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CFPB Takes on Mandatory Arbitration Clauses

By WBE | 4.30.2012 | For Consumers, You Should Know
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) opened its doors less than a year ago. Even though the federal agency was created in July, it announced last week that it would be taking on a ...
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A Call to Restore the Rights of Generic Drug Consumers

By WBE | 4.17.2012 | For Consumers, You Should Know
Warning labels on generic drugs have garnered a lot of attention recently, and for good reason.  In PLIVA, Inc. v. Mensing, 131 S. Ct. 2567 (2011), the Supreme Court held that federal drug ...
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Criminalizing Whistleblowers: Big Ag Wins at Consumers’ Expense

By WBE | 4.13.2012 | For Consumers, Hall Of Shame, You Should Know
On March 2, 2012, Iowa’s Governor Branstad signed House File 589 into law, creating a new crime of “agricultural production facility fraud.”  Utah passed a similar “agricultural operations ...
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Timely News Reminders on the Importance of Private Antitrust Enforcement

By WBE | 4.4.2012 | For Consumers, You Should Know
On April 2, I read two news stories that highlighted to me the importance of the trial bar’s continuing dedication to private antitrust enforcement.  The fact that these two public announcements ...
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Mazza v. Honda: The Death of Class Action, or Just Making the Plaintiffs’ Bar Work a Little Harder?

By WBE | 3.7.2012 | For Consumers, In The News, You Should Know
In January in Mazza v. Honda, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated an order of the Central District of California certifying a nationwide class of purchasers and lessees of the Acura RL ...
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A Renewed Attempt To End Anticompetitive Pay-For-Delay Settlement Agreements

By WBE | 3.5.2012 | For Consumers, In The News, You Should Know
President Obama invoked the ire of the pharmaceutical industry a few weeks ago by including in his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2013 a renewed proposal “to increase the availability of ...
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