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Being Arrested Doesn’t Take Away Your Consumer Rights
Appeals Court Deals a Blow to the Prison-Industrial Complex By Karla Gilbride Cartwright-Baron Staff Attorney On any given day in the United States, some 2.3 million people are locked up between state and federal prisons, local and county jails, and immigration detention centers. That’s more…
Practice Area: Consumers' Rights
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Call Congress: Protect Wronged Consumers from Ending Up in the Red
Congress has repeatedly recognized that some laws depend on everyday people being able to enforce them in court, but doing so would often be impossible without the assistance of a qualified and knowledgeable attorney. That’s why in many cases – from discrimination, labor abuses, environmental…
Sheen v. Wells Fargo Bank
This California Supreme Court appeal involves home owners who were victimized by a mortgage lender’s mishandling of a mortgage modification application that resulted the sudden loss of their home to an unexpected bank foreclosure. The decision on appeal held that a mortgage lender and servicer…
Lawsuit alleges lunch payment service used in local schools defrauded parents
The Washington PostTrump Praises Apple CEO Tim Cook For Calling Him ‘Whenever There’s A Problem’
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California Supreme Court Strikes Blow for Consumers and Employees By Rejecting Class-Action-Killing Ascertainability Rule
In a unanimous 45-page ruling issued today, the California Supreme Court struck a major blow in favor of class actions and against big corporations who lie, cheat, and steal money from their customers and mistreat their employees. In Noel v. Thrifty, a consumer class action,…
Public Justice Fights For Your Right To Stop Credit Agencies From Lying About You
Public Justice, as part of our Access to Justice Campaign, has filed a petition asking the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear a dangerous decision that makes it nearly impossible for people to hold credit reporting agencies accountable and fix damaging errors in their credit reports.