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CFPB goes dark

As Jeff noted, Treasury Secretary Bessent is now serving as Acting Director of the CFPB. Bloomberg Law reports he has directed Bureau staff to “stop all rulemaking, communications, litigation, and other activities” unless required by law. The Fifth Circuit was scheduled to hear arguments today on industry’s wide-ranging challenge to the agency’s regulation of credit […]

NACA extends applications for paid summer fellowships until February 15 for those who lost federal summer jobs

We received a request to post the following: The National Association of Consumer Advocates was angered and disappointed by the new Federal Administration’s unwarranted decision to rescind summer clerk positions for law students interested in consumer and economic justice careers. While we’re sorry we cannot offer assistance to most law students harmed by this thoughtlessly […]

Seth Frotman’s Measure for the CFPB’s Success

On February 7, CFPB General Counsel Seth Frotman gave a talk at the University of Michigan, The Federal General Counsel, Law, and Our Democracy at a Crossroads. The entire speech is worth a read, but I want to quote one part that describes Frotman’s view of what the CFPB should do and provides a test […]

Steiger Fellowship provides paid consumer law summer internships for law students, including 1Ls

Here’s the announcement: The Janet D. Steiger Fellowship Project provides law students with the extraordinary opportunity to work in the consumer protection departments of state and territorial Offices of Attorneys General and other consumer protection agencies, as well as the National Association of Attorneys General and the Attorney General’s Office of the District of Columbia. […]

Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice hiring policy director

We received the following announcement: We’re Hiring A Policy Director! At the UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice, we work to establish equity and fairness in the marketplace. We believe that building economic justice means developing and enforcing laws that fight fraud and deception, that protect low-income communities and communities of color, […]

UNJUST DEBTS

From the inside cover: Bankruptcy is the busiest federal court in America. In theory, bankruptcy in America exists to cancel or restructure debts for people and companies that have way too many—a safety valve designed to provide a mechanism for restarting lives and businesses when things go wrong financially. In this brilliant and paradigm-shifting book, […]