Unfair and deceptive acts and practices /
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| Author / Creator: | Carter, Carolyn L. |
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| Edition: | 7th ed. |
| Imprint: | Boston, MA : National Consumer Law Center, c2008-c2011. |
| Description: | xlvii, 1216 p. ; 28 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The consumer credit and sales legal practice series Consumer credit and sales legal practices series. |
| Subject: | Competition, Unfair -- United States -- States. Competition, Unfair -- United States. Competition, Unfair. Competition, Unfair -- U.S. states. United States. |
| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8368442 |
Table of Contents:
- First considerations
- UDAP scope
- Demonstrating that a practice is a UDAP violation
- The meaning of deception, unfairness, and unconscionability
- General sales and performance practices
- Credit and collections
- Motor vehicle sales, rentals, and repair
- Home and home-related transactions
- Door-to-door sales, telemarketing, junk faxes, spam, other sales approaches
- Services, insurance, opportunity schemes, other transactions
- Liability of various parties
- Litigating UDAP cases
- Private UDAP remedies
- Other private remedies
- State agency enforcement
- Appendix[es]. A. Statute-by-staute analysis of state UDAP statutes ; B. Selected Federal Trade Commission rules ; C. Federal and state RICO statutes ; D. Federal telemarketing statutes and regulations ; E. State telemarketing and state "900-number" statutes summarized ; F. Useful websites.
