Posted by Da’Naysia Aarons. In an article called “Forced Arbitration,” Gordon Gibb, describes how citizens in the United States are taken advantage of by popular rich companies, such as, Time Warner Cable, T-Mobile, Wells Fargo and several others. Many consumers who buy products from these companies do not realize that they are facing forced arbitration. Companies …
Author Archives: blogbusinesslaw
Dewey & LeBoeuf’s Fraud
Posted by Bridget Uribe. During the month of March of 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged three executives: Chairman Steven Davis, Executive Director Stephen DiCarmine, and Chief Financial Officer Joel Sanders of Dewey & LeBoeuf, the international law firm, with facilitating a $150 million fraudulent bond offerings. The SEC alleged that the three …
Georgia Archives – Blog Business Law – a resource for business law students
Posted by Ismail Surakat. This is a case between Southern District of Georgia and Vania Lee Allen, a native of Jamaica, who committed a fraud and falsely impersonating a United Sates FBI special agent in connection with an international lottery fraud arrangement based in Jamaica. According to the indictment, 30-year-old Vania Lee Allen was charged for …
Continue reading “Georgia Archives – Blog Business Law – a resource for business law students”
Prevalence of Health Care Fraud
Posted by Sabrina Gilliam Formey. Health care fraud may be more extensive than fraud in other industries because deception branches from an assorted group of players; those players being insurance companies, pharmacists, providers, suppliers, health care vendors, health care provider employees, physicians, specialists, and patients. To compound the problem, some of those players are not only …
Wells Fargo Accused of Predatory Lending in Chicago Area
Posted by Tiffany Zapata. Wells Fargo is the most recent bank to get caught in the act of predatory lending. The bank was accused in court filings of targeting minorities, such as black and Latino borrowers, for more costly home loans in comparison to whites. The acts took place in Cook County, Illinois, with a …
Continue reading “Wells Fargo Accused of Predatory Lending in Chicago Area”
Bad “Yelp” Reviews Should be Protected by the First Amendment
Posted by Jen Suarez. To what extent is defamation? From my last blog article, I defined defamation as “malicious and damaging misrepresentation,” where an organization was falsely accused of rape. However, can anyone play to the “defamation card” if they don’t like what other’s have to say? For example, Yelp.com is a website where consumers …
Continue reading “Bad “Yelp” Reviews Should be Protected by the First Amendment”
NY Fed Whistleblower Could Prompt Congressional Investigation
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York has come under fire recently with the release of secret tapes supposedly of regulators planning to “go soft” on Goldman Sachs. Carmen Segarra, a former employee who was assigned to Goldman, claims in a lawsuit that she was under pressure by her superiors to overlook certain findings she made concerning the …
Continue reading “NY Fed Whistleblower Could Prompt Congressional Investigation”
FDA Archives – Blog Business Law – a resource for business law students
Posted by Claudine Rosca. Endo International PLC is a generics and pharmaceutical company that delivers medicines to patients in the fields of urology, men’s health, etc. Despite their professionalism, their products allegedly were defective resulting in liability. Product liability is the responsibility that a manufacturer incurs because they sell or create a faulty product. In …
Continue reading “FDA Archives – Blog Business Law – a resource for business law students”
Forced Arbitration
Posted by Da’Naysia Aarons. In an article called “Forced Arbitration,” Gordon Gibb, describes how citizens in the United States are taken advantage of by popular rich companies, such as, Time Warner Cable, T-Mobile, Wells Fargo and several others. Many consumers who buy products from these companies do not realize that they are facing forced arbitration. Companies …
Privacy and Surveillance Laws
Research proposal posted by Brian Kane. In the digital age, the rights and laws regarding privacy are being contested now more than ever. Today personal privacy, both digital and physical, is being discussed. One of the earliest examples of privacy laws in the United States is the 4th amendment. Under this amendment gives “the right …