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作者：Rotman, Robin M.; Gossett, Chloe J.; Goldman, Hope D.
作者单位：University of Missouri System; University of Missouri Columbia; Georgetown University
摘要：Fraudulent and deceptive environmental claims in marketing (sometimes called greenwashing') are a persistent problem in the United States, despite nearly thirty years of efforts by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to prevent it. This Essay focuses on a recent trend in greenwashing-fraudulent organic claims for nonagricultural products, such as home goods and personal care products. We offer three recommendations. First, we suggest ways that the FTC can strengthen its oversight of organic cla...
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作者：Verkuil, Paul R.
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作者：Hearey, Clement
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作者：Sauter, Katherine
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作者：Schowengerdt, Robyn C.
作者单位：American University
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作者：Platt, Alexander, I
作者单位：Harvard University; University of Kansas
摘要：Companies targeted by SEC enforcement actions often face parallel private class actions under the federal securities laws based on the same underlying conduct. But when the SEC selects enforcement targets, negotiates settlements, and assesses its own performance, it is unclear whether or how the agency considers this potential piggybacking effect. Although the agency's enforcement activities can have significant impacts on the flow of private litigation, the agency denies that it accounts for ...
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作者：Belanger, Andrea M.
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作者：Marks, Mason M.
作者单位：Gonzaga University; Harvard University
摘要：The COVID-19 pandemic is producing widespread loss of life, unemployment, and social isolation that is triggering a mental health crisis. Experts warn there could be record levels of depression, suicide, and substance use disorders. The US. healthcare system is not prepared. It lacks the resources to provide prolonged psychotherapy at scale, and existing drug treatments are ineffective in about half the people who try them. Amid worsening mental health-related morbidity and mortality, the expe...
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作者：Wadhia, Shoba Sivaprasad
作者单位：Pennsylvania Commonwealth System of Higher Education (PCSHE); Pennsylvania State University; Pennsylvania State University - University Park
摘要：Darkside Discretion refers to a situation where the noncitizen satisfies the statutory criteria set by Congress to be eligible for remedy, but in the end, the adjudicator invokes discretion as the reason the noncitizen loses, resulting in tangible harms. Imagine a woman who arrived in the United States six months ago who meets her burden of proving she is a refugee based on a fear of persecution in the form of severe physical harm or torture by the government in her home country because of her...
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作者：Naimon, Jeffrey P.; Leonhardt, Sasha; Meehan, Sarah B.
摘要：With an estimated one in four borrowers struggling to repay their federal student loans or already in default, the federal student lending program is on the precipice of collapse. Rates of delinquency and default are continuing to rise due to the fractured statutory and regulatory framework enacted by the federal government. Although critics are quick to blame federal student loan servicers for the failings inherent within the federal student loan program, such misplaced blame obfuscates the t...
