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11 Jul 2016, 12:30 pm
Paul, Minn., last week — again in the context of a routine traffic stop — serves as a gut-wrenching and infuriating reminder that, particularly for Black men in this country, playing by the rules is often not enough. [read post]
6 Jul 2016, 7:52 am by Joe Consumer
" And as we noted in 2013 (extensively quoting a blog post by Paul Bland called “Worst Supreme Court arbitration decision ever”), So, today, in American Express v. [read post]
20 May 2016, 9:57 am by Brian Slagle
Chamber of Commerce Paul Bland Jr., Executive Director, Public Justice As reported earlier, the CFPB’s proposed rule would prohibit covered providers of certain consumer financial products and services from using pre-dispute arbitration agreements that contain a class action waiver. [read post]
18 May 2016, 6:19 pm
Paul Bland Jr., executive director of Washington-based advocacy group Public Justice, expects a flurry of claims against payday lenders, some of which operate online and, he says, flout state laws. [read post]
18 May 2016, 6:10 am by Amy Howe
  Commentary comes from Mike Dorf at Verdict, Paul Bland at Public Justice, Lisa Soronen at Appellate Practice Blog, and Sharon Rosenberg at Thompson Coburn. [read post]
17 May 2016, 9:05 pm by Walter Olson
Not often it seems [Niclas Berggren via Bryan Caplan] China, not unlike our own attorney general-environmentalist alliance, is cracking down on the work of what it deems ideologically harmful nonprofits [ABA Journal] Barking mad: new ABA ethics proposal would deem it professional misconduct for lawyers to discriminate on various grounds, including “socioeconomic status,” in choosing partners, employees and experts [Eugene Volokh, Sara Randazzo/WSJ Law Blog] Virginia still has a… [read post]
4 May 2016, 4:41 pm by Jay
Paul Bland Jr., the executive director of Public Justice, a national consumer advocacy group, attributed this to the tangle of bans placed inside clauses added to contracts that no one reads in the first place. [read post]
21 Feb 2016, 9:16 am
Paul Bland, executive director of Public Justice, flags a new article by two NY Times reporters who have latched onto the story of the century: how corporations are using arbitration clauses to make crime pay. [read post]
31 Oct 2015, 11:50 am by Dean Freeman
Additional Resources: Corporate America’s Latest Target: Nursing Home Patients, Oct. 15, 2015, By Paul Bland, The Huffington Post More Blog Entries: Report: Resident-on-Resident Abuse a Pervasive Problem in Nursing Homes, Oct. 20, 2015, Broward County Nursing Home Abuse Lawyer Blog [read post]
28 Oct 2015, 10:53 am by Ralph Behr, Esq
  Paul Butler, a professor at Georgetown University and Washington, D.C., who was a prosecutor before teaching, has said, “A lot of white people are truly shocked by what these videos depict. [read post]
25 Oct 2015, 3:46 am by Dean Freeman
  15, 2015, By Paul Bland, Public Justice Executive Director, Huffington Post More Blog Entries: Portable Adult Bed Handle Recall Reannounced, Oct. 13, 2015, West Palm Beach Nursing Home Lawyer Blog [read post]
20 Oct 2015, 5:30 am by Guest Blogger
In recent months, Evan Bernick of the Institute for Justice joined calls by Judge Alex Kozinski and retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens to reform the doctrines giving prosecutors absolute immunity from lawsuits seeking damages under Section 1983. [read post]
19 Oct 2015, 5:30 am by Guest Blogger
In 1997, Justice Stephen Breyer endorsedJustice John Paul Stevens’ longstandingcritiqueof Section 1983 doctrine and call for reforming Section 1983. [read post]
21 Aug 2015, 12:54 pm by Sandy Levinson
" (emphasis in original) Finally, one of my (genuine) hopes for Rand Paul, which so far, at least, is not particularly being realized, is that he would really try to educate the public about the implications of our becoming ever more of a police state, even though most of "us," of course, don't feel this because we're not likely to be the recipients of the kind of police behavior directed at Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, etc., etc., etc., nor are… [read post]
19 May 2015, 1:44 pm by Ken White
” Archbishop Paul Coakley, quoted on FoxNews.com, August 8, 2014. [read post]
4 May 2015, 5:59 am by Joy Waltemath
Paul Bland, Executive Director of Public Justice, said in commentary that the proposed legislation would make it “essentially impossible for Americans to join together in bringing class action lawsuits for nearly any illegal act a corporation might undertake. [read post]
27 Apr 2015, 10:14 am by Schachtman
Fox) is lower than the age-of-onset of Parkinson’s disease for Popes (such as John Paul II). [read post]
16 Apr 2015, 7:39 am by Amy Howe
In anticipation of the ninety-fifth birthday of Justice John Paul Stevens next week, Linda Greenhouse of The New York Times looks at his life after the Court and notes that, “[f]ar from the bland endorsements of the rule of law that are typical of judicial speeches, his feature trenchant critiques of recent and not-so-recent Supreme Court decisions. [read post]