Underneath All Are the Contracts
Ralph Nader explains the problem with standard form contracts and introduces faircontracts.org.
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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.
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…
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…
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…
Pay Pal Opt-Out
Meet Cat Lobster…You Just Know It Can’t Be Good… The Fair Contracts Opt Out Campaign Do You Have a Pay Pal Account? PAY PAL is giving you a limited chance to preserve your right to go to court by opting out from forced arbitration and class action waivers in the…
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…
October Surprise Lawsuit or Template for Holding Wrongdoers Accountable in the Mortgage Crisis?
October Surprise Lawsuit or Template for Holding Wrongdoers Accountable in the Mortgage Crisis? A security is a contract that can be assigned a value and traded – something Wall Street does all the time. It may be a bond or a share, and backed by something of value, such as a mortgage. When you hear…
Pew Charitable Trusts Initiative Leads to Simplified Checking Account Forms
Pew Charitable Trust has surveyed the checking account paperwork of the major banks, producing two major studies showing the exhorbitantly long median length of the paperwork involved in opening these accounts and making suggestions for reform, including on overdraft fees and the reordering of withdrawals. Their most recent study from their Checking in an Electronic…