Despite a court order barring the Education Department from collecting on the federal student loans of former Corinthian College students, the agency continued to pursue the debts. Some former students had their paychecks garnished or tax refunds seized by the government. The students' recently moved to hold Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in contempt. DeVos and […]
by Paul Alan Levy It always happens during the presidential election season. This year, a bogus DMCA takedown was aimed at a video posted to Twitter by Donald Trump. Promoting his wild conspiracy theories about potential election opponent Joseph Biden, Trump fiddled with the first fifteen seconds of the video for the Nickelback musical number […]
Damian Paletta at the Washington Post has written Federal government has dramatically expanded exposure to risky mortgages, effectively asking whether conditions are forming for another homeowner mortgage crisis of the severity associated with the Great Recession. Some excerpts: The federal government has dramatically expanded its exposure to risky mortgages, as federal officials over the past […]
This article by Amy Goldstein describes "an emerging mosaic of evidence that, nearly a decade after it became one of the most polarizing health-care laws in U.S. history, the ACA is making some Americans healthier — and less likely to die."
Richard Frankel of Drexel has written Corporate Hostility to Arbitration, 50 Seton Hall Law Review (forthcoming 2020). Here is the abstract: In the last 30 years, corporations have aggressively and successfully pushed the Supreme Court to invalidate virtually all state regulation of mandatory arbitration clauses on the ground that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) preempts any […]
That's the subject of a new book by Linda Fisher of Seton Hall and Judith L. Fox of Notre Dame, published by Cambridge Press, The Foreclosure Echo: How the Hardest Hit Have Been Left Out of the Economic Recovery. You can read the introduction here. Here's the abstract: This paper includes the Table of Contents and […]
by Paul Alan Levy The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit recently upheld the rights of litigants to use public pressure to discourage companies from suing them. The issue arose in Bank of Hope v. Chon, when a bank sued one of its departed founders, after an employee who was fired for […]
The House just passed a bill that would restore legal rights to millions of workers and consumers. By a vote of 225-186, the House passed the Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal (FAIR) Act, to ban companies from requiring workers and consumers to resolve legal disputes in private arbitration. Arbitration is a process with no judge, no […]
by Paul Alan Levy The personal and commercial heirs of the deceased photographer Korda, best known for the iconic photograph of Che Guevara that has adorned Tshirts and posters displayed by young admirers for fifty years, have issued a takedown demand to Liberty Maniacs over its sales of parody items that display the photo’s cap […]
Read this post by law prof Adam Levitin titled "FDIC and OCC Race to Court to Defend 120.86% Interest Rate Small Business Loan." It's not a pretty thing our federal regulators are doing. Here's an excerpt from Adam's post: FDIC and OCC filed an amicus brief in the district court in an obscure small business bankruptcy case […]