“Honesty in advertising and sales isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s the law.”
“Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, ...tell you...that a wage of $11 a week is going to have a disastrous effect on all American industry.” FDR, June 1938
“A self-supporting and self-respecting democracy can plead… no economic reason for chiseling workers’ wages or stretching workers’ hours.” FDR, May 1937
Consumer Fraud-- “Markets are not free when they deceive. People are not free when they are deceived.”
“We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.” FDR, January 1937
When a business violates consumers’ rights in a uniform way, harming numerous people in a similar way, a class action may be appropriate to recover money for the affected consumers. CJLF attorney Lee Anderson has represented thousands of people in class and collective actions to recover money owed by businesses.
