Consumer Contracts

New Report on Car Insurance Redlining

04/07/17

Empirical studies have shown that minorities pay more for goods and services, and that they pay more to finance their purchases of those goods and services -- for instance, through subprime home and auto loans. Machine Bias, a new study from ProPublica and Consumer Reports, adds car insurance premiums to the list of what minorities can expect to pay more for.

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John Oliver and consumer law YouTube videos

08/22/16

I'm trying something new this year.

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Uber Helps Me Revise My Contracts Syllabus

08/14/16

I've been meaning to post about this recent decision, by Judge Rakoff in the Southern District of New York, denying motions by Uber and its CEO Travis Kalanick to compel arbitration of a class action lawsuit.

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DIRECTV v. Imburgia Decided, Surprises No One

12/14/15

Earlier I posted about DIRECTV v. Imburgia. To recap the issue: DIRECTV's contract with subscribers (i) required arbitration, (ii) forbade class actions, and (iii) provided for litigation in court if "the law of [the subscriber's] state" refused to enforce the class action waiver. California law refuses to enforce class action waivers in some circumstances, but this law is preempted by the Federal Arbitration Act.

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Credit Slips Unofficial Contest: Win Everything (all the glory that is)

10/29/15

Shutterstock_309261569Credit Slips has great readers, and I'd love to encourage more of our readership to comment.

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