State law includes a provision against price gouging of an "unconscionably excessive price" during natural disasters.
"We are literally in a war with energy companies who are price-gouging us, " Davis said Thursday.
Holding or pulling people under water, grabbing, pushing, eye-gouging or swimming trunk yanking are very common!
Orbach thinks Hollywood could deflect charges of gouging by discounting documentaries and other niche films.
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Nationwide, I count 34 states and the District of Columbia as having anti-price gouging laws.
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That will create opportunities for the sort of price-gouging that often accompanies currency changes.
About the importance of transparency, and how the Net requires disclosure and discourages price gouging.
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What, you mean the broadband companies are actually gouging us with these data caps?
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So, even if I concede everything you want to argue, folks, the anti-gouging law is still dumb.
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In the end the SEC decreed in August 1996 that marketmakers were colluding and gouging the public.
Schneiderman announced lawsuits Thursday against four gas station operators for price gouging in the wake of superstorm Sandy.
The chain denied that it was gouging franchisees and settled the suits in 2009 without admitting any liability.
The plan provoked a rash of complaints asserting Ticketmaster was monopolistic and gouging consumers with high service charges.
The White House has indicated that President Bush will veto any attempt to establish gasoline price gouging legislation.
Price gouging laws keep money prices low, but there are lots of other ways to pay for gas.
Gov. Gray Davis and consumer advocates blamed electric deregulation and price gouging by the utilities, for the situation.
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Mr. Schneiderman said investigations are ongoing into other instances of price gouging involving hotel rooms, batteries and other services.
But Schalk Burger is absent as he will miss the Boks' first three games after being banned for eye-gouging.
The faux morality of anti-gouging laws does not cause hurricanes, but it does exacerbate shortages and the resultant suffering.
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The mill had stopped doing business with suppliers who were price-gouging, he adds.
"I am not a rugby thug and will never intentionally engage in any eye-gouging or similar action, " he said.
The bill strengthened the president's conviction that power companies were gouging rural America.
At first sight, it looks as if the private sector is gouging consumers.
First, acquire some sort of marking device: pen, pencil, charcoal or gouging stick.
And that wasn't because the contractors were gouging or the services were gold-plating.
Providian was hit by class-action lawsuits and regulatory investigations for price-gouging, which cost hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements.
Burger's offence of eye-gouging is seen as the most dangerous in rugby, with players handed lengthy bans if found guilty.
You see the stepping up of gouging of communities on the taxpayer dime, people kicked out of low-income housing, etc.
De Villers went on to say that "eye-gouging is something that we as a team will never be part of".
She said that the station was not engaging in price gouging but that "emotions were running very high" among drivers.
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