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Dow Jones International News Service A California Senate committee Wednesday approved a measure that would ask voters to decide if board members…
Jun 11, 2003Written Testimony of SCPIE Executive In Response to Prop 103-Challenge to Rate Increase Written testimony of SCPIE Assistant Vice President and Associate…
Jun 10, 2003Tell Telemarketers "Do Not Call" - Author Offers Other Remedies 1.08 million individuals registered 1.9 million phone numbers since April as "off…
Jun 10, 2003BestWire Consumer groups and several city attorneys have petitioned California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi to strike down a 7-year-old rule dictating how…
Jun 10, 2003Cynthia Smith - Concord, California
Jun 9, 2003Assembly Banking Committee Delays Key Hearing - Social Security Numbers of Opponents Bought "Written consent is an important improvement on this bill…
Jun 9, 2003Sacramento Bee When Gov. Gray Davis called a press conference last seek to support Sen. Jackie Speier's financial privacy bill -- after…
Jun 9, 2003The San Francisco Chronicle Will this stop what Court calls "corporateering" -- when corporations exceed their traditional role in the marketplace, invade…
Jun 9, 2003Los Angeles Times It's fitting that California, which has perhaps the nation's most severe identity theft problem, could soon have a groundbreaking…
Jun 8, 2003The Tallahassee Democrat "The important part of Proposition 103 is consumers have the right to challenge," Heller said. He observed that by…
Jun 8, 2003Consent Need Not Be In Writing, Stronger Local Bay Area Laws Preempted The compromise privacy protection legislation announced by Governor Davis and…
Jun 6, 2003Corporate Three Strikes Bill, Killed By Democrats In CA Senate This Week, Would Have Prevented Repeat Corporate Crime
Jun 6, 2003The San Francisco Examiner "Word of mouth is what corporations want most, and what they fear most," says Court, director of the…
Jun 6, 2003DAILY BREEZE (Santa Monica, CA) Members of the group held up posters claiming Bowen's key vote in an Assembly committee was tantamount…
Jun 6, 2003Democrats Kill Corporate Three Strikes Bill; Author, Consumer Groups Will Fight Again
Jun 4, 2003STATE AGENCY LOOKS TO REGULATE INSURERS' PRESCRIPTIONS COVERAGESan Jose Mercury News (California) A long-running court case pitting the state's HMO watchdog agency…
Jun 4, 2003Associated Press "Any politician who believes that convicted corporate felons should not have the same responsibility to society as other three-time felons…
Jun 4, 2003San Diego Union-Tribune Doug Heller, a senior advocate with FTCR, said the direct access amendment opens the door to a bifurcated market,…
Jun 3, 2003