Briefs Authored by Public Good

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• Does California’s “ability to benefit” law, protecting students from being tricked into going into debt to pay for useless vocational training, violate the schools’ and prospective students’ First Amendment rights to academic freedom?
  • Pacific Coast Horseshoeing School, Inc. v. Grafilo (U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit)
• Did FTC interpretation that federal prohibition on telemarketing robocalls applies to telemarketing calls using soundboard technology comport with the requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act and the First Amendment?
  • Soundboard Association v. FTC (U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit)
• Telecommunications companies do not get a free pass from regulation by the FTC simply because part of their business involves ‘common carrier’ operations that are not subject to FTC regulation.
  • FTC v. AT&T Mobility, LLC (U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit)
• The California Insurance Commissioner has the authority to issue a rule specifying that a particular practice is “misleading.”
  • Ass’n of California Insurance Cos. v. Jones (California Supreme Court)
• California Supreme Court affirms that consumers who have been sold falsely labeled goods are covered by California’s core consumer protection laws.
  • Kwikset Corp. v. Superior Court (California Supreme Court)
• United States Supreme Court upholds government’s ability to require that businesses disclose factual information to consumers.
  • Milavetz, Fallop & Milavetz, P.A. v. United States (U.S. Supreme Court)

Briefs Joined By Public Good

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• May the Department of Education lawfully undo protections for vocational students without complying with the rulemaking requirements of the Administrative Procedure Act?
  • Maryland v. U.S. Dept. of Education (U.S. District Court, District of Columbia)
• Courts uphold “gainful employment rule” protecting low-income students at predatory for-profit career programs that leave students in debt they cannot repay.
  • Association of Private Sector Colleges Universities v. Duncan; Association of Proprietary Colleges v. Duncan (U.S. Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit; U.S. District Court, Southern District, New York)
• United States Supreme Court rules that California’s guarantees of legal access for defrauded consumers are pre-empted by federal law.
  • AT&T Mobility LLC v. Concepcion (U.S. Supreme Court)
• California Supreme Court Upholds Patient Privacy Protections.
  • Brown v. Mortensen (California Supreme Court)
• Should companies that improperly charge sales tax be immune from lawsuits seeking to recover the charges?
  • Loeffler v. Target, Inc. (California Supreme Court)
• United States Supreme Court limits victims’ ability to band together against large companies that have violated the law.
  • Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. AnimalFeeds Int’l Corp. (U.S. Supreme Court)