On the horizon are CES, which continues to reign supreme for consumer tech and electronics buffs, and South By Southwest (SXSW), which does the same for interactive, music and film aficionados.

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In 2005 the Salahis, as owners of a small Virginia winery, threw a party to celebrate the U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized direct-to-consumer interstate wine shipping.

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Japanese consumer finance stocks have had a terrible stretch since the country's Supreme Court ruled in January that lenders were exacting kabarai--usury, that is.

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Consumer privacy group EPIC, among others, filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case.

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While legal challenges to ObamaCare are making news as they as they head toward the U.S. Supreme Court, what can be done about the Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank)?

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Both the Aereo and Dish technologies rely on the 1984 Supreme Court holding in the Betamax case, which made it clear that consumer recording technology, in that case the VCR, is legal if it has uses that do not infringe copyright 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.

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The prices of shares in the biggest consumer-finance companies are between 6% and 27% lower than they were before the Supreme Court's ruling.

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