Toward a New Consumer Protection

Toward a New Consumer Protection

Consumer protection is everywhere in retreat. Congress has rejected the Food and Drug Administration's proposed ban on saccharin,' and several courts and state legislatures have attempted to block the FDA's attack on Laetrile.2 The Consumer Product Safety Commission's recent ruling that swimming pool slides must carry danger warnings 3 has elicited widespread ridicule, brought a reversal in the...

Protection of consumer rights in Cyberspace

Today’s civil law faced new challenges and situations for protecting human in role of consumer and also attention to industrial life growing made new branch of law called consumer law that have some positive result in all economic, social and political aspects like increasing household income, reduce conflict and tension between buyer and seller in society and increased public participation in ...

Consumer Protection

n this article, I survey the state of the mortgage loan transfer system, the legal rules that govern it, and the widening gap between those rules and the practices in the secondary mortgage market just prior to the 2008 crisis. The review includes some empirical assessment of the extent of errors and execution problems; the damage done by “robo-signing;” the Mortgage Electronic Registration Sys...

Antitrust, Consumer Protection, and the New Information Platforms

Consumer Protection Act – Awareness ?

Background: With the inclusion of health care services under Consumer Protection Act, a spurt in litigations arising out of breach in medical/dental profession is seen. Thus, it becomes imperative for health professionals today to be aware of such laws. Objective: To assess and compare the awareness about Consumer Protection Act among dentists (dentists in teaching institutions and dentists in ...