Underneath All Are the Contracts
Ralph Nader explains the problem with standard form contracts and introduces faircontracts.org.
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Fair Contracts Stands Up for Elizabeth Warren
Fair Contracts Stands Up for Elizabeth Warren in the Washington Post and in Counterpunch. See: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-leadership/elizabeth-warren-wicked-smart-and-on-her-way-out/2011/07/18/gIQAy4eFMI_story_1.htmlAnd: http://www.counterpunch.org/amato07182011.htmlThank you Elizabeth Warren for all your hard work to make contracts more fair for American consumers! We expect great progress as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau you have shaped launches this week on July 21.
Fair Contracts Featured on Reporter Bob Sullivan’s MSNBC’s Red Tape Chronicles
Fair Contracts is featured on Reporter Bob Sullivan’s MSNBC’s Red Tape Chronicles: http://redtape.msnbc.msn.com/
Fair Contracts to Host Panel Discussion on What Can Be Done to Make the Fine Print in Standard Form Contracts Fair, June 24 at Chicago-Kent College of Law
Fair Contracts to Host Panel Discussion on What Can Be Done to Make the Fine Print in Standard Form Contracts Fair for Consumers, Friday, June 24, 2011 at 2 p.m. at the Chicago-Kent College of Law See the attached PDF for Details/Video Highlights to Follow in July Now Approved for 1.0 hr of MCLE in IL. …
Ralph Nader Writes “Contract Peonage” An “Open Letter to Attorneys for Contract Incarceration”
Ralph Nader Writes "Contract Peonage" An "Open Letter to Attorneys for Contract Incarceration": It is time to shine the light on the big, affluent corporate lawyers who anonymously create those non-competitive fine print contracts we all have to sign to purchase goods and services. It’s time for an open letter to these Darth Vaders of business…
Lonnie Ray Atkinson’s Hip Hop Song for Health Justice
Check out Lonnie Ray Atkinson’s Hip Hop Song for Health Justice/Single Payer and notice the lyrics about all the trips and traps of health insurance, including "no more wading through plan restrictions."
How Safe Are Your Savings?
John Wasik, award-winning author of 13 books and personal finance columnist for Reuters, has issued this report with Demos, titled How Safe Are Your Savings? How Complex Derivatives Products Imperil Seniors’ Retirement Savings. Fair Contracts Intern Dylan Hanson and Citizen Works contributed to the background research. Wasik writes: Few investors fully understand what they’ve been…
Article Discussing Proposed Solutions to Unilateral Modification Provisions
Article with proposed solution ("Change Approval Boards") for unilateral modification terms within contracts. Oren Bar-Gill and Kevin E. Davis, "Empty Promises" 84(1) Southern California LawReview 1-44 (2010). Here is the version on SSRN:http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1554966.
The Supreme Court Rules Against Consumers By Allowing Companies to Enforce Unconscionable Class Action Waivers in the Forced Arbitration Provisions of Fine Print Contracts
Today the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in a closely-watched case that waivers of class action rights within arbitration provisions in company contracts are enforceable, even where a state deems those provisions to be unconscionable. The case involves two consumers, Vincent and Liza Concepcion, who bought cell phones that AT& T advertised as discounted (one phone…
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Launches Website
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Now Has a Website On February 3, 2011, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), still in formation, launched its website to begin a conversation with consumers. The Bureau’s opening film says it will "work to cut down on the fine print." On Friday, September 17, 2010, President Obama appointed Elizabeth…
Nisson Motor Acceptance Corp. “Signature Lease”
Contract:Nisson Motor Acceptance Corp. Signature Lease.pdf