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How About 'Mr. Victim?'

Brandon L. Garrett | Posted 09.18.2012 | Business
Read More: Deferred Prosecution, Class Actions, Libor, Corporate Prosecutions, Barclays Libor Settlement, Barclays Libor Fixing, Libor Scandal, Barclays Libor, Business News
Brandon L. Garrett

Hundreds of trillions of dollars in trades rely on those rates -- so do student loans, mortgages and credit cards. Who is following the money?

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Don't Go Away Mad, Just Go Away: The Supreme Court Closes Up Shop

David Coleman | Posted 09.05.2011 | Politics
Read More: Supreme Court, Title VII, Wal-Mart, Marx Brothers, Colbert, Night at the Opera, Att, Clarence Thomas, Cellphone Contracts, Dick Cheney, Promotions, Cheif Justiced Roberts, Corporations, California Supreme Court, United States Supreme Court, Employee Rights, Leona Helmsley, Justices, Class Actions, Walmart-vs-Dukes, Supreme Court Walmart, Politics News
David Coleman

Closing down for the summer is not the Roberts Court's only disappearing act. During this past term, a disturbing trend emerged of withdrawing the courts from their historic and institutional role in providing justice for ordinary Americans.

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Supreme Court Rules That Small Claims Cannot Be Pursued Against Big Corporations

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 07.15.2011 | Business
Read More: Supreme Court, Small Claims Barred, Class Actions, Arbitration Claims, AT&T Small Claims, AT&T Supreme Court, AT&T Class Action, Corporate Fraud, AT&T Mobility, Business News
Judge H. Lee Sarokin

With AT&T Mobility vs. Concepcion, the Supreme Court has permitted alleged corporate fraud to go unheard and unpunished and, in turn, has silenced the voice of the consumer in the process.

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