NYS consumer protection bill provides needed safeguards

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Essay

Publication Title

Newsday

Publication Date

4-18-2022

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When Democrats captured the New York Legislature in 2018, prognosticators predicted that New York would quickly pass progressive laws. Yet more than three years later, New Yorkers still lack the consumer protections of red and purple states like Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, and West Virginia.

Unlike most other states, New York does not ban unfair business practices — the same ban that empowered the Sandy Hook plaintiffs to hold accountable the manufacturer of the gun that killed their children. Imagine not having that recourse if such a tragedy occurred in New York.

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