Posted in Congress, Consumer Protection, Litigation, Product Safety on July 2, 2008 | No Comments »
From Graham Steele and David Arkush @ Watchdog Blog: Far too often, the press covers civil justice issues purely as battles between special interests — business versus “the trial lawyers” — without much discussion on how the policies at issue would affect the public. We weren’t surprised when the Wall Street Journal presented our opposition [...]
Posted in Auto Safety, Congress, Consumer Protection, Product Safety, tagged Auto Safety, NHTSA, roof crush on July 1, 2008 | No Comments »
It looks like we’ll have to wait until October for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s new vehicle roof crush standard, after rumors of a delay have proven true.
Consumer Affairs reports this afternoon that the Department of Transportation informed Congress of the delay with hours to spare before the deadline.
Of course, a delay doesn’t signify [...]
Posted in Auto Safety, Congress, Consumer Protection, tagged Auto Safety, NHTSA, roof crush on June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Remember earlier this month when Public Citizen and other consumer advocates trekked to the Hill to tell a Senate committee that the National Highway Safety Administration’s proposed roof crush standard is woefully inadequate?
Now, reports have emerged stating NHTSA might not even make its July 1 deadline for submitting the proposal. The Detroit News, Automotive World [...]
Posted in Congress, Consumer Protection, Health, Litigation, Pharmaceuticals, Product Safety on June 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Maybe, the founding fathers actually knew what they were doing when they set up a system of checks and balances that ensure that no one branch of our government can become too powerful. We see examples all the time where the President and Congress clash over issues or where the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in [...]
Posted in Consumer Protection, Internet on June 26, 2008 | No Comments »
Cross posted from CL&P Blog
By Paul Alan Levy
In a recent series of demands, a purveyor of “nutraceuticals” called mynutritionstore.com threatened to sue Julia Forte over consumer criticisms appearing on her web site 800notes.com, a forum for identification and discussion of telemarketers based on their phone numbers. (The specific dispute is summarized here) Mynutritionstore’s [...]
Posted in Consumer Protection, Health, Pharmaceuticals, Product Safety on June 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
If the British recognize that the drug propoxyphene is too dangerous to prescribe to patients, what’s keeping Americans from realizing the same thing?
The U.K. began a phased withdrawal of Darvocet, which contains propoxyphene, from the British market in 2005, after the U.K. Committee on Safety of Medicines recommended that they do so. In its report, [...]
Posted in Auto Safety, Congress, Consumer Protection, Product Safety on June 4, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Photo by Frank Rogers
David Garcia (top) was 29 when he was in a rollover crash that left him a quadriplegic. On Wednesday, he spoke before a U.S. Senate committee to urge Congress to come up with a stronger roof crush standard for vehicles. A new standard proposed by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is [...]
Posted in Climate Change, Congress, Consumer Protection, Energy, tagged commodities, Energy, futures, gas, oil prices on May 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We applaud the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for publicly acknowledging what most educated observers have been saying for months: Wall Street speculators are reaping unconscionable profits by exploiting and manipulating the unregulated energy trading markets.
Commodity traders have pushed oil prices far higher than what can be explained by basic supply and demand. Under mounting [...]
Posted in Congress, Consumer Protection, tagged credit cards, arbitration on May 29, 2008 | No Comments »
Check out this report on ABC News about the unfairness of the private arbitration system forced on consumers by credit card companies and other businesses. I’ve posted about mandatory binding arbitration but this report has an unbelievable example of how stacked the system is against consumers. These binding arbitration clauses are included in the fine [...]
Posted in Consumer Protection, Internet, Litigation, tagged Internet, software, autodesk, design on May 23, 2008 | No Comments »
There’s some buzz about our win this week against Autodesk and its attempt to keep entrepreneur Timothy Vernor from selling second-hand copies of its software on eBay. A federal judge refused to dismiss Vernor’s lawsuit against Autodesk and in doing so made it pretty clear that Vernor had a right to sell legally obtained, copyrighted [...]
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