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This article at Think Progress points to some worrisome waivers in the terms of service for the DNA testing service at Ancestry.com. Ancestry.com argues in response that the some of the concerns are overstated but that in any event it has revised its terms to meet some of the concerns.
The Consumerist has this article on recent and proposed changes to the Department of Education's student-loan program.
The FTC reports: At the request of the Federal Trade Commission and the State of Florida, a federal court has temporarily halted a massive phony debt relief operation that bilked tens of millions of dollars from financially strapped consumers, including the elderly and disabled. According to the FTC and Florida, Jeremy Lee Marcus, Craig Davis […]
Here. The whole article is worth reading, but here's an excerpt: Buried deep in President Donald Trump’s 2018 budget request to Congress—specifically, on page 158 out of 159 pages in the supplemental "Major Savings and Reforms" document—is a section headed “Restructure the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.” It appears to be yet another Republican shot across […]
by Jeff Sovern We posted the first part of California-Irvine professor Leah Litman's take on the PHH case last week. Here is part two. Professor Litman offers a perspective on Humphrey's Exec, the Supreme Court case that held an independent agency–there, it was the Federal Trade Commission–was constitutional. I have wondered for some time how the […]
Consumer protection litigator Joel Winston wrote the article that prompted the fact check, and here is the fact check.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will hear argument in a case challenging the constitutionality of the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The question is whether the provision of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act that created the CFPB violates separation-of-powers principles because it provides that the CFPB […]
Here, in a report by Ted Frank (who is objecting to the settlement) and Will Chamberlain about Kumar v. Salov North America Corp., . Excerpt: The class will probably recover about $320,000 in cash; roughly 65,000 class members jumped through the hoops to file claims worth about $5 each. But class counsel is asking for […]
Mother Jones reports; Earlier this year, White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon said the Trump administration will be fighting regulations at every turn through "the deconstruction of the administrative state." The Regulatory Accountability Act, dubbed the "License to Kill bill" by some environmental groups, may kick off that trend by making reining in the industry […]