At 38 Loyola Consumer Law Review 183 (2026). Here’s the abstract: The second Trump Administration has waged war against consumers and against the federal agencies that seek to protect consumers. It has tried to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, expand the President’s authority to exert iron-fisted control over agency directors, and significantly shrink the federal workforce that in the […]
Author Archives: Jeff Sovern
So claims a class action complaint in a story by Law360’s Lauren Berg. WaPo’s practice came to light because of the New York law obliging companies using surveillance pricing to so disclose. That’s the first use of surveillance pricing I’ve heard of that we wouldn’t know about but for the NY statute; I wonder if […]
Back in 2023, Brian Johnson testified before the House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Monetary Policy during a hearing on the CFPB. The testimony offers clues as to what Johnson thinks. It includes a long list of items where Johnson seems to think the Bureau had gone astray. I picked out four […]
Recently I took a redeye from California to New York. I paid a bit more for extra leg room in the hope that it would help me sleep. But when I boarded the flight, I discovered a metal box–part of the plane–taking up some of the space under the seat in front of me. The […]
Here (behind paywall; disclosure: it includes a short piece I wrote).
With Angie Littwin of Texas, NCLC’s Carla Sanchez-Adams, and others at Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast.
American Banker’s Kate Berry has the story here. Johnson served as former CFPB director Kathy Kraninger’s second-in-command during the first Trump administration. It remains to be seen whether he is more like Vought or Kraninger or goes in a different direction but I can’t say I’m optimistic.
At Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Finance Monitor podcast. From the episode description: Amelia advances a bold thesis in her article: that consumer protection law, and particularly consumer financial protection law, may be the most impactful body of law in the United States. She further argues that the strength of consumer protection laws may serve as a […]
The ALI is working on a new project, Principles of the Law, Civil Liability for Artificial Intelligence. NYU Professor Mark Geistfeld is the reporter. Alan Kaplinsky interviewed him for Ballard Spahr’s Consumer Finance Monitor podcast about the project and some of AI’s implications for consumer law.
Regular Amazon users probably know that if they agree to subscribe to certain products and receive deliveries at regular intervals, Amazon charges less than if they buy the items one at a time. But now some plaintiffs have brought a would-be class action in which they claim that Amazon raises the price after someone subscribes, […]