Hill v. EAN Holdings, LLC
Dana Hill was the victim of a bait-and-switch auto financing scheme. He sought to buy a used car from Enterprise, and he planned to finance the car by trading in his old car, making a down payment, and taking out a loan...
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Trump v. Slaughter
What’s at Stake This case presents the question whether the president has unilateral authority to, without cause, fire commissioners of independent agencies. Summary In March 2025, President Trump purported to fire Rebecca Slaughter, a Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), partway through the term for which she was appointed. The FTC Act provides that…
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Wright v. Portfolio Recovery Associates, LLC
What’s at Stake The primary issue before the Colorado Supreme Court in this case is the enforcement of a Colorado statute requiring debt collectors to produce specific evidence showing that a debtor legitimately owes the debt, and that the debt collector has the right to collect it before a court can issue a debt-collection judgment.…
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Muha et al v. Experian Information Solutions
What’s at Stake Standing is the legal principle that decides who gets to bring a lawsuit. Traditionally, a person who has experienced the violation of a statute has standing to bring a claim for that violation. For example, the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) says that people can bring claims when a credit reporting agency…
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Kashanian v. National Enterprise Systems, Inc.
What’s at Stake This case is about whether the First Appellate District of the California Court of Appeals will continue to recognize that having statutory claims is enough to sue in state court or whether it will follow the federal courts and require concrete harm separate from the statutory violation itself to bring a lawsuit.…
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Madrigal v. Ferguson
What’s at Stake Certain workers cannot be compelled into arbitrating disputes with employers under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). Specifically, the statute exempts the contracts of workers “engaged in…interstate commerce.” Since our victory in the U.S. Supreme Court in Oliveria v. New Prime, Inc., the scope of this exemption has been the focus of many…
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Walker v. Uber Technologies, Inc.
What’s at Stake This case tests what counts as “acceptance” of a company’s terms of service, and whether a person can be bound to terms someone else accepted. In this case, our client was seriously and permanently injured in a crash while riding in an Uber that his wife ordered in her app. Uber is…
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Fausett v. Walgreen Co.
What’s at Stake Standing is the legal principle that decides who gets to bring a lawsuit. Traditionally, a person who experienced the violation of a statute has standing to bring a claim for that violation. For example, the federal Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) says that consumers can bring claims when a merchant…
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Berk v. Choy
What’s at Stake Some states have passed “tort reform” laws designed to make it harder to bring certain kinds of state law claims. Delaware is one of those states. This U.S. Supreme Court case is about whether a federal court hearing a case about violations of Delaware law has to follow the procedural “tort reform”…