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31 Oct 2008, 11:00 am
I am extraordinarily concerned first as a citizen of the United States of America and secondly, as a Pennsylvania products liability attorney who has been protecting consumers' rights since 1979. [read post]
28 May 2007, 10:00 pm
Congress Approves Minimum-Wage Increase America's lowest-paid workers won a $2.10 raise Thursday, with Congress approving the first increase in the federal minimum wage in almost a decade. [read post]
5 Aug 2016, 10:24 am by Karen Gullo
  Signers of today’s letter include the Consumer Federation of America, Public Knowledge, the Free Software Foundation, McSweeney’s, and No Starch Press. [read post]
6 Mar 2024, 6:29 am by Jennifer González
This post is a continuation of A Cause for Celebration: Federal Holidays and Observances Part 1. [read post]
23 Feb 2012, 10:53 am
Attorney General Eric Holder stated, "It holds mortgage servicers accountable for abusive practices and requires them to commit more than $20 billion towards financial relief for consumers. [read post]
29 Dec 2015, 5:07 pm by News Desk
Attorneys from DOJ’s Consumer Protection Branch, the same unit that prosecuted Peanut Corporation of America executives, was reported to be in charge of the probe. [read post]
17 Jan 2007, 9:25 am
Past studies of bankruptcy petitioners have indicated a high correlation between financial distress and medical bills, and even the Federal Reserve has told us that medical expenses were a leading reason for consumer debts like personal loans, so new data correlating credit card debt with medical expenses comes as no surprise. [read post]
27 Jan 2007, 9:01 pm
A federal court rejected Hormel's claims, and Hormel also lost on appeal. [read post]
29 Apr 2008, 10:04 am
Is the answer, as Grisham suggests, penalizing insurance companies for slow walking by allowing punitive damages in consumer lawsuits? [read post]
21 Aug 2010, 5:05 pm by Steve Bainbridge
Has the federal government become its own special interest group? [read post]
14 Jan 2012, 7:38 am by David Bernstein
” David Bernstein, February 2007, Volokh Conspiracy, “America, Meet Mr. [read post]
28 Jun 2013, 10:07 am by Art Hinshaw
  Outsourcing Justice adds to Professor Szalai’s growing corpus of historical research on arbitration law in America, including An Obituary for the Federal Arbitration Act: An Older Cousin to Modern Civil Procedure, 2010 J. [read post]
20 Jan 2020, 1:46 pm by Alan S. Kaplinsky
  He has authored several Consumer Federation of America reports critical of the Bureau’s policies under the Trump Administration. [read post]
12 Sep 2023, 5:20 pm by kblocher@hslf.org
The Humane Society Legislative Fund led the coalition letter, which was signed onto by groups such as the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, American Public Health Association, Sierra Club, the Child Labor Coalition, Consumer Reports, and County Executives of America. [read post]
9 Aug 2012, 6:50 am by Sheppard Mullin
Made in America Act and the crowd funding phenomenon both demonstrate that making apparel in the U.S. resonates with consumers. [read post]
30 Aug 2017, 9:10 am by Federal Employment Law Insider
CEOs have taken a stand because they know the current and future employees and consumers in America will be more diverse than in the past and that protecting equal opportunity and inclusion will be valued and rewarded. [read post]
8 Jul 2019, 1:00 am by Adonis Hoffman, Esq.
  In fact, privacy has become very big business not only in America, but also in Europe, where the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) mandated sweeping privacy protections for consumers and strict restrictions on how companies can use personal information and data. [read post]
1 Aug 2022, 12:45 pm by Coral Beach
The groups signing the petition were Rick Schiller, Steven Romes, the Porter Family, Food & Water Watch, the Consumer Federation of America, and Consumer Reports. [read post]
12 Aug 2014, 2:51 pm by Matthew D. Kaplan
In the world of federal contracting $1 million is a comparatively small sum – meaning that many, perhaps most, workers on federal contracts are already enjoying the protections put in place by the president’s executive order. [read post]