by Paul Alan Levy Civil rights activists in Cobb County, Georgia, have been urging members of the community to come in force to the impending school board meeting on June Tenth to celebrate Juneteenth by signing up to speak in support of minority members of the school board, who have been under fire recently. Somebody […]
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The Federal Trade Commission staff has provided its 2020 Annual Financial Acts Enforcement Report to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on its enforcement and related activities regarding the Truth in Lending Act, Consumer Leasing Act, and Electronic Fund Transfer Act. The report highlights the FTC’s enforcement actions related to automobile purchases and financing, payday lending, […]
Many of our readers are consumer lawyers. Many of them handle complex, aggregated litigation, so they may be interested in Collected Wisdom on Selecting Leaders and Managing MDLs by law professor Elizabeth Burch and U.S. district judge Stephen Bough. Here is the abstract: Today, nearly one out of every two new suits filed in federal […]
That's the title of this article by LA Times consumer reporter David Lazarus, who explains that "Rohit Chopra is expected to receive the U.S. Senate’s blessing any day now to become the new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. His job will be to restore credibility to a watchdog agency that was largely sidelined during […]
by Paul Alan Levy When Keep Pushing, a St. Louis community organization devoted to protecting the unhoused, went door-to-door to speak to tenants facing eviction orders and hand out a flyer about their rights under the CDC eviction moratorium, one of the landlords whose tenants were visited, Norwood 2020, was desperate to suppress this potential threat […]
Here. This really brings home how mortgage debt compares to other consumer debts.
The Washington Post reports: The Biden administration continues to defend lawsuits against the Education Department over Trump-era policies on student loans and career training regulation. Biden’s Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has begun dismantling his predecessor’s policies. The department this week lifted a ban on colleges providing emergency grants to undocumented and international students. It has […]
The Federal Trade Commission was busy yesterday. Operators of Student Loan Debt Relief Scheme Banned From Providing Debt Relief Services as Part of Settlement with FTC (May 17, 2021) FTC Announces Latest Enforcement Action Halting Deceptive CBD Product Marketing (May 17, 2021) FTC Data Shows Huge Spike in Cryptocurrency Investment Scams (May 17, 2021)
By Dash Radosti As consumer-related COVID-19 litigation continues, the courts are sending airlines an important reminder: vouchers are not the same as refunds. However, there is a catch – courts are limiting this holding to the plain text of the contract between flyers and carriers. Two recent federal cases reiterated this principle: Ide v. British Airways […]
The U.S. Department of Education announced today that Richard Cordray will be its Chief Operating Officer of Federal Student Aid. Cordray is the former Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the former Attorney General of Ohio. Federal Student Aid is responsible for managing the student financial assistance programs authorized under Title IV of […]