesterday, the House of Representatives voted to do it -- with a veto-proof majority, but it is unclear whether the Senate will...

The Arbitration Trap Debate

Posted on July 30, 2008
[cross posted from Citizen Vox] July 29, 2008 By David Arkush, Taylor Lincoln, and Peter Gosselar Last November, Public Citizen released ?The Arbitration Trap,? a scathing report exposing the one-sided nature of ?justice? for consumers trapped by the National Arbitration...

President Bush Signed the Housing Bill

Posted on July 30, 2008
The Times so reports here.

An Argument Against Legislation to Help Those Facing Foreclosure?

Posted on July 29, 2008
Each year the Business Lawyer provides a valuable service by publishing a survey on consumer financial services law. In the introduction to this year's survey, Donald C. Lampe, Fred H. Miller, and Alvin C. Harrell, Introduction to the 2008 Annual...

The new iPhone?when half-price costs 40% more

Posted on July 28, 2008
by Richard Alderman I just bought a new iPhone 3G. Great device, no complaints about the phone. But the signs at the store boast ?Twice as Fast?Half the Price.? This claim is based on the fact that the new 3G...

Times Reports on Housing Bill, Identity Theft, and Student Loans

Posted on July 27, 2008
Here is the Time's report in today's edition on the Senate passage of the housing bill; it now goes to the President for signature. On Friday the Times ran "A Housing Bill That Has Something for Nearly Everyone" which summarized...

The Questionable "Services" of Debt Settlement Firms

Posted on July 24, 2008
by Greg Beck David Giacalone has an eye-opening post on debt solutions services, which, for a fee, offer to negotiate with creditors to reduce a consumer's debt. One such service is NetDebt, a for-profit company that promises to reduce consumers'...

Consumer Groups: Consumer Product Safety Commission Product Recalls Up 22% From Last Year

Posted on July 23, 2008
Six national consumer groups -- Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, Kids In Danger, Public Citizen, National Research Center for Women & Families, and U.S. PIRG -- today issued a report entitled "Total Recall: The Need for CPSC Reform Now...

President Bush Now Says He'll Sign the Housing Bill

Posted on July 23, 2008
The AP is reporting that President Bush has dropped his opposition and will sign legislation that its proponents claim will help homeowners out of the mortgage meltdown and will authorize the Treasury Department to bail out Fannie Mae and Freddie...

Should Victims of Data Breaches Be Able to Recover Absent a Showing of Identity Theft?

Posted on July 21, 2008
Most courts have rebuffed suits by consumers against companies that suffered data breaches when the consumers could not show that they had been victimized by identity thieves. For example, in Bell v. Acziom Corp., 2006 WL 2850042 (E.D.Ark. 2006), the...

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