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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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CNN Report on Debit Card Fees for Those Receiving Unemployment Benefits
Posted on March 16, 2009by Jeff Sovern The unemployed who receive benefits in the form of debit cards often pay fees for the privilege, according to a CNN report. An excerpt: The National Consumer Law Center says fees range from 40 cents to a...
New Jersey Appellate Court Issues First Musings On Wyeth v. Levine
Posted on March 16, 2009by Brian Wolfman In a mammoth opinion on a number of topics, the New Jersey Appellate Division, beginning at page 109, provides its take on what is required to preempt under the Supreme Court's recent drug preemption ruling in Wyeth...
Mindless Evictions
Posted on March 15, 2009By Alan White As many speakers at last week's annual meeting of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition pointed out, banks are aggravating the blighting impact of foreclosures by mindlessly evicting tenants and former owners, even in markets where homes are...
Colbert On Preemption, Brought To You By Prescott Pharmaceuticals
Posted on March 14, 2009Check out this funny (IMO) Colbert sketch on Wyeth v. Levine and other health-related news, brought to you by Prescott Pharmaceuticals. As Colbert explains, because FDA approval does not guarantee safety, Prescott guarantees the public that its drugs are not...
Phony Consumer Protection Watch: Is § 1681s-2(a) of the Fair Credit Reporting Act an Example of Phony Consumer Protection?
Posted on March 13, 2009by Jeff Sovern We blogged here about phony consumer protection statutes, statutes that are designed to create the illusion of consumer protection, perhaps so legislators can claim to consumer-constituents that they are attending to a problem, but without the reality,...
Will There Be A Financial Product Safety Commission?
Posted on March 12, 2009On Tuesday of this week, Senators Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin introduced Senate Bill 566, which would create a new government agency, the Financial Product Safety Commission, to help consumers obtain financial products and services without being subject to predatory...
Fed Proposes New Amendments to Regulation Z
Posted on March 11, 2009The Fed's proposed regulations deal with student loans and can be found here, along with model forms. They largely implement the 2008 Higher Education Opportunity Act (HEOA), which amended Truth in Lending, and add a new subpart F to Reg...
Cuomo v. Clearing House Association: Important Preemption Case in the Supreme Court; Get Your Information Here!
Posted on March 11, 2009by Brian WolfmanAs Jeff Sovern reported in January, the Supreme Court has taken on an important case concerning the right of states to enforce their consumer protection and civil rights laws against national banks. The case is Cuomo v. Clearing...
Does Federal Law Bar Collecting Debts From the Dead?
Posted on March 10, 2009by Jeff Sovern Last week, on March 3, the Times ran a front page article, You?re Dead? That Won?t Stop the Debt Collector, about collecting debts from the families of the deceased. Here's a particularly memorable quote: ?In times of...
Hoofnagle and King on What Californians Understand About Online Privacy
Posted on March 09, 2009After co-authoring What Californians Understand about Privacy Offline, Chris Jay Hoofnagle and Jennifer King, both of Berkeley, have collaborated on What Californians Understand about Privacy Online. Here's the abstract: The volume of online commerce grows every year, in absence of...
Neuroscience and Consumer Protection
Posted on March 08, 2009by Jeff Sovern I've been listening to the audio version of Jonah Lehrer's How We Decide, which brings neuroscience to bear on the human decision-making process, and while I'm not done with it yet, I wanted to blog about some...
Foreclosure Crisis Still Getting Worse
Posted on March 07, 2009One out of 8 American homeowners is now behind in mortgage payments (either delinquent or in foreclosure) according to the Mortgage Bankers Association quarterly survey, the most reliable and longstanding source for foreclosure data. New foreclosure filings have not increased...
Sign Up With NHTSA To Get Vehicle, Tire, and Child Restraint Recall Information
Posted on March 07, 2009The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration now makes available safety recall information on vehicles, tires, and child safety restraints electronically. Go here to sign up for an email that will provide all recalls issued by NHTSA in the last seven...
House Holds Hearing on Used Cars
Posted on March 06, 2009by Deepak GuptaYesterday, the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection held a hearing on ?Consumer Protection in the Used and Subprime Car Market." The hearing focused on two types of problems for consumers, especially lower-income consumers: (1) a...
Fifth Circuit Holds Manifest Disregard of the Law is Not a Valid Basis to Vacate an Aribtration Award
Posted on March 05, 2009Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That State-Law Drug Injury Claims Are Not Preempted By FDA Drug Approval
Posted on March 04, 2009Third Circuit Strikes Down Class-Action Ban, Eliminates Claimed Circuit Split
Posted on February 26, 2009by Deepak Gupta This blog has closely followed the ongoing battle over class-action bans: adhesion contract provisions that purport to strip consumers and employees of their right to pursue class actions, whether in litigation or in arbitration. Needless to say,...
FTC Releases Annual Consumer Complaint Tally, Debt-Collection Reports
Posted on February 26, 2009by Deepak Gupta The Federal Trade Commission today released its annual tally of consumer complaints. For the ninth year in a row, identity theft was the number one consumer complaint category. Of 1,223,370 complaints received in 2008, 313,982, or 26....
Facebook Dumps Binding Mandatory Arbitration
Posted on February 26, 2009by Greg Beck As noted in a prior post, Facebook has been considering revisions to its terms of use in response to widespread criticism in the blogosphere. Facebook has now posted a proposed "Statement of Rights and Responsibilities" for its...
Fed Call for Papers
Posted on February 25, 2009The Philadelphia Federal Reserve Payment Cards Center has issues a call for papers for the fifth edition of its biennial conference on Recent Developments in Consumer Credit and Payments. Here are the details: This year's conference will be held at...
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