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1994

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Full-Text Articles in Consumer Protection Law

Cigarette Classification A Burning Issue - New Evidence Could Lead To 'Drug' Classification For Cigarettes, Michael S. Burkhard, M. Allison Despard Jan 1994

Cigarette Classification A Burning Issue - New Evidence Could Lead To 'Drug' Classification For Cigarettes, Michael S. Burkhard, M. Allison Despard

Loyola Consumer Law Review

No abstract provided.


Volume Six Indices - Author Index Jan 1994

Volume Six Indices - Author Index

Loyola Consumer Law Review

No abstract provided.


Product Definition, Product Information, And Market Power: Kodak In Perspective, Mark R. Patterson Jan 1994

Product Definition, Product Information, And Market Power: Kodak In Perspective, Mark R. Patterson

Faculty Scholarship

In Eastman Kodak Co. v. Image Technical Services, Inc., product information, market costs, market information the United States Supreme Court held that market power sufficient to impose an illegal tying arrangement can, at least in theory, derive from buyers' uncertainty regarding a product's costs and quality. Although commentators disagree on the implications of the Kodak decision, all seem to agree that the opinion's emphasis on product information costs is a departure from previously accepted economic analysis of antitrust law. In this Article, Mark R. Patterson argues that the Kodak decision is, in fact, economically reasonable, incorporating into antitrust law previously …


Exporting Bank Credit Card Rates And Charges, Ralph J. Rohner Jan 1994

Exporting Bank Credit Card Rates And Charges, Ralph J. Rohner

Scholarly Articles

Banks enjoy virtually unlimited authority to export interest rates, late fees, and over-limit charges across state lines. Open issues include the exportability of other fees, the viability of consumer common law claims such as unconscionability, and the effect of home-state choice-of-law.


Officers And Directors Of Failed Federally Chartered Financial Institutions Will Be Held To A Gross Negligence Standard Of Liability, Joyce E. Raupp Jan 1994

Officers And Directors Of Failed Federally Chartered Financial Institutions Will Be Held To A Gross Negligence Standard Of Liability, Joyce E. Raupp

Loyola Consumer Law Review

No abstract provided.


Rewriting Beginnings: The Lessons Of Gautreaux, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 57 (1994), Janet Koven Levit Jan 1994

Rewriting Beginnings: The Lessons Of Gautreaux, 28 J. Marshall L. Rev. 57 (1994), Janet Koven Levit

UIC Law Review

No abstract provided.


Cutting The Bill For Commonwealth Edison's Nuclear Power Plants: Important Gains For Illinois Public Utility Customers, Robert Jones Jan 1994

Cutting The Bill For Commonwealth Edison's Nuclear Power Plants: Important Gains For Illinois Public Utility Customers, Robert Jones

Journal Articles

In 1993 Commonwealth Edison, Illinois’s largest electric utility agreed to pay its customers $1.3 billion, the biggest refund issued by a utility in United States history, and to reduce its electricity rates by $339 million per year. This refund and rate reduction settled a decade-long series of cases with consumer advocates over the billions of dollars Edison spent constructing five nuclear power plants. The litigation not only offered relief to Edison customers, who paid some of the highest rates in the country. It dramatically changed Illinois law, giving public utility companies strong incentive to generate electricity through less costly and …