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Using the Corporate Fine Print of Debit Card Contracts to Zing Public-Transit Riders (and, in turn, to generate non-fare revenue fees for cash-strapped government agencies)

By theresa / March 22, 2013 / Comments Off on Using the Corporate Fine Print of Debit Card Contracts to Zing Public-Transit Riders (and, in turn, to generate non-fare revenue fees for cash-strapped government agencies)

Our guest post on the Public Citizen Consumer Law & Policy Blog about the CTA Ventra fare/debit card roll out can be found here.  Fair Contracts made a FOIA request for the contract and the information to be presented to CTA riders.   

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Rick Perlstein at The Nation Magazine Writes About Our Fair Contracts Work

By theresa / March 15, 2013 / Comments Off on Rick Perlstein at The Nation Magazine Writes About Our Fair Contracts Work

Rick Perlstein at The Nation Magazine Writes About Our Fair Contracts Work See Small Print, Big Problem (Part 1: Diagnosis) here and Small Print, Big Problem (Part 2:  Remedies) here. The PDF of both is posted with permission here.

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Meet Frog Hog

By theresa / February 27, 2013 / Comments Off on Meet Frog Hog

THE FROG HOG’S TOP FIVE PROVISIONS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN BOILERPLATE CONTRACTS 1) There goes the Judge! Don’t let the fine print lock you out of the courtroom because it forces you into arbitration instead – often in places far away from where you live or work! 2) There goes the Class! Don’t let…

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Bob Sullivan at Red Tape Chronicles Discusses Boilerplate, Fair Contracts Advisory Board Member Professor Margaret Jane Radin’s Book

By theresa / December 23, 2012 / Comments Off on Bob Sullivan at Red Tape Chronicles Discusses Boilerplate, Fair Contracts Advisory Board Member Professor Margaret Jane Radin’s Book

Bob Sullivan of NBC’s Red Tape Chronicles discusses Professor Margaret Jane Radin’s book Boilerplate here.  

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Fair Contracts Advisory Board Member Margaret Jane Radin’s book, Boilerplate, Gets Great Review in the Wall Street Journal

By theresa / December 22, 2012 / Comments Off on Fair Contracts Advisory Board Member Margaret Jane Radin’s book, Boilerplate, Gets Great Review in the Wall Street Journal

Fair Contracts Advisory Board Member Margaret Jane Radin’s book, Boilerplate, Gets Great Review in the Wall Street Journal Robert F. Nagel favorably reviews Professor Radin’s book in a December 20, 2012 Wall Street Journal article:  “Devil’s in the Small Print; Boilerplate contracts undermine rights people are entitled to by requiring that one party to an…

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Come One, Come All to Hear Professor Margaret Jane Radin Speak on Her New Book Boilerplate

By theresa / December 11, 2012 / Comments Off on Come One, Come All to Hear Professor Margaret Jane Radin Speak on Her New Book Boilerplate

In the last three months three significant books have been published on the fine print in standard form contracts.  Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Cay Johnston has written The Fine Print, How Big Companies Use “Plain English” to Rob You Blind (published by the Penguin Group); New York University Law Professor Oren-Bar Gill has written Seduction…

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American Law Institute’s Restatement Third, The Law of Consumer Contracts

By theresa / December 3, 2012 / Comments Off on American Law Institute’s Restatement Third, The Law of Consumer Contracts

The American Law Institute has a group now working on the Restatement Third, The Law of Consumer Contracts.  It held its first Advisers meeting at NYU Law on Friday, November 30, to begin the process of clarifying how the law treats/should treat boilerplate business-to-consumer contracts, as compared to negotiated contracts, because they are currently lumped…

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Fine Print and the Frankenstorm

By theresa / October 31, 2012 / Comments Off on Fine Print and the Frankenstorm
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The Whistleblower, The “Hustle” and The Bank…of America

By theresa / October 25, 2012 / Comments Off on The Whistleblower, The “Hustle” and The Bank…of America
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The Fine Print, a Fine Read on How a Rigged Economy Harms Consumers

By theresa / October 6, 2012 / Comments Off on The Fine Print, a Fine Read on How a Rigged Economy Harms Consumers

Rigged Economy Harms Consumers Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston asks why the United States ranks forty-seventh out of 224 countries in infant mortality, forty-sixth in the share of our economy spent on public education, thirty-seventh in the quality of our health care (with approximately 50 million without insurance), and “dead last” in 2009 among…

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