In the News Today – May 22, 2019

ALI Tables Most of Its Consumer Contracts Restatement: At its annual meeting yesterday, the American Law Institute tabled most of its controversial Restatement of the Law, Consumer Contracts, until next year. The project has drawn criticism from both consumer and business groups. (Legal Newsline)

Attorneys Say Calif. Data Law, Class Actions an “Awful Combination”: In a piece dissecting California’s new Consumer Privacy Act, attorneys with the Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Field law firm say that “history teaches that an enforcement program with the private class action at its center is impossible to control and leads inevitably to abuse.” (Law360)