Automatic Renewals (for customer services and products)

A growing number of US states have adopted laws that govern how businesses may sign up customers for automatic subscriptions or offers. These laws, often referred to as automatic renewal laws (ARLs) provide requirements for how and when an organization may sign up a customer for an automatic subscription.

In California, for example, the ARL requires businesses to provide conspicuous notice of the subscription terms, methods for cancelling, and to send certain confirmation notices. The California ARL law will be amended effective July 1, 2022.
Other states have similar laws regulating automatic subscriptions.

In the past five years, more than half of U.S. adults report they've gone into debt because of medical or dental bills.
A quarter of adults with health care debt owe more than $5,000. And about 1 in 5 with any amount of debt said they don't expect to ever pay it off.

"Debt is no longer just a bug in our system. It is one of the main products," said Dr. Rishi Manchanda, who has worked with low-income patients in California for more than a decade and served on the board of the nonprofit RIP Medical Debt. "We have a health care system almost perfectly designed to create debt."

The burden is forcing families to cut spending on food and other essentials. Millions are being driven from their homes or into bankruptcy, the poll found.

Here is a previous case by *** (Identity withheld for privacy reasons).


I was discriminated against and forced to leave Walmart. I was followed and pursued by officers for no reason and I need representation. I was kicked out without just cause and grabbed by the cops. The cops did not give me any reason the security guards did not give me any reason.

June 23, 2022

The National Labor Relations Board is asking a federal court to order Starbucks to stop using what the federal agency calls an "array of illegal tactics" aimed at workers involved in unionization efforts at the coffee chain's stores. 
The NLRB's petition, filed Tuesday in a U.S. District Court in western New York, is the board's third against the company since workers at a Starbucks store in Buffalo  in December voted to join a union — a first for the retailer's nearly 10,000 company-owned stores in the U.S. At least 151 stores have since voted to unionize, and more than 289 stores have filed with the NLRB to hold elections.
Starbucks opposes the unionization effort, arguing the company runs better when dealing directly with its employees.
But it has consistently rejected claims it uses unlawful tactics aimed at discouraging workers from trying to organize.

Here is a previous case by *** (Identity withheld for privacy reasons).


A visitor called and stated she wanted the phone number for the District Attorney's office in Palm Springs. She said she was told by a couple of people that she needed to contact the district attorney and meet with them. She stated that a dentist at Palm Desert Dental Center in Beverly Hills is messing up elderly people's mouths and refusing to fix them. She stated she had an oral surgery that cost her $8000, in which she paid $5000 in cash and her insurance paid $3000 and the dentist messed her mouth up. Besides the healing and the horrendous pain, they refused to see her. Despite she called the office and they said that yes he fixes people's issues all the time, they refused. She said she had to see another dentist to correct the issue and he said that the guy does such a messy job he doesn't like taking his clients. She mentioned that she was in pain for seven months, and her head was spasming during that time. She made a police report but they didn't tell her she needed to call the district attorney. He messes you up, takes your money, and refused to fix it. She said he is training these young people in his office to work and using them as guinea pigs. Now when they screwed up he refused to fix it, saying that they speak badly about his office so they are not allowed to come back. He has them think they are getting the best treatment but they are not.


Status: under review

Here is a previous case by *** (Identity withheld for privacy reasons).


I have been trying to send a counterclaim. There is a lot of issues because I can't see the claim on my account and every time I do the counterclaim information, I am having technical issues. I am just seeking some assistance to be able to send my counterclaim in.

The claim is with D.S. He is supposed to be the trustee of the land trust and there are illegal things happening with him personally and he has criminal action going on with housing so I asked for proof of him being the legal owner and he threaten me. I also requested a copy of the insurance statement of what I am paying on the house. He harassed me through my telephone, and I have all the text messages between us. One night I had to call the police because he just wouldn’t stop texting me. I heard that he has been to other people apartment and harass them.

I received a letter on Thursday the 16th of June, 2022 stating that he is filing for arbitration against me. I went to the www.adr.org website and download the counterclaim and filed it out but when I tried to send it in through the portal, I got error. When I tried to print it, it came out blank.

I have been living in this house since last year August and I gave him a 10% down of the $6500 and I also used $25000 out of my own money to fix up things in the apartment that he didn’t tell me about. I am paying $1080 for the rent/mortage and he said the home insurance is covered on the house. He filed a claim for $65000. I am filing a counterclaim for one of two things; (A) the $25000 returned back to me or (B) the house if it is not legal his or to find out who the legal owner is.

Here is a previous case by *** (Identity withheld for privacy reasons).


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This is the second ticket I have received in two weeks even having paid for parking. I’m confused because I attended school literally kitty corner from the lot and I park in the same area every day. And I have proof of paid parking as well. I have received a ticket even though I paid for my parking. I am an Aveda student. I know I’m unsure what happened. I have a ticket even though I have paid for my parking already. Yes, it was today and last week. Just the tickets are the issue.

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How can I press charges? I want to press charges again my wife Y.W. but I don’t want her to go to jail, I just want her to be evaluated so she can learn. We were together since 2012 and we got married in November 2014. We own everything together. I work 2 jobs and she also works. She is abusing me verbally and emotionally which is discouraging and that hurts me a lot. I think the house is wired so I spoke with my brother and few of my police friends asking them how I can find out if it is wired. Before when she goes to the bathroom she doesn’t lock the door but for the past year each time she goes to the bathroom, she locks the door and turns on the water but if I go in there and lock the door, she starts to cuss. I had to separate myself from her by going to sleep in another room. She cuss me for that because she thinks I am watching porn or talking to other females. I tell her that if she is not giving me anything then I will have to watch porn.

One day I was on the road and someone I don’t know came up to me and told me that she is sneaking around on me but when I approached her saying that a Hispanic told me that, she didn’t answer at all. During the night when I ask her about it, she called her sister to talk about she wants her to stay with her on the phone because she is scared. We have been to court before because she hit me and I hit her back so the police came and took me down to the station to give a report. She told me she will sue me for defamation of character which I don’t understand why she would want to do that when she is the one that calls me bad names, complain about my character defects, and when I say something to her about the way she acts, she starts to talk about she doesn’t want any argument.

I use to work at a place where I had to get up from 4 in the morning to go to work but she would stay up till 3 in the morning watching movies and if I say anything to her, she start talking about she doesn’t want to cuss. Now that she is doing early shifts, if I try to do something in the night, she starts cussing saying she has work in the morning. One time we argued and she called some commander and I called few of my dignitaries for her to hear them. I think someone is in her ears. I always want her to get everything she needs and I buy $400 worth of food which she only buys $200 worth. I don't believe in divorce so if I find out that she has another male in the house, I will beat him but won’t trouble her. We are the only black couple on the block and she can go from 0-100 real quick which she will then go outside and start shouting. Sometimes she will break stuff when she is angry and I do it back sometimes to show her how she acts but she only takes pictures and sends them to her family.

My brothers and their wives sometimes try to help her but nothing much happens. I believes that if she goes to an anger management class, the relationship will work out better. I have PTSD, I smokes and self-medicates myself and even though I know better, there is always something I am doing wrong. Sometimes when I am at home she would come and kick the door and when I open it, she runs to her room and call his sister and her sisters talking about I am high and at it again. I have been to jail many times before for marijuana so I don’t want her to go down that road, I just wants her to be evaluated so she can learn from what she is doing. She will walk around in the house butt naked with the blinds open and go outside sometimes too. If I ever try to go outside with a towel, she will make a big problem. I believes that she has another person so I usually goes to the places I know she often goes to see what she is doing but when she found out she start cussing me. I invited her to my church and she said she doesn’t like it so I told her about another one which she likes and now each time they have a disagreement would call the pastor’s wife and talk about it and then offer me the pastor’s number. She writes down things when we have disagreements and when she is on the phone she makes it sound like I amputting her through a lot.

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I am dealing with a furniture company and they have an arbitration clause in their contract/agreement. I have some questions about arbitration that I would like to know. In the agreement they have, it say to go through AAA or JAMS. If I don’t want to go through either company, can we go through another arbitration company? Is inquiries something that can go through arbitration? I want to know about filing fees. Will I be the one paying the filing fees if the company is the one that said we have to go through arbitration? What if the person/company doesn’t have an arbitration clause in their agreement, can we still go through arbitration? Can I file for arbitration without the person/company’s knowledge and then inform them after it has been filed?