by Paul Alan Levy D.C. Superior Court Chief Judge Robert Morin has issued his ruling on the pending objections to search warrants served on Facebook by Federal prosecutors seeking the entire contents of the Facebook accounts for the DisruptJ20 Facebook page as well as the personal accounts of two individuals, Lacey MacAuley and Legba Carrefour, […]
The story is in the American Banker. The theory is that by refusing to rule out a run for the governorship of Ohio, Cordray led Trump to believe that he could avoid the political heat he would take by firing Cordray because Cordray would quit anyway. Indeed, firing Cordray might even make him a political […]
by Jeff Sovern Bloomberg is reporting in a story headlined Senate Clears Way for Ex-Mnuchin Deputy to Lead Bank Regulator, that: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has filed a motion to kick off debate and an eventual vote to appoint Otting as head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. It will likely take […]
The ABA Antitrust Consumer Protection Committee is seeking law professors to judge a law student writing competition on he Tension Between Truth in Advertising Restrictions and First Amendment Free Speech Rights. Submissions are to be due by April 1, 2018 and the award is to be decided by July, 2018. If you are interested, please email […]
A new report by The Century Foundation based on analysis of data from the Department of Education shows that students who attended for-profit colleges filed more than 98 percent of the requests for student loan forgiveness alleging fraud by their schools.The study is based on nearly 100,000 applications for loan forgiveness based on "borrower defense" […]
by Jeff Sovern Here (the content appears to be free). Excerpt: After the GOP captured the U.S. House majority in 2010, Republicans quickly went to work trying to * * * undercut the Dodd-Frank Act and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, among other things. A Democratic victory in 2018 would likely have a reverse effect, […]
by Jeff Sovern Phishing emails purporting to come for financial institutions and others have long been an unfortunate fact of life for consumers (for a reports of phishing emails supposed to be from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, go here, and the concept of phishing has even shown up in the title […]
That's the topic of this piece by Jacklyn Willie (possibly behind a pay wall) which discusses this Chamber of Commerce amicus brief filed in an important Ninth Circuit appeal. The suit was filed against the University of Southern California by its employees over the legality of fees charged through USC's employee retirement plan. Willie explains that The central question […]
by Paul Alan Levy Prestigious Pets, the Dallas-area pet-sitting company that faced a blizzard of public criticism after it invoked a non-disparagement clause as a basis for suing a husband and wife in small claims court after the wife posted over a mildly critical Yelp review of the company’s procedures and the resulting overfeeding a […]
by Paul Alan Levy After the late John Dozier was humiliated about ten years ago after it came to light that his office was routinely including a tag line in its demand letters threatening to sue for copyright infringement if the demand letter was republished, I thought it had become well-established that using those lines […]