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States Are Mobilizing to Protect Consumers from Forced Arbitration
As the New York Times recently reported, corporations have been taking away Americans’ ability to sue in court if the company harms them, without most people even being aware that they have given up their Constitutional rights. Corporations do this by slipping provisions into “terms and conditions” on the back of product packaging, or on the bottom of webpages, or buried in dense contracts that patients must sign before entering a hospital or nursing home.
Practice Area ; Consumers' Rights
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No, You Can’t Just Write a Contract that Says No Federal Law Applies
When James Hayes took out a loan for $2525 via the Western Sky lending company, he probably expected, like most consumers do, that he would be charged some interest. But by any reasonable standard, the 139.12% rate he was effectively charged—turning his initial $2525 loan into a $14,093 debt—was jaw-dropping.
A Payday Lender’s Race to the Bottom
by Gabriel Hopkins Thornton-Robb Attorney Scott Tucker loves fast cars. That might be why he raced to the bottom as the owner and operator of a payday lending business whose complicated and lopsided repayment plan duped millions of consumers. Now the details of this operation…
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Remington Agrees to Unseal All Documents in Cases over Fatal Defect in America’s Most Popular Rifle
Image via CNBC’s Remington Under Fire: The Reckoning. Remington Arms Company – the oldest firearms manufacturer in the country – has known for years that one of its most popular guns has a defect that can cause it to fire without the trigger ever being…
Court Determining Issue of Tribal Immunity in Payday Loan “Rent-a-Tribe” Case
Andrea Felts Image via KipMalone.com. By Aidan O’Shea Communications Specialist A years-long fight to win justice for consumers who say they were victimized by online payday lenders now hinges on a strange-seeming question: What makes a business part of a sovereign Native American tribe? A…
Loeffler v. Target
California consumers in this case alleged that Target violated the law when it imposed sales tax reimbursement charges on their purchases of hot coffee to-go, which are exempt from taxation under California’s tax code. (While the consumers’ receipts says “sales tax,” Target was actually charging…