By Adele Kimmel, Managing Attorney The start of the new school year has already provided a painful lesson on the effects of bullying. After the first day of school, 15-year-old Bart Palosz of Greenwich, Conn., killed himself in an apparent effort to escape years of…
By Leah Nicholls, Kazan-Budd Attorney Are airlines excused from following state laws when it comes to frequent flier programs? That’s the question before the Supreme Court in Northwest, Inc. v. Ginsberg. If the Court answers with a broad “yes,” a large swath of consumer transactions could…
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention By Jessica Culpepper, Food Safety & Health Attorney Yesterday the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed that one of our worst medical nightmares is coming true—antibiotic resistant superbugs are leading us to a post antibiotic era, where…
By Leslie Bailey, Staff Attorney As a consumer lawyer, I’ve witnessed some pretty outrageous conduct by corporations, and debt collectors and debt buyers are especially prone to abuses. But even I was surprised at how low one debt collection law firm in Washington stooped lately. …
By Adrian Alvarez, Goldberg-Robb Attorney I recently posted a blog with my colleague Adele Kimmel about an Oregon case filed by Josi Harrison, a high school student who was “sextorted” into sending nude photos of herself to her boyfriend starting in middle school. The crux…
By Leslie Bailey, Staff Attorney According to a new report just released by the Center for Investigative Reporting and reported by KQED, the failure of California regulators to adequately investigate and pursue claims of abuse and misconduct by nursing assistants and health aids is “putting…
By Paul Bland, Senior Attorney @PBlandBland In the wake of recent Supreme Court decisions, forced arbitration clauses are generally enforced unless a corporation sticks something particularly overreaching and unfair in its arbitration clause, or drafts an arbitration clause in an unusually stupid way. A U.S….
By Amy Radon, Staff Attorney As The New York Times has reported, brokerage firm giant Merrill Lynch agreed to pay $160 million to settle a lawsuit filed by 700 African American brokers who had accused the firm of race discrimination. It’s a great victory, but it…
By Adrian Alvarez, Goldberg-Robb Attorney, and Adele Kimmel, Managing Attorney We’ve been following the story of Josi Harrison, a 15-year old from Clatskanie, Oregon, who is displaying great courage in speaking publicly about a “sextortion” scheme at her school that resulted in her providing nude…
By Paul Bland, Senior Attorney @PblandBland Periodically, people ask me rhetorical questions like, “How much worse can the law of arbitration get? I mean, it’s so incredibly bad that it has to have bottomed out, right?” As Jane Wagner famously wrote, no matter how cynical you…
