On May 17, 2023, San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu announced Walgreens agreed to pay the People of San Francisco $230 million for its role…
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Category: Consumer Protection - General
PCBs in Schools – Old Fluorescent Light Fixtures
In a previous blog post PCBs and health concerns in schools, I described how caulking and older overhead fluorescent lighting are the two leading…
Category: Consumer Protection - General
PCBs and Health Concerns: Toxic Chemicals in Schools — Especially Older Ones
Many school districts face a toxic chemical threat within their aging school buildings. Approximately half of the public buildings constructed between 1950 and 1978…
Category: Consumer Protection - General
Auto Loans and Usury Laws: Protecting Consumers from Excessively High Interest Rates
UPDATE 7-30-2015: Attorneys in W&L's Environmental and Consumer Protection Unit filed a class action lawsuit against Chrysler Capital for violating New York's usury statute.…
Category: Environmental
Train Derailment and Devastation: Are Federal Regulations Adequate to Prevent Harm?
Train Derailments Involve Crude Oil and Explosive Fires Less than a week before the deadly Amtrak passenger train derailment in May 2015, six tank…
Category: Environmental
Nuisance Claims and Damages in Groundwater Contamination Cases
In many pollution cases, local residents face water pollution that has not yet reached their residential drinking water wells. These residents have nonetheless been…