Consumers in the United States

Main Topics of Consumer Issues

This entry in the American Encyclopedia has been organized to address the following topics, among others:

• Consumer Issues : Advertising
• Consumer Issues : Bankruptcy
• Consumer Issues : Contracts
• Consumer Issues : Credit/Truth-in Lending
• Consumer Issues : Deceptive Trade Practices
• Consumer Issues : Defective Products
• Consumer Issues : Federal Trade Commission/Regulation
• Consumer Issues : Mail-Order Purchases/Telemarketing
• Consumer Issues : Product Safety and Consumer Protection
• Consumer Issues : Purchases and Returns
• Consumer Issues : Recalls by Manufacturers
• Consumer Issues : Warranties

Consumers Privacy

The Obama Administration introduced a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights. Working with the private sector and advocacy groups, it identified some basic principles to both protect personal privacy and ensure that industry can keep innovating. The Obama Administration believes that consumers have the right to decide what personal data companies collect from them and how companies use that data, that information; the right to know that your personal information collected for one purpose can’t then be misused by a company for a different purpose; the right to have the consumer information stored securely by companies that are accountable for its use. The Obama Administration believes that there ought to be some basic baseline protections across industries.

Consumers in the Context of Forum Selection Clauses

Forum Selection Clauses Involving Consumers and Insureds in International Civil Litigation

Analysis of the Forum Selection Clauses Involving Consumers and Insureds in relation with the International Forum Selection Agreement.

Finding the law: Consumers in the U.S. Code

A collection of general and permanent laws relating to consumers, passed by the United States Congress, are organized by subject matter arrangements in the United States Code (U.S.C.; this label examines consumers topics), to make them easy to use (usually, organized by legal areas into Titles, Chapters and Sections). The platform provides introductory material to the U.S. Code, and cross references to case law. View the U.S. Code’s table of contents here.

Resources

See Also

• Choice of Forum Provision
• Choice of Forum Clause Definition
• Choice of Forum Clause Sample
• Forum Selection
• Choice of Law

Further Reading

• Information about Consumers in the Gale Encyclopedia of American Law.