Wallrich v. Samsung Electronics America, Inc.
Seventh Circuit Deals Blow to Mass Arbitration Strategy
Vol. 138 No. 6
Consumer Law
Data Privacy in Bankruptcy: The Consumer Privacy Ombudsman
Vol. 138 No. 5
Celsius Network, a cryptocurrency platform and lender, filed for bankruptcy in 2022. Through its course of business, Celsius had acquired the financial data of about 600,000 customers that it planned to include in a bankruptcy asset sale.
Who’s Afraid of Bankruptcy
Vol. 138 No. 5
Who’s afraid of a bankruptcy filing? Perhaps we all should be given the increasingly outsized role that bankruptcy law plays in our market society. Handling more cases per year than any other category of federal court, bankruptcy courts attend to the disposition of debts related to both mundane contractual relationships and pressing social issues.
Waste, Property, and Useless Things
Vol. 138 No. 5
How should the law respond to intentionally useless objects that are constructed from scarce materials and thrust into an overcrowded world? Approximately sixty million tons of electronic waste, or “e-waste” — for example, discarded iPhones, refrigerators, desktop computers — is produced each year.
H.B. 3, 2024 Leg., Reg. Sess. (Fla. 2024)
Florida Passes Law Unconstitutionally Restricting Minors' Access to Content on Social Media.
Vol. 138 No. 4
The Democratic (Il)legitimacy of Assembly-Line Litigation
Introduction Millions of debt cases are filed in the civil courts every year. In debt actions, asymmetrical representation is the norm, with the plaintiff...
Decreasing Supply to the Assembly Line of Debt Collection Litigation
Introduction Professor Daniel Wilf-Townsend’s Assembly-Line Plaintiffs shines an empirical light on state courts and quantifies a world where “debt cases comprise[] the preponderant majority...
Assembly-Line Plaintiffs
Vol. 135 No. 7
Around the country, state courts are being flooded with the claims of massive repeat filers. These large corporate plaintiffs leverage economies of scale to...
What is the Law’s Role in a Recession?
Vol. 135 No. 5
In March 2020, the world faced not only a public health emergency but also one of the most profound shocks to the global economy...
TransUnion v. Ramirez
Vol. 135 No. 1
To bring a lawsuit in federal court, a plaintiff must have Article III standing. While commentators perceived federal courts as having generally made it...