Briefs and Comments

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In testimony before the D.C. Council’s Committee on Public Works and Operations today, two distinguished consumer policy professionals called on lawmakers to pass critical reforms to the District’s Consumer Protection Procedures Act (CPPA).

Samuel Levine, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley Law’s Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice and former Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, emphasized the urgent need to modernize D.C.’s consumer...

The Center applauds the California Court of Appeal’s decision this week in People v. Adir International (Curacao), affirming a win at trial for the California Attorney General’s long-running lawsuit against Curacao – a chain of department stores in Southern California and Arizona that has long preyed on low-income Latino immigrants. The Center, along with Public Counsel and Bet Tzedek, filed an amicus ...

An amicus brief filed today in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit says the Administration’s attempt to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is “an unconstitutional power grab” that will inflict enormous damage on ordinary Americans and the U.S. economy if the agency is shuttered. The brief––filed by the Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice at UC Berkeley, Tzedek...

At the urging of the Center on behalf of nine legal services and consumer advocacy organizations, along with the plaintiffs, the California Court of Appeal has ordered publication of its recent decision in Jones v. Solgen Construction, LLC The previously unpublished decision – which may now be cited – provides guidance to courts and litigants in addressing the growing problem of fraud in door-to-door residential solar panel sales.

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