Civil Rights Icon Johnnie Carr, 97, Dies

Johnnie Carr, who joined childhood friend Rosa Parks in the historic Montgomery bus boycott and kept a busy schedule of civil rights activism up to her final days, has died. She was 97. Carr died Friday night [Feb. 22, 2008], said Baptist Health hospital spokeswoman Melody Ragland. She had been hospitalized after a stroke Feb. 11.

Settlement Involving Artifical Hip and Knee Makers Reached

Congress Should Ban Mandatory Pre-Dispute Consumer Arbitration

The Record of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is Anti-Worker and Anti-Consumer

NAIC holds public hearing on arbitration

Jere Beasley spoke on the consumer's behalf at the public hearing on Arbitration Clauses in Insurance Contracts on Monday, March 10 in Atlanta, GA. The hearing was held in conjunction with the 2003 Nation Association of Insurance Commissioners Spring National Meeting.

Family owned business settled lawsuit

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - PikNik Products Company, Inc. has settled a lawsuit claiming wantonness, willful fraud, reckless and mistaken fraud, breach of contract and breach of warranty for $262,000.

New Leadership for Anti-Arbitration Group

As we enter 2002, the battle on behalf the consumers against forced arbitration continues. Sullivan of Montgomery has been selected to take over the leadership of the anti-arbitration group that was formed months ago. Ward will ask members of the group to change the name of the group back to Alabama…