Underneath All Are the Contracts
Ralph Nader explains the problem with standard form contracts and introduces faircontracts.org.
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The CFPB Will Study Forced Arbitration — Time to Submit Comments!
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced today that it will study the impact of forced arbitration in consumer financial services contracts, as required by the Dodd-Frank Act passed in 2010. The CFPB is seeking public comments by June 23, 2012. A 2009 Public Citizen Report Forced Arbitration: Unfair and Everywhere, co-authored and researched by the Fair…
Warning! The Fine Print in Contracts May Be Hazardous To Your Wealth.
Here are two differently-sized sheets of downloadable labels so you can pass on the message….
Nader: Airlines Keep Billions From Confiscatory Fine Print on Airline Tickets
Fair Contracts and Ralph Nader made a Freedom of Information Act Request to find out how much money the major airlines keep from those unused, nonrefundable tickets people don’t or can’t or forget to use within the one-year expiration limit set by the airlines in their fine print contracts of carriage terms. It turns out…
The White House and the Federal Trade Commission Issue Privacy Reports
In early 2012 both The White House and the Federal Trade Commission have issued privacy reports, including a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. See Consumer Data Privacy in a Networked World: A Framework for Protecting Privacy and Promoting Innovation in the Global Digital Economy at http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/privacy-final.pdf See also: Protecting Consumer Privacy in an Era of…
Three Pieces on Forced Arbitration in the Fine Print
See these three great pieces on Forced Arbitration in the Fine Print http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/07/opinion/stuck-in-arbitration.html?ref=todayspaper http://centerjd.org/content/fact-sheet-mandatory-binding-arbitration-corporate-end-run-around-civil-justice-system http://www.thepoptort.com/2012/03/mandatory-binding-arbitration-gets-a-super-critique.html
Support Fair Contracts Legislation in Illinois!
Fair Contracts is supporting four bills in the Illinois General Assembly this session. If you live in Illinois and want to help make fine print contracts more accessible and understandable, we would like you to support these bills too by contacting your representatives
Bob Sullivan, MSNBC: “Airlines secretly cash in on unused tickets”
MSNBC’s Bob Sullivan reports on Nader’s efforts to discover airline revenues from unused tickets. http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/10/10366774-airlines-secretly-cash-in-on-unused-tickets
One-sided, fine-print mortgage contracts, foreclosure fraud and the Occupy movement — An Op Ed by Nader & Amato in the Chicago Tribune
"The equitable case is the widespread fraud and deception involving subprime mortgages raining down on innocent homeowners following the Wall Street crash and the corporate greed that caused it. This is the ugly license fostered by massively one-sided, fine-print contracts. "The strictly legal case stems from the fabricated documents, the phony paper trails under the…
Join Us Friday, January 27 on Hidden Traps, Fair Contracts & Consumer Choice
Don’t miss this exciting panel discussion! See the attached PDF for details and RSVP today to Loyola Law School by sending an email to [email protected] to confirm your seat. For information on CLE, please visit LUC.edu/antitrust (Programs and Events) as registration fees apply only for those seeking CLE.
Contract Reform Team Submits Comments to the CFPB on Student Loans
DePaul University College of Law Student Sarah Moravia Submits Contract Reform Team Comments on Student Loan Provisions to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau