Consumer Protection

  • National Law Journal

    Ann Marie Buerkle Is Trump's Pick to Lead Product Safety Agency: What to Know

    By C. Ryan Barber | July 25, 2017

    This week, President Trump nominated Ann Marie Buerkle, the former New York congresswoman, to serve as the Consumer Product Safety Commission's chairwoman in a permanent capacity, putting her in line to lead the agency when Republicans take a majority. Here's a look at what companies and safety advocates need to know about Buerkle.

  • The Recorder

    VW Plaintiffs' Team Awarded Another $125M in Fees and Costs

    By Ross Todd | July 24, 2017

    Friday's order brings tally awarded to the 22-lawyer plaintiffs' steering committee led by Elizabeth Cabraser of San Francisco's Lieff Cabraser Heimann Bernstein to nearly $350 million.

  • National Law Journal

    Law Firm, Fighting CFPB Subpoena, Urges Court to End 'Fishing Expedition'

    By C. Ryan Barber | July 24, 2017

    A California law firm on July 21 blasted a recent subpoena from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as "nothing more than an unwarranted and impermissible fishing expedition," in a brief that also called for eliminating the agency on the grounds that its independent, single-director structure violates the Constitution.

  • National Law Journal

    Delay. Delay. Delay. How Trump's Agencies Want to Kill Rules

    By C. Ryan Barber | July 21, 2017

    Chopping down Washington's "dense thicket of rules, regulations and red tape," as President Donald Trump described it in June, doesn't always come so easily—or quickly. For a number of other regulations, the Trump administration has been playing the delay game.

  • National Law Journal

    Wells Fargo Whistleblower in Sham-Accounts Scandal Wins Reinstatement, Back Pay

    By C. Ryan Barber | July 21, 2017

    The U.S. Department of Labor on Friday ordered Wells Fargo & Co. to reinstate a former branch manager fired for blowing the whistle on three subordinates who were opening new accounts for customers without their knowledge—the conduct at issue in the bank's $185 million settlement last year with federal regulators and the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office.

  • National Law Journal

    SEC Whistleblowers in Line for Windfall, and FTC Probes Amazon: Roundup

    By C. Ryan Barber | July 21, 2017

    The Trump administration is touting the number of federal regulations that are on the chopping block. Exxon Mobil Corp.'s suing the U.S. Treasury Department over a $2 million fine for violating Russia sanctions. The Federal Trade Commission's looking at Amazon.com's discounting practices. And financial regulators appear to be pulling back on a plan to restrict Wall Street bonuses. This is a weekly roundup from ALM and around the web.

  • Daily Business Review

    US Hotel, NFL Arena May Sport Grenfell Tower Flammable Panels

    By Juliet Linderman, Jason Dearen and Jeff Martin | July 20, 2017

    In promotional brochures, a U.S. company boasted of the "stunning visual effect" its shimmering aluminum panels created in an NFL stadium, an Alaskan high school and a luxury hotel along Baltimore's Inner Harbor that "soars 33 stories into the air." Those same panels — Reynobond composite material with a polyethylene core — also were used in the Grenfell Tower apartment building in London. British authorities say they're investigating whether the panels helped spread the blaze that ripped across the building's outer walls, killing at least 80 people.

  • National Law Journal

    Is Washington, DC, the Nation's Next 'Food Court'?

    By Cogan Schneier | July 20, 2017

    A nonprofit group represented by a longtime plaintiffs lawyer is challenging Mott's applesauce in a case that could be a sign of things to come.

  • New York Law Journal

    Tort-Reform Group Champions Bill to Regulate Certain Litigation Funders

    By Josefa Velasquez | July 20, 2017

    A tort-reform business group is pushing for a bill that would regulate the third-party consumer litigation funding industry in New York state, despite the end of the legislative session for the year.

  • New Jersey Law Journal

    Estrada v. Johnson & Johnson

    By njlawjournal | New Jersey Law Journal | July 20, 2017

    No Injury-in-Fact on Benefit of the Bargain Theory Based on Manufacturer's Omission in Absence of Affirmative Duty to Disclose

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