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Balancing Business Interests With Consumer Concerns: A Comparative Examination Of U.S. And E.U. Commercial Expression Doctrines , Scott Sivley Jan 2012

Balancing Business Interests With Consumer Concerns: A Comparative Examination Of U.S. And E.U. Commercial Expression Doctrines , Scott Sivley

Global Business Law Review

Warning: This Note does not deal with a particularly new nor particularly interesting subject. If sellers of goods and information were this forthcoming when making claims about their products, this Note would not be necessary. Unfortunately, there is a colossal tug of war, as illustrated by the Occupy Movement in the fall of 2011 and as campaign financing during the 2012 American election cycle has and will continue showing us, emerging in the domestic and global marketplace over who should ultimately be responsible for protecting consumers from irresponsible or false commercial speech. Should we continue down the road of survival …


Group Fraud: Fault Or Duty, William J. Moore Jan 1964

Group Fraud: Fault Or Duty, William J. Moore

Cleveland State Law Review

Recently, the legal bastion of "fairness" and "fault" in fraud and decit cases has been assaulted by courts, administrative agencies, and legal scholars. The walls are still standing, but here and there cracks have begun to appear and the words status and duty are no longer obscene in the field of seller's liability for false and misleading representations. A thorough study would require an analysis of all the environmental factors in a group-institutionalized society and also the interests the courts are protecting. Thispaper will touch on judicial protection of the consumer's interest in physical integrity, and the protection of consumer …