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WOMEN'S POLICY COSTS, COVERAGE WOULD BE AFFECTED Without clear standards, the law in California isn't strong enough to halt the practice of…
Sep 28, 2009Message to fence-sitters in Washington: A major national poll today from CBS and the New York Times finds that 65% of Americans…
Sep 25, 2009$125 Million Pact 'Raises Significant Issues' "Clearly, voices such as ours had an impact on Judge Chin," says John Simpson, of the…
Sep 25, 2009A New York judge has put Google's vision of creating the world's biggest digital library on hold. Microsoft, Amazon and Yahoo have…
Sep 25, 2009Outrageous insurance company practices have been in the spotlight all year (like the recent revelation that 'history of domestic violence is a…
Sep 25, 2009Californians usually pay more for gasoline than do other Americans. But not this much more. A gallon of regular now costs, on…
Sep 24, 2009The healthcare bills in Congress do not call for limits on prices, raising fears that costs will continue to grow. WASHINGTON, D.C.…
Sep 24, 2009California consumers have taken DirecTV to court, saying the El Segundo-based satellite television company's "early cancellation penalty" unlawfully removes funds from customer…
Sep 24, 2009John M. Simpson, a consumer advocate with Consumer Watchdog who testified about the deal before the House Judiciary Committee, said any agreement…
Sep 24, 2009No wonder Congress wasn't on the ball about the whole prisoner-torture thing. I watch a lot of Congressional hearings, but today's Senate…
Sep 24, 2009The Author's Guild and Association of American Publishers in the Google Book Search settlement asked District Court Judge Denny Chin to postpone…
Sep 23, 2009Two groups ask a federal judge for more time to address new issues in a settlement covering the firm's digital library project.…
Sep 23, 2009Consumer Watchdog, a nonpartisan, nonprofit consumer advocacy group that has asked the court to reject the settlement, said in a statement that…
Sep 23, 2009Google Inc. and groups of authors and publishers are working to modify a $125 million settlement to create a digital library following…
Sep 23, 2009A lot of the public debate over the latest health reform proposal, in the Senate Finance Committee, is just noise--political gotcha statements…
Sep 22, 2009Consumer Watchdog Says Copyright Issues For Congress, Not Closed-Door Deals SANTA M0NICA, CA —Publisher and author associations sought today to cancel a…
Sep 22, 2009The impact of the proposed merger of Microsoft and Yahoo's search platforms raises "significant antitrust concerns" that include the impact on the…
Sep 22, 2009WOODLAND HILLS, CA -- Activists and customers protested Tuesday at Anthem Blue Cross offices in Woodland Hills and nationwide to criticize the…
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