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8 May 2008, 7:57 am
by Brian Wolfman In Williams v. [read post]
28 Apr 2008, 6:23 am
by Brian Wolfman Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f) says a court of appeals may permit an appeal from a district court order granting or denying class certification if a petition for permission to appeal is filed with the court of appeals within 10 days of entry of the district court's order. [read post]
25 Apr 2008, 12:57 pm
by Brian Wolfman The Second Circuit today issued Ross v. [read post]
18 Mar 2008, 9:01 pm
Brian Wolfman of Washington, D.C., will argue for the petitioner, and Anthony Yang of the Solicitor General’s office will argue for the respondent. [read post]
25 Feb 2008, 10:01 am
Brian Wolfman of Public Citizen Litigation Group, and Mr. [read post]
15 Feb 2008, 8:00 am
" This comment from Brian Wolfman of Public Citizen Litigation Group echoes one of the concerns that I voiced in that essay. [read post]
14 Feb 2008, 4:20 am
by Brian Wolfman Check out this op-ed by Eliot Spitzer in today's Washington Post. [read post]
27 Jan 2008, 10:58 am
by Brian Wolfman The Eleventh Circuit's decision in Busby v. [read post]
26 Jan 2008, 7:21 am
by Brian Wolfman Today's Washington Post has this article about the White House's consideration of candidates for Chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the government agency charged with protecting the public from potentially dangerous products, ranging from fire-prone mattresses to hazardous cleaning products to lead-laden toys. [read post]
19 Jan 2008, 12:44 pm
by Brian Wolfman The New York State Human Rights Division has just filed first-of-their-kind suits against firms that market tax refund anticipation loans (RALs). [read post]
14 Jan 2008, 6:13 am
by Brian Wolfman Read this Baltimore Sun article about the City of Baltimore's suit alleging that Wells Fargo engaged in predatory and racially discriminatory lending against Baltimore citizens. [read post]
19 Nov 2007, 3:31 pm
by Brian Wolfman The First Circuit today struck down a class action waiver contained in an arbitration agreement as unconscionable under Massachusetts law. [read post]
15 Nov 2007, 5:15 am
by Brian Wolfman The Washington Post's Michelle Singletary has this interesting article in today's paper on the three national credit bureaus' new policy of allowing consumers to "freeze" access to their credit reports so that identity thieves cannot use the reports to obtain credit under the victims' names. [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]
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]
23 Oct 2007, 6:29 am
by Brian Wolfman Legislation was introduced yesterday in the U.S. [read post]
17 Oct 2007, 7:32 am
by Jeff Sovern Today's Times has an editorial, "Subprime in Black and White," as a follow-up to the article earlier this week about the NYU Furman Center Study (that Brian Wolfman blogged about here) finding that neighborhoods with a majority of borrowers of color have a higher incidence of subprime loans than majority-white neighborhoods, even when they have similar median income levels. [read post]
25 Jun 2007, 8:13 am
(Allison Zieve) Supreme Court Asks for Solicitor General View's in Important Preemption Case (Brian Wolfman) [read post]
17 Jun 2007, 7:26 am
by Brian Wolfman Michele Singletary reports in today's Washington Post about a study of securities arbitrations conducted mainly under the auspices of the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD). [read post]
13 Jun 2007, 12:41 pm
Brian Wolfman and I filed a brief on behalf of Public Citizen supporting the plaintiffs' request and pointing out that if complying with regulation were enough to allow a defendant to remove a case under the law, a host of industries that are in fact subject to much heavier regulation than cigarette makers would have free rein to remove cases filed against them in state courts to federal courts. [read post]
