Lauren Saunders of the National Consumer Law Center has written "Practice Implications of Fifth Circuit Ruling That CFPB Funding Unconstitutional." Read it here.
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Read the opinion. The court summarized its ruling this way: Community Financial Services Association of America and Consumer Service Alliance of Texas challenge the validity of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s 2017 Payday Lending Rule. The Plaintiffs contend … that the Bureau is unconstitutionally structured. [We agree with the Pplaintiffs that] Congress’s decision to abdicate […]
Read Stiglitz's essay here.
In his essay The Search for Strategies to Reduce Medical Error, law prof Robert Rabin reviews Closing Death’s Door: Legal Innovations to End the Epidemic of Healthcare Harm, by Michael J. Saks and Stephan Landsman, which considers the policy strategies for reducing medical error. Rabin then places Saks and Landsman's work in the context of […]
Job is for the Boston or D.C. Office. Here's the announcement: Director of Litigation opportunity at the National Consumer Law Center The National Consumer Law Center, the country’s preeminent advocate for low-income consumers, proudly traces its roots to the 1960s “War on Poverty” in its work as a support center for legal services offices. NCLC’s […]
In response to the Supreme Court's recent ruling in West Virginia v. EPA, the National Consumer Law Center has written Impact of Supreme Court’s “Major Question Doctrine” on Consumer Litigation. Read it here.:
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, more than 3100 people were killed in 2020 alone because drivers were distracted. A significant percentage of the problem is caused by cell-phone use while driving. We all see people texting while driving. Sending or reading a text can take the driver's eyes off the road for […]
A consumer plaintiff notched a rare Supreme Court win in a Federal Arbitration Act decision this morning, Morgan v. Sundance Inc. The first three paragraphs of Justice Kagan's unanimous opinion sum things up nicely: When a party who has agreed to arbitrate a dispute instead brings a lawsuit, the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) entitles the […]
Join the Washington D.C. ACS Lawyer Chapter for a discussion on the Supreme Court's decision in AMG Capital v. FTC. The panel discussion — a Zoom webinar — is on Thursday, May 26, 2022 from 12:30PM – 1:30PM ET. Register here. The panelists will discuss the background of the case, it's impact on the agency, […]
“The American retirement system is built for the rich — Lawmakers proclaim they want to help the middle class save. But that’s not who benefits most from IRAs and 401(k) plans.” Read this Washington Post essay on that topic by law prof Daniel Hemel.