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What is the California Lemon Law?

Consumers who purchase a defective product can often feel helpless when trying to deal with the manufacturer. Without law experience it is difficult to fight the manufacturers lawyers. They deal with these types of situations all the time. In an attempt to give the consumer more protection, the United States federal government enacted the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act (1975). While the act was a step in the right direction, its scope was quite broad, ...

Updated 04-13-2012 at 08:50 AM by Delsack & Associates

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Republican Lamar Smith of Texas introduced the Stop Online Privacy Act to the House of Representatives in October 2011. On the surface, the bill targets foreign sites outside the jurisdiction of the United States that engage in copyright infringement. The main mechanism SOPA uses is preventing websites in the United States from interacting with these foreign sites. The bill was controversial from the moment it was introduced, with media and internet entities immediately taking opposing sides. ...

Sertraline is made by Pfizer and basically, the generic name for Zoloft. It’s part of a very popular class of anti-depressants called SSRIs (or selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors). To give you an idea of the footprint of this drug, Zoloft alone had a little less than 30 million users 5 years ago. Because of its popularity, a lot of independent research has been conducted in relation to its safety and some of the findings have been shocking.

In a myriad of studies, the use ...

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If you are falling behind your monthly debt payments, a debt collectormay contact you to collect the debt on behalf of your creditor. Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), enforced by the nation’ consumer protection agency The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), prohibits debtcollectors from using unfair, abusive, or deceptive practices while collecting the debt from you.

To the FDCPA, a debt collector can be anybody who regularly collects debt. It may be a collection agency, a ...

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If you are missing to make your debt payments and feeling apprehensive that your lenders might sell the debts to a collection agency, then you do have reasons to worry. The collection agency doesn’t have the power to put you behind the bars, but they can certainly drive you crazy by repeated phone calls, millions of mails and billions of e-mails. Debt collectors often bend or break the rules of collecting debt and sometimes stoop to such an extent that collection efforts turn into sheer harassment. ...

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