Consumer Law & Policy Blog

Percentage of Americans without health insurance is dropping dramatically

Here.

Third Circuit denies en banc rehearing request in Carrera class-action "ascertainability" appeal

With four judges dissenting from en banc rehearing and the three original panel members explaining why they think they were right the first time around. Read today's opinions here. The dissenters, in an opinion written by Judge Thomas Ambro, say that the federal rules committee should take up the issues raised by the panel's decision.

For our previous discussions of Carrera, go here, here, here, and here.

Standing up for online privacy (finally), major tech companies to notify users of planned government snooping

Apple, Google, Microsoft and Facebook are going to start telling us when the government wants our online data. The government, predictably, isn't happy. The Washington Post has the story.

Important decision on federal rule amendments favors the "little guy" versus corporations

Many people's eyes probably start to glaze over at the mention of amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. But a recent action by the federal Advisory Committee on Civil Rules bears mentioning, and not just for civil procedure nerds.

Stark Gender Disparities in Income Shown in Law Firm Survey

That's the title of this article by Katelyn Polantz. The survey says that big private law firms have the greatest disparities, and with smaller private firms have smaller disparities, with men making more than women in both settings. But there's this:

Public interest law and solo ­practices were the only job settings where the median income for women, at $90,000 in public interest and $65,000 in solo, outpaced men, at $70,000 and $60,000, respectively.

So, it's not just that public-interest lawyers have way more fun.