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Good column: Why a business might thumb its nose at consumer protections bit.ly/J1OTQQ via @phillydotcom #forcedarbitration. 6:41 AM May 15th via Tweet Button
CUsafepatient @UCSUSA @chines_citizen @NRC4WandF @Public_Citizen Join our Twitter chat on #MDUFA on Thurs at 1 EST bit.ly/J4glP3 8:25 AM May 14th via bitly Retweeted by chines_citizen and 1 other
Judge throws out Schwab lawsuit, where it sought to take away customers' rights to sue it in #classactions. soc.li/2h50CEC #FINRA 6:40 AM May 14th via Tweet Button
ThePopTort ThePopTort: Cutting Class – Actions, That Is shar.es/2kBJb #alecexposed #tortreform 9:15 AM May 10th via Tweet Button Retweeted by chines_citizen and 1 other
@micah_citizen: "...the approach to dealing with "too big to fail" institutions has been dangerously short-sighted" huff.to/Jh5hOq 1:52 PM May 10th via Tweet Button
"ALEC's war on corporate accountability has received only a fraction" of media scrutiny. bit.ly/Jx03tp via Media Matters 7:34 AM May 9th via Tweet Button
@WSJ ed board *hearts* @public_citizen motto. See it here: on.wsj.com/IAUL2p #forcedarbitration 8:35 AM May 4th via Tweet Button
Product recall alert, "an amazingly citizen-friendly service coming from the Federal bureaucracy" abcn.ws/IVWLBL via @ABC #CPSC 8:08 AM Apr 17th via Tweet Button
Public interest lobbyist to me: "Right now, Capitol Hill is a fact-free environment." #medicaldevices 8:24 AM Apr 16th via Twitter for iPhone
CRLONLINE Banks create superpac, no limits on contributions, hope to threaten those supporting financial reforms rspnsb.li/HgWsme 9:06 AM Apr 5th via bitly Retweeted by chines_citizen and 198 others
Study: just 21 of 98 top-selling 2010/2011 autos have seats that r easy to use w/ child restraints. tinyurl.com/7q9mg64. #latimes 7:13 AM Apr 12th via Tweet Button
FDA in Hot Seat on Safety on.wsj.com/IBmb3g via @WSJ #medicaldevices 10:04 AM Apr 10th via Tweet Button
Prominent cardiologist Robert G. Hauser highly critical of passive FDA surveillance of medical devices. via @WSJ 10:01 AM Apr 10th via web
"Ohio's Consumer Sales Practices Act is now one of the weakest consumer laws in the country." tinyurl.com/cw3yh5k. 6:33 AM Apr 10th via Tweet Button
nbcwashington Two of the #MegaMillions winners had to convince the third person in their pool it WASN'T an April Fool's Day joke: bit.ly/IsaOQq 5:48 AM Apr 10th via TweetDeck Retweeted by chines_citizen and 16 others
PCGTW Catch our director Lori Wallach on @kojoshow at 1PM. She will be talking about #TPP and how it bans Buy America. bit.ly/HBgOoL #TPPA 8:49 AM Apr 9th via web Retweeted by chines_citizen
RT @consumerist: How A $10 Overdraft Fee Spiraled Into $1,555 In Debt To Wells Fargo tinyurl.com/7l6mhb6. 7:39 AM Apr 9th via web
"With one mobile tap, smartphone users risk signing up for a bogus, impossible-to-cancel service." nyti.ms/Hnq29v #spam 6:44 AM Apr 9th via Tweet Button
Don't Just Pressure ALEC's Corporate Sponsors, Name and Shame ALEC Legislators | The Nation tinyurl.com/7wzsp93. 6:40 AM Apr 9th via Tweet Button
Survey: 34% of doctors don't think they should disclose serious medical errors to patients. abcn.ws/IusSYo (via @ABC). 6:32 AM Apr 9th via Tweet Button

Name Christine Hines
Location Washington, DC
Web http://citizen.or...
Bio Public Citizen's consumer and civil justice counsel is gung-ho about consumer protection, individuals' access to justice, corporate accountability.