By Ross Todd | May 29, 2019
“What you are saying now sounds contrary to the message that Facebook itself disseminates about privacy,” Judge Vince Chhabria told a lawyer for Facebook at a hearing Wednesday.
The Legal Intelligencer | Commentary
By Robert Pratter and Silvio Trentalange | May 29, 2019
The court failed to elucidate what “clearly” really means. Nevertheless, consumers and employees subject to arbitration agreements must now utilize other measures to pursue effective relief in arbitration against powerful economic entities.
By Tony Mauro | May 28, 2019
The rare pro-consumer ruling in a class action was even more unusual because of the uncommon allies who joined Justice Clarence Thomas.
By Tony Mauro | May 28, 2019
The rare pro-consumer ruling in a class action was even more unusual because of the uncommon allies who joined Justice Clarence Thomas.
By Zach Schlein | May 24, 2019
The Florida attorney general and the Federal Trade Commission announced funds had been recovered from entities running illegal robocall operations.
By Ross Todd | May 24, 2019
The Craft Brew Alliance has also agreed to pay up to $10 each to consumers who lack proof of purchase to settle claims that they misled consumers about the brewing location of its Hawaii-themed suds. The company, however, has retained the option to terminate the settlement if there are more than 1 million claims.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Shirin Dhanani, Dora Galacatos and Shanna Tallarico | May 23, 2019
Proper submissions by litigants and appropriate application of the legal standard by the courts are essential to ensuring that consumer credit actions are decided on the merits and that default judgments are not improperly enforced where plaintiffs failed to legally serve defendants.
New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Ariana Lindermayer | May 22, 2019
While $50 may have been an effective deterrent in 1970, the “forty-fold increase” of which the author warns would bring the penalty to $2,000—reasonable and effective by modern standards.
By Jason Grant | May 20, 2019
Debt collection firm Forster & Garbus has “relied on non-attorney support staff, automation, and both a cursory and deficient review of account files to attempt to collect more than 99,000 debts," the complaint states.
By Jason Grant | May 20, 2019
The law firm has “relied on non-attorney support staff, automation, and both a cursory and deficient review of account files to attempt to collect more than 99,000 debts," the complaint states.
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