Group chief executive Peter Marks, said it would create the largest consumer law business in the country.
"The sufficient-income provision is hopelessly vague, " says Chi Chi Wu, a lawyer with the National Consumer Law Center.
For two decades, Addison has been Chairman of the Consumer Law Task Force of Kentucky Legal Services Programs.
Under French consumer law, for instance, manufacturers are not allowed to tether phones to particular carriers beyond six months.
The vast majority of these cards promise 0% interest for at least six months, says Chi Chi Wu, an attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, a consumer-advocacy group in Boston.
"I'm skeptical that this is going to suddenly result in a huge downturn of lending in this area, " said John Van Alst, staff attorney with the National Consumer Law Center in Boston.
The decision by Judge Ronald Gould chastises lawyers at prominent firms Lieff Cabraser and the National Consumer Law Center for knowingly setting up the conflict and failing to alert the court about it.
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He was chairman of the Kentucky Bar Association Bankruptcy Section in 2006-07 and has been a speaker on consumer law topics and foreclosure defense at numerous continuing legal education seminars in Kentucky and nationally at seminars and conferences sponsored by AARP, The National Consumer Law Center, and the National Association of Consumer Advocates.
Calo thinks that these lessons could strengthen the case for a national consumer privacy law.
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The Kansas Supreme Court recently held that doctors can be sued under that state's consumer protection law, as a kind of end run around traditional malpractice suits.
Challenging him is Elizabeth Warren, a liberal Harvard professor known in Washington for designing a new consumer protection law and for the rage she provokes among conservatives.
It recently revised its narrow securities statute into a broad state consumer protection law that allows regulators to shut down boiler rooms without first trying to figure whether what they are selling is a security.
America is thinking of creating a general consumer-privacy law and the European Union is updating its rules.
"This is a very basic consumer-protection law and it is also a very basic civil-rights law, " said Mr. Mintz.
There have been similar unpleasant surprises in employment and consumer-protection law.
First, there is no national law governing consumer warranties, and state laws vary widely.
Consumer groups use the law too, and so do businesses fighting unreasonable tax demands.
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is now law.
But consumer lobbies not backed by law and force are ultimately impotent.
There is no comprehensive U.S. law that protects consumer privacy online.
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Despite his pledge to repeal the law, if elected, Romney has promised to continue some of the law's consumer protections, such as the ban on preventing care based on pre-existing conditions.
Some banks may even be violating the law outright, say consumer advocates.
The explosive power of consumer fireworks is governed by federal law, which since the 1960s has banned powerful firecrackers with names such as M-80s and cherry bombs.
The drugmaker insists, however, that the Alabama State Court goofed by allowing the consumer to circumvent state product liability law and, instead, present his claim as fraud and misrepresentation.
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The value of any particular flavour of ice cream thus depends upon the subjective preferences of the consumer: not on any other law that we can derive from either logic or observation.
"What the World Cup did was increase maybe consumer confidence and gave that sort of wave of euphoria which lead to stronger consumer spending, " said Alexander Law, chief economist at Xerfi, an economical analysis company.
His claim: That the law firm had violated federal consumer protection laws by failing to conduct a meaningful investigation of his underlying debt.
In the meantime, we'll keep our eyes peeled for a worthy contender -- after all, Moore's Law (and the 2013 Consumer Electronics Show) never sleeps.
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