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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A Congressional committee will review the pros and cons of a class-action settlement that would give Google Inc. the…
Sep 10, 2009Others witnesses are likely to cast a more skeptical eye on the agreement, including John Simpson of Consumer Watchdog, a nonprofit that…
Sep 10, 2009The sex scandal du jour--California state Senator Mike Duvall, a "family-values conservative," boasting into an open mike during a hearing about his spanking,…
Sep 9, 2009Consumer Watchdog today demanded that CBS Outdoors restore our "Don't Trust Mercury Insurance" billboard, pulled down, mid-contract, at Mercury Insurance's request.
Sep 9, 2009Consumer advocacy group Consumer Watchdog warned that "if the settlement were approved, it would give Google a default monopoly to books for…
Sep 9, 2009The Senate finance panel chief would create cooperatives as an alternative to the public option. A leading consumer group also took aim…
Sep 9, 2009SANTA MONICA, CA -- Nonprofit consumer advocacy organization, Consumer Watchdog, has written California Attorney General Jerry Brown to request an investigation into…
Sep 9, 2009Washington, D.C. -- President Obama should not make innocent Americans injured by cost-cutting hospitals and negligent doctors a political sacrifice in his…
Sep 9, 2009A billboard critical of Mercury Insurance is taken down after the firm complains. But a vodka ad suggestive of part of the…
Sep 9, 2009The Google Book Search Settlement has taken yet another twist: in a last minute announcement, the House Judiciary Committee today posted notice…
Sep 9, 2009The latest proposal in the Washington health reform debate protects employers from costs, delivers millions of new customers to the insurance industry…
Sep 9, 2009A group of 10 consumer advocacy groups, including the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, Consumers Union and the Consumer Federation of America,…
Sep 8, 2009A "framework plan" released today by the so-called "Group of Six" Senators negotiating a health reform bill headed by Senator Max Baucus...
Sep 8, 2009The National Writers Union and Consumer Watchdog were among those to file briefs urging rejection as the Google Book Search Settlement deadline…
Sep 8, 2009Judy Dugan of the Santa Monica-based advocacy group Consumer Watchdog said one of the primary reasons for the HMO system's dysfunction is…
Sep 8, 2009Brief Argues Books Settlement Violates Both U.S. And International Copyright Law, Is Anticompetitive WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Consumer Watchdog today filed a brief…
Sep 8, 2009Washington, D.C. -- The consumer group that pioneered the most successful insurance premium regulation law in the nation, which has saved California…
Sep 8, 2009Wednesday's presidential address to Congress is the moment for President Obama to prove he is a real outsider, and the fate of…
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