That is one of the questions Georgetown’s Steve Vladeck raises in today’s edition of his One First newsletter. Some background: the Department of Justice has made various arguments in an environmental case against the lawfulness of citizen suits to enforce environmental laws. Some of the arguments are not relevant to private claims to enforce consumer […]
Author Archives: Jeff Sovern
The order is here. Reuters has a story here. The district court is to consider in the first instance how to respond to the administration’s absurd proposal to cut more than half the Bureau’s employees.
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 […]
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 […]