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28 Apr 2007, 4:22 am
by Brian Wolfman Back on March 1, we blogged about the Bush Administration's nomination of Michael Baroody (pictured here), a longtime high-ranking executive with the National Association of Manufacturers, to chair the Consumer Product Safety Commission. [read post]
13 Apr 2009, 9:51 am
Kudos to Public Citizen and Brian Wolfman for this update and all the hard work on an important consumer class action issue. [read post]
16 Feb 2007, 12:58 pm
by Brian Wolfman    Yesterday, the California Supreme Court issued its decision in Grisham v. [read post]
13 Jul 2015, 6:59 am by Rebecca Tushnet
Brian Wolfman and I just filed this amicus on behalf of law professors seeking rehearing in the In re GNC case, which badly misunderstood literal falsity.http://tushnet.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default? [read post]
19 Nov 2008, 3:58 am
by Brian Wolfman A little while back, Public Citizen Litigation Group objected to the proposed settlement in In re Ameritrade Accountholder Litig., No. 3-07-cv-02852-VRW (N.D. [read post]
19 Mar 2007, 8:02 pm
Brian Wolfman It appears that the Ninth Circuit has a rule requiring it to issue at least one decision about the Class Action Fairness Act every week. [read post]
30 Sep 2008, 3:26 am
by Brian Wolfman Today, Monday, September 29, the Supreme Court Justices held their annual "long conference" at which they considered hundreds of petitions for writs of certiorari that had piled up over the Court's 3-month summer recess. [read post]
1 Mar 2007, 6:35 am
By Brian Wolfman     In today's Washington Post, Michele Singletary discusses her "Dirty Dozen": the 12 most popular scams that tax preparers try to sell to taxpayers hoping for a big (but illegal) federal tax refund. [read post]
5 Oct 2009, 6:46 am
by Brian Wolfman Here is one of many news accounts about the Center for Science in the Public Interest's new suit against Bayer for allegedly deceiving consumers that the mineral selenium, contained in Bayer's One-a-Day Multivitamins for men, helps "support prostate health" and "reduce[s] the risk of prostate cancer. [read post]
11 Jun 2008, 6:58 pm
by Brian Wolfman The grassroots organization ACORN has just released a report that I think our readers will find interesting. [read post]
5 Jun 2007, 6:12 am
by Brian Wolfman Anyone interested in the potential human costs of debt collection harassment should read the Sixth Circuit's recent decision in MacDermid v. [read post]
4 Jun 2007, 5:51 am
by Brian Wolfman On May 23, the Federal Reserve Board proposed revisions to Regulation Z regarding disclosures of the cost of credit for credit card accounts (sometimes referred to as "open-end" credit). [read post]
3 Nov 2007, 2:58 pm
by Brian Wolfman This article in today's Washington Post explains that Consumer Product Safety Commission chair Nancy Nord has asked the Office of Government Ethics to review the CPSC's travel policy after it was revealed that Nord and her predecessor, Hal Stratton, took trips paid for by the industries that the CPSC regulates. [read post]
6 Nov 2007, 3:51 am
by Brian Wolfman Today's Washington Post has more on the controversy over Consumer Product Safety Commission agency heads traveling at the expense of businesses regulated by the agency. [read post]
23 Apr 2007, 8:18 am
By Brian Wolfman     Way back on September 15, I blogged here about an effort by Public Citizen and the Center for Auto Safety to convince the California Supreme Court to review a ruling that, if allowed to stand, would gut California's consumer protection laws. [read post]
13 May 2008, 6:54 am
by Brian Wolfman Last December, we blogged here about Haliburton's efforts to force into arbitration a suit brought by a former employee who maintains that she was gang-raped by her Haliburton co-workers in Baghdad. [read post]