by Paul Alan Levy In a motion for leave to intervene filed today, three anonymous Internet users who sought information from the DisruptJ20 web site, who joined listservs through which such information was communicated, or who volunteered to provide legal support work for the range of nonviolent protest activities advertised on the site, are asking […]
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Reporter Sarah Kliff is reporting at Vox that The Trump administration plans to deeply cut Obamacare outreach and advertising, officials announced Thursday. They will reduce Obamacare advertising spending 90 percent, from the $100 million that the Obama administration spent last year to $10 million this year, and cut the budget for the in-person enrollment program by 41 […]
Politico reports that, seven months into the Trump administration, Department of Education Secretary DeVos has: — Moved to gut two major Obama-era regulations reviled by the industry that would have cut off funding to low-performing programs and made it easier for defrauded students to wipe out their loans; — Appointed a former for-profit college official, […]
Wells Fargo now says it has found a total of up to 3.5 million potentially fake bank and credit card accounts, up from its earlier tally of approximately 2.1 million. The additional fake accounts were discovered by a previously-announced analysis that went back to January 2009 and that reviewed the original May 2011 to mid-2015 […]
Will he stay or will he go? (Okay, it's poor analogy, but I like the song.) This article by C. Ryan Barber (possibly behind a paywall) explains that Rep. Jeb Hensarling keeps asking Consumer Financial Protection Bureau head Richard Cordray whether he's going to serve out his term or resign to run for Ohio governor: U.S. Rep. […]
A Washington Post column reminds us: "Today marks your final opportunity to submit comments to federal regulators who want to undo the government's net neutrality rules for Internet providers, in a move that could have sweeping implications for the future of the Web. The push to weaken or eliminate the rules has been met with praise from […]
Beachbody, one of the world’s largest sellers of exercise videos, supplements, and weight-loss programs, has agreed to change its website and sales practices to better protect consumers. The Santa Monica-based company, which claims over 23 million customers, also will pay $3.6 million in penalties and restitution as part of a final court judgment. The judgment […]
Professor Rebecca Tushnet on her 43(B)log has an interesting and thorough discussion today of a recent court decision in a false advertising case, Korolshteyn v. Costco Wholesale Corp. (S.D. Cal. Aug. 23, 2017): Costco’s TruNature Gingko labels represent that the product “supports alertness & memory,” that “Gingko biloba can help with mental clarity and memory,” […]
Georgetown law prof Adam Levitin has penned this article in American Banker (and a similar piece for Credit Slips). (The American Banker version may be behind a paywall.) State usury laws generally are preempted by the National Bank Act when a loan is held by a national bank. But, as Levitin notes, "[o]nce the note leaves the hands […]
The president of KidsandCars.org, Janette Fennell, explains: "Under the guise of 'reform,' a bill called the Regulatory Accountability Act (RAA) would add a maze of additional bureaucracy to the life-saving protections. Instead of making it easier to implement protections, the RAA is a recipe for more red tape and additional layers of bureaucracy in a […]