Consumer Protection Law Commons^™

Airlines To Control The Limits Of Carry-On Baggage, Mark Baginskis

Loyola Consumer Law Review

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Taxpayers Benefit From Bipartisan Focus On Taxpayers' Rights: The Irs Restructuring And Reform Act, Martha A. Sabol

Loyola Consumer Law Review

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Financial Institution Merger Enforcement: The Historical Context, Don Allen Resnikoff

Loyola Consumer Law Review

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Courts Split As To Whether Consumers Injured By Hot Coffee Can Seek Recovery, Zachary Rami

Loyola Consumer Law Review

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Consumer News, Mark Allan Baginskis

Loyola Consumer Law Review

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Just When You Thought It Was Safe To Go In The Water: Recent Court Decisions Regarding Yield Spread Premiums Class Certification, Robert M. Jaworski Esq.

Loyola Consumer Law Review

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Protecting Intellectual Property Rights In Software: The Software Patent, Raj Sardesai, Michael J. Ram

Loyola Consumer Law Review

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Tangled In The Web: Federal And State Efforts To Protect Children From Internet Pornography, Jennifer A. Rupert

Loyola Consumer Law Review

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The Identity Theft And Assumption Deterrence Act Of 1998 Do Individual Victims Finally Get Their Day In Court?, Martha A. Sabol

Loyola Consumer Law Review

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Tearing Down A Fence That Is Hog Tight, Horse High & (And) Bull Strong: The Supreme Court Reshapes Jurisdiction Of Local Telephone Markets, T. Jason White

Loyola Consumer Law Review

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The Illinois Consumer Fraud Act: Hey! Where Did The Strict Constructionists Go? Judicial Add-Ons Are Ruining A Perfectly Good Statute, Clinton A. Krislov

Loyola Consumer Law Review

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A Study Of Consumer Protection Law In Hong Kong, Pui Ling Lee, Chi Kwan Chung

Bachelor Degree - Accountancy - Final Year Project

Consumption of goods and services is inevitable in our daily life. So consumer protection is essential for every consumer. However, the existing consumer protection system in Hong Kong is not comprehensive enough to protect consumers. Thus, this project concentrates on studying the consumer protection law in Hong Kong to evaluate its sufficiency for protecting consumers. Besides, we also investigate the Hong Kong consumer protection system, including the functions and powers of the Consumer Council, and make compare it with Australia’s consumer protection system.

The Consumer Council is the only statutory consumer protection body in Hong Kong. It is not an …

Searching For The Holy Grail: The Human Genome Project And Its Implications , Allison Morse

Journal of Law and Health

This Paper will explore the ethical considerations of the reductionist paradigm that the Human Genome Project represents, and analyze how this paradigm affects our political institutions, our family relationships, and even our identity. Part Two will provide the scientific background for a discussion of the Human Genome Project. It will begin by defining two competing theoretical constructs scientists use when exploring biological phenomenon: reductionism and organism. This Part will then offer a rudimentary explanation of how genes function. Yet even this rudimentary explanation illustrates the complexity involved in the functioning of genes, leaving the reductionist notions of genes as the …

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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When Is Property Intellectual: The Leveraging Problem Essays, Mark R. Patterson

Faculty Scholarship

Patents and copyrights protect inventions and expression; they do not protect products. This distinction, I argue in this essay, is a key to the antitrust problem of the "leveraging" of intellectual property. In a typical leveraging case, the manufacturer of a durable good, like a copier or computer, refuses to sell replacement parts for its equipment unless the purchaser also hires the manufacturer to service the equipment. Such a practice can be illegal under antitrust law, but when the leveraging products-in this example, replacement parts-are protected by patent or copyright, the manufacturer will often claim that the leveraging is a …

Who Authors Trademarks?, Steven Wilf

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal

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What Europe, Japan, And Other Countries Can Learn From The New American Restatement Of Products Liability, James A. Henderson Jr., Aaron Twerski

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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A Central Filing System For Financing Statements, Arthur H. Travers Jr., John L. Mccabe

Publications

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Endangering Individual Autonomy In Choice Of Lawyers And Trustees–Misconceived Conflict Of Interest Claims In The Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estate Litigation, James R. Mccall

Faculty Scholarship

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Comment On Professor Roth's Reply, James R. Mccall

Faculty Scholarship

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A Basic Concern For Process: Commentary On Quo Vadis, Prospective Overruling, James R. Mccall

Faculty Scholarship

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Minnesota V. Philip Morris, Inc.: An Important Legal Ethics Message Which Neglects The Public Interest In Product Safety Research, James R. Mccall, Edward J. Imwinkelried

Faculty Scholarship

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A Birthday Party: The Terrible Or Terrific Two’S? 1996 Federal Telecommunications Act, Kathleen Wallman

Federal Communications Law Journal

As we celebrate the second anniversary of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, we can see that the predictions of instant cross-industry competition that were made at its birth were rather euphoric. Despite the unexpected twists and turns of the first two years, there have been a number of significant market developments suggesting that the lowering of barriers that the Act effected have put things on the right course. However, the success of the Act will be rather fragile during the next few years, as it is subject to reversal by market as well as judicial forces. We should therefore continue …

The Common Law "Duty To Serve" And Protection Of Consumers In An Age Of Competitive Retail Public Utility Restructuring, Jim Rossi

Vanderbilt Law School Faculty Publications

This article addresses the implications of retail competition in public utility industries, particularly electricity, for utility service obligations. After tracing the history of the common law duty to serve applicable to public utilities, the efficiency of utility service obligations in the context of rate regulation is explored. Retail competition, many suggest, poses a threat to utility service obligations. However, regulators can minimize the inefficiency of traditional utility service obligations without sacrificing the benefits of retail competition if they pay attention to the structural efficiency of competitive retail markets. The article advocates imposition of basic service obligations on the DisCo and …

The "Public Interest" Standard: The Search For The Holy Grail, Erwin G. Krasnow, Jack N. Goodman

Federal Communications Law Journal

During the last eighty years, there is likely no single area of communications policy that has generated as much scholarly discourse, judicial analysis, and political debate as has the simple directive to regulate in the "public interest." While remaining at the heart of current communications regulatory policy debate, the public interest standard has been subject to evolving, and often elusive definitions that reflect the change in American culture from generation to generation. As broadcasters begin the transition to a more flexible digital technology, there have been calls for a reexamination of the public interest standard. But the genius of the …

Sobriety Test: The Court Walks The Central Hudson Line Once Again In 44 Liquormart, But Passes On A New First Amendment Review, Aaron A. Schmoll

Federal Communications Law Journal

In 1980 the Supreme Court decided Central Hudson and, in so doing, articulated the parameters of the modern commercial speech doctrine. In providing a four-part test to determine the validity of government efforts to restrict commercial speech, the Court engaged in "intermediate scrutiny" and created the expectation among free speech advocates that the Court was finally ready to provide higher measure of constitutional protection to commercial speech. In the nearly fifteen years after Central Hudson, these advocates have been disappointed as the Court has inconsistently weighed the factors that comprise the test. The opportunity to adopt a less- manipulative …

Achieving Consensus On Defective Product Design, James A. Henderson Jr., Aaron Twerski

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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The Politics Of The Products Liability Restatement, James A. Henderson Jr., Aaron Twerski

Cornell Law Faculty Publications

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Consumer Protection, Globalization And Democracy, John Goldring

Cardozo Journal of International and Comparative Law

The article examines the challenges posed by globalization to consumer protection and the role of nation-states in regulating economic activities. It argues that while globalization offers benefits, it often undermines consumer protections by creating inequalities in information and economic power. The analysis highlights the tension between international trade agreements, which can limit national sovereignty, and the need for robust consumer protection laws. The article also explores the complexities of extraterritorial enforcement of laws and the role of nation-states in maintaining legal frameworks that balance consumer rights with business interests.

Equitable Estoppel And The Outer Boundaries Of Federal Arbitration Law: The Alabama Supreme Court's Retrenchment Of An Expansive Federal Policy Favoring Arbitration, David F. Sawrie

Vanderbilt Law Review

A consumer purchases a manufactured home from a commercial vendor.' As part of the commercial transaction, the consumer and vendor execute a sales agreement containing the following arbitration clause: "All disputes, claims, or controversies arising from or relating to this Contract or the relationships which result from this Contract... shall be resolved by binding arbitration .... ,, The manufacturer of the home is not a party to the sales contract. Rather, the manufacturer issues a separate warranty agreement in connection with the consumer's purchase.

When the consumer discovers defects in the home, the consumer sues both the commercial vendor and …