Consumer Law

Cases and Materials on Consumer Law (American Casebook)

The Third Edition has been completely updated to include current and emerging issues in Consumer Law. The text covers a range of topics, including advertising and marketing, consumer credit regulation, consumer privacy, payment systems, warranty law, debt collection, remedies and predatory lending (a capstone chapter). This text contains a balance of cases, problems (updated to reflect modern situations) and notes (discussion questions and references to the latest consumer protection scholarship), allowing the professor the maximum flexibility in choice of topics, and pedagogical methods. A complete teacher's manual and a new statutory supplement are also available.

The American Bar Association Guide to Credit and Bankruptcy: Everything You Need to Know About the Law, Your Rights, and Credit, Debt, and Bankruptcy

The average credit card debt per household is $7,500, and more than 1.6 million Americans file for bankruptcy each year. The American Bar Association Guide to Credit & Bankruptcy answers the questions people commonly ask lawyers about getting, keeping, and repairing credit.

• Includes major new requirements of the bankruptcy reform bill, in effect October 2005
• Topics include credit card debt, bankruptcy, and other forms of debt such as home mortgages, auto loans, and e-loans.

Selected Consumer Statutes, 2007 ed. (Academic Statutes)

Selected Consumer Statutes

Consumer Transactions (University Casebook)

The coursebook Geenfield's Consumer Transactions, Third Edition, is designed for a law school level course. It examines problems in the formation of consumer transactions, the actual substance of the deal, and remedies. The text makes frequent use of problems as a teaching device. One volume.

The People Vs. Big Tobacco: How the States Took on the Cigarette Giants

After nimbly sidestepping any and all lawsuits for more than four decades, the tobacco industry received what could prove to be a mortal blow when Merrell Williams, a Louisville paralegal, stole thousands of pages of confidential documents from the law firm where he worked and handed them over to Michael Moore, the attorney general of Mississippi. These confidential documents proved that the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, a client of the firm, knew the dangers associated with smoking cigarettes, and that they had lied repeatedly to the public about the risks. Once these documents were released via the Internet and numerous anonymous mailings, the blood was in the water. A coalition of 65 top American trial lawyers attacked the tobacco industry from one side, while Moore and 39 other states' attorneys general pounced from the other, eventually resulting in a $368 billion settlement--the largest in American history. The People Vs. Big Tobacco: How the States Took on the Cigarette Giants is a blow-by-blow account of how the "Mother of All Lawsuits" was eventually settled, who the major players were, and what the settlement actually means for the future of Big Tobacco. The lawsuit settlement has since been railed by many health organizations and policymakers as a sellout, but there is no doubt that the tobacco industry has been permanently altered. Though more big-league legal wrangling is sure to come, The People Vs. Big Tobacco is an excellent analysis of the battle as it currently stands.

Memphis, Tennessee, 1993. Attorney Michael Lewis looks into the emaciated face of his friend, a lifelong smoker dying of cancer, and resolves that something has to change -- Big Tobacco must be held accountable for the human and financial wreckage their products leave behind.

Four years later, Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore stands at his microphone in the ballroom of the ANA Hotel in Washington, DC, and announces to the nation that Big Tobacco has just conceded the most gigantic legal settlement in the history of the world -- $368.5 billion. As Moore outlines the points of the plan, it is clear that America's relationship with tobacco is about to be transformed forever. Sweeping changes in the regulation and marketing of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco are about to take place; the companies will pay heavily for their lies, denials, and evasions. Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man will never again woo another teenager...

For the first time, the facts behind the scorching of Big Tobacco are woven into a single investigative narrative. Written in the fast-paced, riveting style of A Civil Action by a reporting team positioned -- from the beginning -- inside the frame with key players from all sides of the legal battleground, The People vs. Big Tobacco lets readers become insiders themselves in one of the most amazing social and financial dramas of our century.

Surviving an IRS Tax Audit

Worried about escaping an audit intact? Then you need Surviving an IRS Tax Audit.

This Nolo book explains what to say, what to do, even what to wear, so that a visit from the auditor doesn't turn into a disaster.

With material pulled directly from IRS training manuals, the book exposes the tricks of the auditor's trade. It provides you with a profile of People Most Likely To Be Audited (small business owners and contractors, step carefully!) and discusses whether or not the IRS can examine your "lifestyle" during an audit, rather than stick to the tax return.

The book also suggests three steps to take when an unreasonable auditor goes too far.

Nearly 50 percent of all taxpayers will be audited during their lifetime. This book levels the playing field, giving you the information you need to act and speak like a tax pro.

Emanuel Law Outlines: Secured Transactions

The most trusted name in law school outlines, Emanuel Law Outlines support your class preparation, provide reference for your outline creation, and supply a comprehensive breakdown of topic matter for your entire study process. Created by Steven Emanuel, these course outlines have been relied on by generations of law students. Each title includes both capsule and detailed versions of the critical issues and key topics you must know to master the course. Also included are exam questions with model answers, an alphabetical list of cases, and a cross-reference table of cases for all of the leading casebooks.

Bring on Goliath: Lemon Law Justice in America

All of us face the inevitable car buying experience. And each of us silently prays that our vehicle will be free of problems — that we do not wind up with the proverbial LEMON.

Lemons have existed since cars started rolling off assembly lines 100 years ago. Although state and federal consumer protection laws have been enacted, the cunning auto industry has found ways to circumvent its responsibilities. Motivated by profit, it has set up obstacles to thwart lemon owners from seeking resolution — all for the sake of frustrating buyers to either go away or accept something far less than owed.

"Bring on Goliath" is Attorney Vince Megna's exposé of the errant auto industry, the "Giant," as he calls it. For nearly 14 years, he has successfully fought this Giant, representing car buyers from all walks of life. Armed with laws, his most powerful weapon turns out to be his undying determination to fight for justice. Megna is a David crusading against one of the largest Goliaths ever. His winning record will make you stand and cheer. Gripping, informative, revealing and at times, laugh-out-loud funny.

The Complete Legal Guide to Senior Care (Legal Survival Guides)

Your Guide to Senior Planning

The Complete Legal Guide to Senior Care contains all the information you need to make the right decisions for the seniors you care about and for yourself.
Written by an attorney who practiced in estate planning, this book explains how to manage residential, financial and medical matters as well as the legal issues that accompany them. In addition, it addresses how to help seniors cope with the emotions that accompany aging and how to discuss with them the delicate issues that aging brings.

Checklists, tips and evaluation forms are included to help you organize your thoughts and keep track of paperwork. These include tips for talking with doctors, checklists for evaluating the quality of care provided by nursing homes and other residential options and tips on how to handle appeals for Medicare or Medicaid.

This reference also provides extensive appendices that contain organizations, contact information, specific books and websites that refer you to even more helpful information and support.

This book will guide you in:
--Arranging wills, living wills, powers of attorney and estate planning
--Evaluating and selecting assisted living residences, continuing care retirement communities, nursing homes and other options
--Considering long-term care
insurance, Medigap coverage
and reverse mortgages
--Determining the level of care required
--Managing a senior’s finances
--Working with other family
members to coordinate care
--Balancing your life as a caregiver
--Obtaining hospice care

Homeowner's Rights: A Legal Guide to Your Neighborhood (Legal Survival Guides)

Trying to keep things friendly with your neighbors while still enjoying your home?
Know your rights

Becoming a homeowner can be an exhilarating and gratifying experience-however, it includes much responsibility. In clear, understandable language, Homeowner's Rights provides detailed information on a variety of legal situations that can arise between neighbors.

Homeowner's Rights contains informative descriptions of previously decided disputes and their legal outcomes, including:

--One neighbor's daughter practices the piano each afternoon while another needs to sleep during the day.
--A neighbor runs an animal hospital out of his home despite the area being clearly residential only.
--A couple buys a condominium because the view is beautiful, only to have a neighbor build a wall that blocks that view.

Entertaining and informative cases help guide you through the diverse situations that can result from homeowner conflicts. Homeowner's Rights is the resource for determining legal rights and options for every homeowner.

Homeowner's Rights provides valuable information concerning:
--Unreasonable noise
--Unruly animals
--Boundary disputes
--Trespassing and privacy
--Complicated zoning ordinances
--Natural resource and environmental disputes
--Abusive neighbors
--Resolving disputes in and out of court