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10 Aug 2010, 8:13 am by Matthew Scarola
” At the Public Citizen Litigation Group‘s blog, Deepak Gupta compiles the amicus briefs filed in support of AT&T in AT&T v. [read post]
9 Aug 2010, 11:58 am by Deepak Gupta
DRI -- The Voice of the Defense Bar (Kevin Newsom) Equal Employment Advisory Council Law Professors (Andrew McBride) New England Legal Foundation Pacific Legal Foundation The States of South Carolina and Utah [Disclosure: Deepak Gupta and Scott Nelson of Public Citizen Litigation Group are lead counsel for the respondents in AT&T v. [read post]
6 Aug 2010, 4:00 am by Deepak Gupta
by Deepak Gupta Banks Pressure Consumers As Overdraft Deadline Nears: Facing an August 15th deadline for existing bank customers to opt in to high-cost overdraft programs, bankers are using aggressive, often misleading marketing to target the most vulnerable cusomers, according to a new report. [read post]
5 Aug 2010, 8:28 am by Paul Bland
[Disclosure: Deepak Gupta of Public Citizen Litigation Group, which hosts this blog, is counsel of record for the respondents in Concepcion. [read post]
26 Jul 2010, 3:54 pm by Deepak Gupta
by Deepak Gupta The debate over whether President Obama should name Elizabeth Warren to head the new consumer financial protection agency -- an agency for which she provided the intellectual architecture, and that probably never would have been created without her  -- has taken on a surprisingly high profile over the past week, at times resembling an election campaign or Supreme Court nomination fight. [read post]
12 Jul 2010, 2:32 pm by Deepak Gupta
by Deepak Gupta The Federal Trade Commission today issued a major report on debt collection and the forced arbitration of consumer collection disputes. [read post]
30 Jun 2010, 8:30 pm by Deepak Gupta
by Deepak Gupta  The forced arbitration of claims arising out of statutory protections for consumers and employees has become a hot topic at the Kagan hearings. [read post]
26 Jun 2010, 11:14 am by John Watts & M. Stan Herring
Deepak Gupta has an excellent post on how the United States Supreme Court has ruled in a way to hurt consumers who seek justice but are prevented from doing this by arbitration agreements. [read post]
24 May 2010, 3:56 pm by Deepak Gupta
by Deepak Gupta   Back in May 2008, I wrote a blog post that began like this:A cutting-edge issue in the world of consumer law--and one that this blog has discussed many times before . . . is the extent to which corporations can enforce class-action bans placed in consumer adhesion contracts. [read post]
24 May 2010, 3:08 pm
For Respondents: Deepak Gupta;Public Citizen Litigation Group; 1600 20th Street, NW; Washington, DC  20009; dgupta@citizen.org; (202)-588-1000. [read post]
20 May 2010, 6:15 pm by Deepak Gupta
by Deepak Gupta By a vote of 59-39 tonight, the Senate passed sweeping legislation to tighten the rules governing the U.S. financial system. [read post]
20 May 2010, 1:14 pm by Deepak Gupta
by Deepak Gupta A little over an hour ago, the Senate agreed to end debate over the financial reform bill within the next 30 hours. [read post]
4 May 2010, 5:00 am by Victoria VanBuren
Deepak Gupta, Consumer Law & Policy Blog (April 1, 2010) Recent Developments in Arbitration Unconscionability,  Disputing (March 30, 2010) Contracts Prof Blog Roundup: (in reversed order) Rent-A-Center West v. [read post]
12 Apr 2010, 11:52 am by Deepak Gupta
by Deepak Gupta A new study, The Preemption Effect: The Impact of Federal Preemption of State Anti-Predatory Lending Laws on the Foreclosure Crisis (PDF), conducted by UNC-Chapel Hill's Center for Community Capital, concludes that federal action to exempt large national banks from state consumer protection laws led to increased numbers of home foreclosures and risky lending practices. [read post]
8 Apr 2010, 10:43 am by Deepak Gupta
by Deepak Gupta  Last week, I blogged about Rent-a-Center v. [read post]