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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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GMAC Mortgage Halts Tainted Foreclosures

Posted on September 20, 2010
Bloomberg has a report today that GMAC is halting foreclosures in 23 states due to unspecified defects. Apparently this action results from depositions of an employee who admits to signing tens of thousands of summary judgment affidavits and lost note...

FDA Won't Require Labeling on Genetically Modified Salmon

Posted on September 19, 2010
A few weeks ago, we described the battle between an emerging industry and consumer groups over whether the FDA should approve the first genetically modified animal for human consumption: genetically modified salmon. The FDA hasn't come to a decision yet,...

What Should the CFPB Tackle First?

Posted on September 18, 2010
We just got done telling you what Alan White thinks Elizabeth Warren's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should do immediately on the housing front. Now, Ron Lieber in today's New York Times tells us the 7 things the CFPB should do...

What New "Consumer Czar" Elizabeth Warren Can Do On Housing

Posted on September 18, 2010
At Credit Slips, CLP blogger Alan White has this interesting post explaining what Elizabeth Warren can do as "consumer czar" on housing-related issues, even before the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's regulatory authority kicks in. Here's the slimmed down version: The...

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Poverty in America Soars

Posted on September 17, 2010
Depressing U.S. census data show that, in 2009, more Americans were living below the poverty line -- $22,000 per year for a family of four -- than at any time since poverty statistics were first kept more than 50 years...

President Obama to Appoint Elizabeth Warren Today; Warren Says She'll Put an End to Financial "Tricks and Traps" Aimed at Consumers

Posted on September 17, 2010
Read about it here.

Putting a Human Face on Foreclosure

Posted on September 17, 2010
Yesterday we told you the cold stastics: Foreclosures are at their highest point since the mortgage meltdown began. But here's a real story, which begins like this: Mike and Kathy Wales don't know how long their 10-year-old son, Alex, has...

Should The Constitution Authorize The States To Repeal Federal Law?

Posted on September 16, 2010
This blog has frequently covered federalism issues, most notably addressing whether federal law preempts state-law claims for damages involving products or services subject to federal regulation. It's fair to say that on those questions the bloggers here, myself included, generally...

HuffPo: Dodd Says Congress Could "De-Fund" CFPB if President Appoints Warren

Posted on September 16, 2010
Here. It seems improbable that Congress would enact a new law to take away the CFPB's funding if Elizabeth Warren ends up heading the CFPB, especially since such a law would require either presidential approval or a veto override, but...

Foreclosure News

Posted on September 16, 2010
Lenders foreclosed on more homes in August than in any month since the mortgage meltdown began.

President Obama to Appoint Elizabeth Warren to Treasury Department Position

Posted on September 15, 2010
ABC is reporting that President Obama will appoint Elizabeth Warren to a special position at the Treasury Department. Warren will be charged with getting the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau up and running. As we discussed yesterday, the move is...

Nevyas Lasik Surgeons Resort to Trademark Law to Suppress Criticisms

Posted on September 14, 2010
by Paul Alan Levy For several years, Dominic Morgan and the principals of the Nevyas Eye Clinic have been jousting over Morgan?s contention that, by performing inappropriate lasik surgery on him in 1998, and overlooking indications that he was not...

Obama Administration Trying to Find Consumer Protection Role for Elizabeth Warren

Posted on September 14, 2010
According to this article in the Washington Post, the Obama Administration has a "genuine dilemma" on its hands: It wants Elizabeth Warren to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but it is concerned her nomination would be delayed and...

Has Vision Media TV Group assumed a new name ? World Progress Report?

Posted on September 13, 2010
by Paul Alan Levy Over the past year, several sources have discussed the deceptive solicitation techniques used by Vision Media TV Group, a Boca Raton TV production company, to drum up business from unsophisticated non-profit groups by promising to get...

Elizabeth Warren Interviews With The President

Posted on September 10, 2010
Read about it here.

Fatalities on US Roads Hit 60-Year Low

Posted on September 10, 2010
I remember when the number of traffic deaths on U.S. roads regularly exceeded 50,000. In 1970, for instance, traffic deaths were 52,627. Because of safety improvements in cars and public education, both spurred by changes in law and regulation, the...

Ninth Circuit says consumers may not own their software

Posted on September 10, 2010
by Greg Beck Most people outside the software industry probably assume that when they pay money in exchange for a package of software, they have just purchased that software. In Vernor v. Autodesk, the Ninth Circuit today cast that assumption...

President Obama Says He Really Really Likes Elizabeth Warren, But Declines To Make Her Nomination To Head CFPB Official

Posted on September 10, 2010
President Obama just said this: The idea for this agency was Elizabeth Warren's. She's a dear friend of mine. She's somebody I've known since I was in law school. And I have been in conversations with her. She is a...

Tennessee Conference on Behavior and Business Law to Include Session on Consumer Credit and Behavioral Economics

Posted on September 10, 2010
More information here. The consumer credit panel features a paper by Edward Janger of Brooklyn and discussants Thomas Plank of Tennessee and William Fox of The University of Tennessee Center for Business and Economic Research

Zahr Said Stauffer Paper on Embeded Advertising

Posted on September 09, 2010
Zahr Said Stauffer of Virginia has written Embedded Advertising and the Venture Consumer, North Carolina Law Review (forthcoming). Here's the abstract: Embedded advertising - marketing that promotes brands from within entertainment content - is a thriving, rapidly changing practice...

Is Google Immune from the Texas Attorney General's antitrust investigation?

Posted on September 08, 2010
by Paul Alan Levy Last Friday, Danny Sullivan broke the story that the Attorney General of Texas is investigating whether Google violated the antitrust laws by deliberately depressing the search rankings of certain commercial web sites whose services seek to...

Save or Spend?

Posted on September 08, 2010
Consumer advocates, among others, have often said that Americans use credit too freely and that the average American's debt is too high. But now I read that, over the past two years, "[h]ouseholds are borrowing less and saving more and...

FDA Considering Approval of First Genetically Modified Animal for Human Consumption

Posted on September 07, 2010
Salmon grow slowly in the first year of life. Of course, raising them for food would be cheaper if they grew more quickly. But as explained in this article in today's Washington Post . . . "AquAdvantage is an Atlantic...

David Horton Article: Arbitration as Delegation

Posted on September 04, 2010
David Horton of Loyola Law School Los Angeles haw written Arbitration as Delegation, 86 N.Y.U. L. Rev. (2011). Here's the abstract: Hundreds of millions of consumer and employment contracts include mandatory arbitration clauses, class arbitration waivers, and other terms that...

Ohio State Abuses Trademark Law to Suppress a Fan Magazine and Website

Posted on September 03, 2010
by Paul Alan Levy In today?s Washington Post, John Feinstein captures an important truth about college sports ? the print headline of his column is: ?Greed is the most powerful tradition in college football.? (In the online addition, the headline...

Email Updates to Our Casebook and Selected Consumer Statutes Are Now Available

Posted on September 03, 2010
You can request them by emailing westacademic@thomsonreuters.com.

Is Elizabeth Warren About to be Nominated to Head the CFPB?

Posted on September 02, 2010
We apologize for our recent failure to exhibit our obsession -- see http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2010/08/elizabeth-warren-meets-with-lobbyists-for-big-banks.html, in turn linking to 9 earlier posts on the topic! -- with whether Elizabeth Warren will head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau...

Scary Weather and Energy Prices

Posted on September 01, 2010
Unless I'm missing something, this CNBC report is discussing energy traders' disappointment that the two storms moving toward the East Coast are not bad enough to cause energy prices to spike.

Wyoming Consumer Issues Conference: Unlocking the Digital Marketplace: Legal and Ethical Issues

Posted on August 30, 2010
The 10th Consumer Issues Conference will be held on September 30 and October 1 with the theme of Unlocking the Digital Marketplace: Legal and Ethical Issues . The location will be the UW Union on the campus of the University...

The New Credit Card Law Hits College Campuses

Posted on August 27, 2010
Today's Washington Post explains here that credit card reform is hitting college campuses. As we have discussed, the 2009 credit card reform legislation imposes restrictions on the marketing of credit cards to adults between ages 18 and 21, which is....

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