New Mexico recently enacted a 36% rate cap on consumer loans. Among the remarks that motivated them to do so was the following: Thank you Madam Chair, Members of the Committee. My name is Will Hancock and I’m a student at the University of New Mexico School of Law. I had the displeasure of working […]
Here. Excerpt: Not just in Utah, but in Virginia and Washington, and Minnesota, tech companies have provided draft language that led to the introduction of industry-friendly privacy bills, according to legislators The Markup interviewed and previous reporting by Protocol. Big Tech funded nonprofits like TechNet, the State Privacy and Security Coalition, and the Internet Association have […]
John P. Hunt of UC-Davis has written The Failed Legal Case Against Student Debt Jubilee. Here is the abstract: This paper reviews and rebuts the arguments presented to date that the Executive lacks authority to engage in mass student loan cancellation. Legality skeptics have presented no compelling argument that the relevant statutory text, which authorizes the […]
Earlier this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit gave the CFPB a major victory in its long-running fight against a payday lender that had sought to evade state usury limits and licensing laws by originating its loans through an entity owned by a member of a Native American tribe using agreements […]
The lending practices of EasyPay Finance and Utah-based Transportation Alliance Bank (TAB Bank) are hurting military servicemembers, veterans, and their families, according to a new report from a coalition of consumer advocacy groups released in advance of Memorial Day. The report is here.
The Federal Trade Commission has issued a call for research presentations on a wide range of privacy and data security topics such as commercial surveillance and automated decision making for its annual PrivacyCon event, which will take place virtually on November 1, 2022. PrivacyCon 2022 will bring together a diverse group of stakeholders to discuss […]
A consumer plaintiff notched a rare Supreme Court win in a Federal Arbitration Act decision this morning, Morgan v. Sundance Inc. The first three paragraphs of Justice Kagan's unanimous opinion sum things up nicely: When a party who has agreed to arbitrate a dispute instead brings a lawsuit, the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) entitles the […]
The American Banker reports: “The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau again faces an existential threat in the courts — this time over whether the agency’s funding by the Federal Reserve System is constitutional. Earlier this month, five judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit signaled their view that the CFPB’s funding mechanism […]
CFA has posted this job announcement: The Consumer Federation of America, one of the nation’s leading nonprofit consumer advocacy organizations, is seeking an energetic, proactive person to be Communications Director. This person will be responsible for leading, developing, and overseeing CFA’s communications strategic plan to advance the advocacy policy agenda and promote the programmatic work […]
A Federal Trade Commission Consumer Alert warns about baby-formula scans and offers advice, here.