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Bombing Markets, Subverting The Rule Of Law: Enron, Financial Fraud, And September 11, 2001, Faith Stevelman

Articles & Chapters

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Arbitration Of Truth-In-Lending-Act Claims, Marshall E. Tracht

Articles & Chapters

In recent years, it has become increasingly common for lenders to include arbitration clauses in their consumer financing agreements. While federal law strongly supports the enforceability of arbitration provisions, there are a number of grounds on which their enforceability can be, and has been, challenged.

This article summarizes the state of the law on a number of major issues which have arisen in the attempt to use arbitration clauses in consumer financing agreements, focusing on Truth-in-Lending Act claims, including an analysis of the Supreme Court's recent decision in Green Tree Financial Corp. v. Randolph.

The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act: Overview Of The Key Provisions; Presentation Before The State Of New York Banking Department, David L. Glass

NYLS Journal of Human Rights

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Financial Privacy, Gregory T. Nojeim

NYLS Journal of Human Rights

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Commodities Rulings Appealable To Circuit (New York Law Journal), Daniel Wise

News Articles

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Shedding Some Light On Lending: The Effect Of Expanded Disclosure Laws On Home Mortgage Marketing, Lending And Discrimination In The New York Metropolitan Area, Richard D. Marsico

Articles & Chapters

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Competition Policy In America 1888-1992: History, Rhetoric, Law, Rudolph J.R. Peritz

Books

Americans have long appealed to images of free competition in calling for free enterprise, freedom of contract, free labor, free trade, and free speech. This imagery has retained its appeal in myriad aspects of public policy--for example, Senator Sherman's Anti-Trust Act of 1890, Justice Holmes's metaphorical marketplace of ideas, and President Reagan's rhetoric of deregulation.

In Competition Policy in America, 1888-1992, Rudolph Peritz explores the durability of free competition imagery by tracing its influences on public policy. Looking at congressional debates and hearings, administrative agency activities, court opinions, arguments of counsel, and economic, legal, and political scholarship, he finds …

Romandette V. Weetabix Co., Inc., 807 F. 2d 309 - Court Of Appeals, 2nd Circuit 1986, Roger J. Miner '56

Circuit Court Opinions

Anthony Romandette appeals pro se from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (Brieant, J.) dismissing his diversity action for failure to effect service of the summons and complaint, Fed.R.Civ.P. 4, and for neglect to prosecute, Fed.R.Civ.P. 41(b). At the time the lawsuit was instituted — December 3, 1984 — and throughout most of the litigation, Romandette was incarcerated. Due to his incarceration, he was dependent upon prison library facilities to research his legal claims and, because of his in forma pauperis status, dependent upon United States Marshals to effectuate service of …

New Video Technologies In The United States: Regulatory And Intellectual Property Considerations, Michael Botein

Articles & Chapters

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Contractual Disclaimer And Limitation Of Liability Under The Law Of New York, James Brook

Articles & Chapters

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New Communications Technologies: The Emerging Antitrust Agenda, Michael Botein

Articles & Chapters

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Jurisdictional And Antitrust Considerations In The Regulation Of The New Communications Technologies, Michael Botein

Articles & Chapters

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Consumer Sensitivity To Interest Rates: An Empirical Study Of New-Car Buyers And Auto Loans, James J. White, Frank W. Munger

Articles & Chapters

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