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					<div class="title"><a href="http://classlawblog.com/ftc-advises-consumer-to-check-their-credit-reportsright-now/">FTC Advises Consumer to Check Their Credit Reports…Right Now</a></div>
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				<p>This week the FTC released a 370 page report documenting the accuracy levels of the three largest credit reporting companies; it revealed a 5% margin of error.</p>
<p>As many as one in twenty Americans has reported finding factually incorrect numbers when they checked their credit report—a mistake the FTC warns may have cost those same Americans countless loans, mortgage, and leasing opportunities.</p>
<p>Though all three companies, Experian, Equifax and TransUnion, have issued statements promising to be vigilant in their efforts to correct these errors, the FTC states that the responsibility still rests with the consumer to alert credit reporting agencies to any misinformation their report may contain.</p>
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					<div class="title"><a href="http://classlawblog.com/macmillan-pays-20-million-in-state-class-settlement/">Macmillan Pays $20 Million in State, Class Settlement</a></div>
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				<p>Well, another member of the e-book price-fixing saga has thrown in their cards; this week, MacMillan Publishers agreed to pay out $20 Million to the consumer class action settlement (led by Hagens Berman) that has been eating away at headlines for the better part of 2012.</p>
<p>Macmillan proposed the settlement as an add-on to the nearly $70 Million dollar pot of funds administered by Simon & Schuster, Harper Collins, and Hachette for e-book price-fixing pay-outs. The offer is not expected to be appealed.</p>
<p>Andrew Albanese of PW, <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/content-and-e-books/article/55901-macmillan-to-pay-20-million-to-settle-class-action-price-fixing-claims.html">reports</a> that Penguin and Apple, the last publishing giants to maintain their innocence without throwing millions into the pool of compensatory payments, are still squarely in the headlights of Hagens Berman as they move forward with litigation.</p>
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					<div class="title"><a href="http://classlawblog.com/deceptive-home-warranty-lawsuits-on-the-rise/">Deceptive Home Warranty Lawsuits on the Rise</a></div>
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				<p>Home Warranty Lawsuits have been filed against various home warranty companies alleging numerous issues with the insurance programs that companies are providing to cover home appliances. Specifically, customers allege that home warranty providers that offer extended warranties go back on their claims, and practice “bad faith” techniques such as: not filling out paperwork in a timely manner, failing to conduct a proper investigation into a claim or using unreasonable grounds to deny a claim.</p>
<p>Home warranty companies offer extended warranty service contracts to cover the repair and replacement necessary after general “wear and tear” of an appliance. Often, a retailer will offer customers an extended warranty that would provide insurance coverage on their purchase beyond the typical one-year warranty coverage that the manufacturer of the appliance will provide.</p>
<p>Systems and appliances that may be covered by a home warranty include heating systems, central air conditioners, garbage disposals, ovens, dishwashers and refrigerators, as well as washing and drying machines. If you or anyone you know has been administered a deceptive home warranty insurance claim, please contact Finkelstein Thompson at 202.337.8000, or email us at contact@finkelsteinthompson.com</p>
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					<div class="title"><a href="http://classlawblog.com/bank-of-america-reaches-11-6-billion-settlement-over-mortgages/">Bank of America Reaches $11.6 Billion Settlement over Mortgages</a></div>
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				<p>An $11.6 billion settlement has been approved between Bank of America and government mortgage agency Fannie Mae regarding the soured mortgage-backed investments the bank loaned during the collapse of the housing industry. Under the terms of the deal, Bank of America will pay $3.6 billion in cash to Fannie Mae, and buy back $6.75 billion in loans that the bank and its Countrywide Financial unit sold to the agency from Jan. 1, 2000 through Dec. 31, 2008. That includes about 30,000 loans. The bank is also paying $1.3 billion to the agency for failing to deal with foreclosures fast enough.</p>
<p>Another settlement has also been announced between federal regulators and Bank of America, among other major bank and mortgage companies, over wrongful foreclosure practices. That $8.5 billion settlement covers up to 3.8 million people who were in foreclosure in 2009 and 2010.</p>
<p>The settlement is viewed by<a title="some" href="http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202584239666" target="_blank"> some</a> as a step in the right direction for Bank of America, who has faced a number of missteps in the past couple of years and has suffered from rightful consumer criticism.</p>
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					<div class="title"><a href="http://classlawblog.com/consumer-reporting-agencies-face-class-action-lawsuits-for-violations-of-fair-credit-reporting-act/">Consumer Reporting Agencies Face Class Action Lawsuits for Violations of Fair Credit Reporting Act</a></div>
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				<p>Consumer Reporting Agencies or “CRAs”, firms that specialize in background screenings, are forced to confront an uprising in lawsuits concerning the accuracy of their reports, and their failure to meet the guidelines of the federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), an act that regulates background checks and the collection and use of consumer information in theUnited States. This will mean that it is now crucial for CRAs to review their own policies to ensure that they are in compliance will all aspects of the FCRA. Class action lawsuits tend to focus on either legal compliance with the FCRA or questions of accuracy.</p>
<p> In November 2012, a large background screening firm faced with a class action lawsuit alleging that the firm’s reports violated the FCRA, failed to have the FCRA declared unconstitutional on the basis that it violates the right to free speech under the First Amendment. The court ruled that the FCRA was in fact constitutional since it regulated information disseminated for private purposes for a fee, and not to the public. For more information on class action lawsuits that allege violations of the FCRA, click <a title="here" href="http://www.esrcheck.com/wordpress/2012/12/19/class-action-lawsuits-for-violations-of-fair-credit-reporting-act-becoming-more-common-for-consumer-reporting-agencies/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
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					<div class="title"><a href="http://classlawblog.com/fda-investigates-potentially-hazardous-energy-drinks/">FDA Investigates Potentially Hazardous Energy Drinks</a></div>
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				<p>The FDA has declared that it is seriously investigating multiple energy drinks and supplements after numerous deaths have been linked to their use.  Officials have associated 13 deaths to 5 hour Energy, a liquid “shot” that contains a high amount of caffeine. Furthermore, the parents of a 14 year old girl from Maryland are claiming that Monster Energy Drinks lead to their daughter’s death. Her autopsy report attributed her death to “cardiac arrhythmia due to caffeine toxicity.”</p>
<p>The FDA <a title="claims" href="http://www.fda.gov/Food/NewsEvents/ucm328536.htm" target="_blank">claims</a> that because many of the ingredients in the energy drinks are considered “safe” and are not considered food additives, they are allowed to be added to conventional foods without FDA preapproval.</p>
<p>The FDA also stresses that even though the products have been singled out as damaging to multiple consumers, they are still carefully investigating and evaluating other possible causes before deciding whether the product actually caused the medical problem. The FDA continues to caution consumers that products marketed as “energy shots” or “energy drinks” are not alternatives to rest or sleep, and to consult your health care provider before taking any kind of energy supplement.</p>
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					<div class="title"><a href="http://classlawblog.com/clearinghouse-data-repositories-bicker-over-new-dodd-frank-regulation/">Clearinghouse, Data-Repositories Bicker Over New Dodd-Frank Regulation</a></div>
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				<p>It’s one thing to file a lawsuit against the CFTC over the creation of new swap data repositories. But it’s a whole other thing to file against the CFTC over the creation of new swap data repositories while at the same time petitioning the CFTC to let you become one. The DTCC (Depository Trust & Clearing Corp.) was so annoyed with CME Group, Inc. for taking the above actions, that they took action themselves, filing this week to enter into CME’s case against the CFTC as a party on the defense.</p>
<p>In its letter to the CFTC, DTCC Counsel Larry E. Thompson accused CME of threatening to “dismantle and disrupt the entire regulatory regime statutorily mandated by the Dodd- Frank Act,” simply to protect its own interests as a “derivatives clearing organization.” To DTCC’s credit, Thompson is partially right. By CME’s own admission, they do want to disrupt the regulatory regime of Dodd-Frank; they see no point in spending the time and money necessary to comply with new transparency laws when they are already in perfect compliance with the old ones. According to CME, the new regulations would be completely redundant; why duplicate the very data they already compile and send to the CFTC for another agency whose sole purpose is to collect data…and forward it the CFTC?</p>
<p>Moreover, says CME, the CFTC already has enough data on swaps to draw substantive conclusions about the legality of the swaps derivatives market; creating a whole separate agency simply for the purpose of compiling non-public swaps information is just a back-door attempt for the CFTC to cash in on lucrative market data in direct violation of swappers privacy rights.</p>
<p>Luckily, in the event that the Dodd-Frank provisions are not overturned, CME can still fall back on their CFTC petition to become an acting swaps repository themselves; after all, why use a middle man for anything when you can simply hand deliver?</p>
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					<div class="title"><a href="http://classlawblog.com/comcast-and-amgen-try-to-limit-class-actions-through-supreme-court/">Comcast and Amgen Try to Limit Class Actions through Supreme Court</a></div>
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				<p>Both Comcast Corp. and biotech company Amgen Inc. recently appeared before the Supreme Court in two separate cases in an effort to shut down class action lawsuits brought on by consumers against the two businesses. The court heard arguments in appeals from both companies, but the justices appeared divided over how to rule and proceed.</p>
<p>Last year, the Supreme Court increased restrictions on filing a class action case when it sided with Wal-Mart against female employees who complained of sex discrimination. The Court stated that the class was simply too big to wrap into one lawsuit.</p>
<p>Amgen is fighting securities fraud claims that misstatements over two of its drugs used to treat anemia artificially inflated its stock price. Comcast is facing a lawsuit from customers who say the company’s monopoly in parts of thePhiladelphia area allowed it to raise prices unfairly.</p>
<p> In terms of Amgen Inc., the issue the Supreme Court faces is whether Amgen’s claims about the safety and effectiveness of the drugs Aranesp and Epogen affected the stock price. In the Comcast case, the justices faced the issue of whether to require plaintiffs to prove more of their case earlier in the process. The Comcast subscribers argue that doing so would lead to even more limits on class actions.</p>
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				<p><a href="http://Saferproducts.gov">Saferproducts.gov</a> is a newly created, federally mandated online database that is run by the CSPC. A highly anticipated brainchild of the CPSIA (Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act), <a href="http://saferproducts.gov">saferproducts.gov</a> was designed to streamline and solidify the role of government in promoting a heightened level of consumer safety. Since its birth in March of 2012, the website has successfully collected, organized, and published 11,000 consumer reports on various manufacturers without incident. However, this week they were the recipient of a significant and highly embarrassing judicial slap down.</p>
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<p>In his <a href="http://docs.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/maryland/mddce/8:2011cv02958/195139/74/0.pdf?ts=1350989299">recently released opinion of <em>Company Doe v. Inez Tenenbaum et al.</em></a>, Judge Alexander Williams ruled that <a href="http://saferproducts.gov">saferproducts.gov</a> was not only “materially misleading,” in its handling of their report on the mystery plaintiff, but “arbitrary and capricious.”</p>
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<p>The trouble started earlier this year when the CSPC received a report on one of Company Doe’s products that called the safety of the product into serious question.  Company Doe was made aware of said report, as is required by <a href="http://saferproducts.gov">saferproducts.gov</a> policy, and given the chance to contest it, which they did. They even went so far as to provide medical evidence challenging the legitimacy of the report; all for naught. The report was published (revised on four separate occasions but still published) on the website for all inquiring consumers to see.</p>
<p>Which, to be fair, was exactly what it was made for. According to <a href="http://www.safetyresearch.net/2012/10/24/whatever-happened-to-company-doe/">an article by Safety Research and Strategies Inc.</a>, the CSPC database was explicitly designed to maintain the integrity of consumer concerns; it was the only entity exempt from Section 6B of the CPSIA, which gave manufacturers veto power over the negative content the CSPC could put out about them. In fact, before publishing any information the CSPC had to obtain the manufacturer’s prior approval.</p>
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<p>But <a href="http://saferproducts.gov">saferproducts.gov</a> is supposed to work differently. Their terms and conditions give manufacturers the opportunity to rebut potentially damaging information; if that information is provided, and proves a report wrong in part or sum, the report is not supposed to be posted.</p>
<p>Despite multiple appeals from consumer advocacy groups to publish Company Doe’s identity, Judge Williams left the company’s information and identifying details under seal. Citing Company Doe’s First Amendment right to a government redress of its grievances, Williams remained firm in his statement that revealing the Company’s identity would violate “fundamental notions of fairness.” Public Citizen, for their part, stated that the court’s decision to close the lid on the details of the case was a violation of the First Amendment rights of consumers. The public, said Public Citizen Attorney Scott Michelman, has a “strong right to learn who is involved” as well as the “factual basis” for the court’s decision.</p>
<p><a href="http://Saferproducts.gov">Saferproducts.gov</a>, in accordance with the ruling, took down the report. On their website is a pledge of solidarity to keep up their cause, or federally mandated duty, and a promise to keep providing information to better educate and protect consumers; with a publishing average of roughly forty five reports a day, it shouldn’t be too hard to proceed with caution.</p>
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