USA Law

Tag: Consumer affairs

  • Cost of Living

    Cost of Living in the United States Legal Materials Statistics on the cost of living in various U.S. cities are compiled and published by the DOL’s Bureau of Labor Statistics as the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis as the Personal […]

  • Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act

    Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act in the United States From the USPTO: On November 29, 1999, President Clinton signed into law the Anticybersquatting Consumer Protection Act (ACPA). Generally, the ACPA is intended to protect the public from acts of Internet “cybersquatting,” a […]

  • Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court

    Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in the United States The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was created by section 103(a) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1803(a)). It was originally comprised of seven district judges from seven circuits named by […]

  • Online Poker

    Online Poker in the United States Online Poker: Gambling on Smartphones by Thomas Peele. He is an investigative reporter for the Bay Area News Group. (2013) With online poker now legal in Nevada, state lawmakers are playing catch-up in the race to regulate — and tax — gambling on […]

  • Class Settlement

    Class Settlement in the United States Class Settlement and Action Lawsuit By Pamela A. MacLean. She is a freelance writer based in the Bay Area, and has reported on state and federal courts for 25 years. The class settlement sounded well and good. After years of pretrial sparring, Dell […]

  • Lawyer Fees

    Lawyer Fees in United States Practical Information Compensation for the legal services rendered to clients. The fees that a lawyer charges usually depend on a number of factors. When fixing fees, the lawyer considers the amount of money involved in the controversy, the time spent, the […]

  • Spam Laws

    Spam Laws in the United States The following is the history of Dan Balsam, a San Francisco sole practitioner who makes his living by suing the people who bombard him with deceptive unsolicited emails–a.k.a. spam. His is a curious practice, and some say he’s gaming the system. But McNichol […]