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Consumer rights are worthless without enforcement

  • Written by Anne Fleming, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University
John F. Kennedy's 1962 speech inspired the modern consumer rights movement.AP Photo/Bill Allen

Exactly 57 years ago, President John F. Kennedy made an impassioned pitch for stronger consumer rights.

“If consumers are offered inferior products, if prices are exorbitant, if drugs are unsafe or worthless, if the consumer is unable to choose on...

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