Tobie Stanger has posted this piece at Consumer Reports comparing no-cost and low-cost tax preparation options from the major commercial tax preparation companies and the IRS.
by Jeff Sovern More here. One panel is on the CFPB proposed arbitration rule (I'm on that one) and consumer arbitration; another is on FAA preemption and nursing home arbitration; a third is on ADR in practice.
It's titled The Government Gorsuch Wants to Undo. All of it is worth reading, but here's an excerpt: Judge Gorsuch embraces a judicial philosophy that would do nothing less than undermine the structure of modern government — including the rules that keep our water clean, regulate the financial markets and protect workers and consumers. In […]
Verity Winship and Jennifer K. Robbennolt of Illinois have written Admissions of Guilt in Civil Enforcement, Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 101 (Forthcoming). Here is the abstract: Should agencies require admissions of guilt from the targets of civil enforcement? Administrative agencies rely heavily on settlement as a key enforcement tool. Admissions of guilt – or, more […]
Ya know how your credit card company now gives you your FICO credit score for free each month? And what about all those online companies peddling "free" credit scores? (They are sometimes free, sometimes not, and the companies are usually trying to sell you something else.) This article by Kenneth Harney explains that the credit score from […]
Stephen J. Ware of Kansas has written The Centrist Case Against Current (Conservative) Arbitration Law, 68 Florida Law Review (2016). Here is the abstract: In The Politics of Arbitration Law and Centrist Proposals for Reform, I explained how issues surrounding consumer and other adhesive arbitration agreements became divisive along predictable political lines (progressives vs. conservatives) […]
There's been a good bit of news on the financial disclosures for the people who work in the Trump white house. Go here to read each employee's disclosure form. (Click on the pdf for each employee, listed in alphabetical order.) What hasn't gotten much news is that in addition to disclosing the value (with ranges) of […]
Jeff posted yesterday one of the amicus briefs filed in support of the CFPB in the pending DC Circuit case. The others amicus briefs in support of the CFPB are these: Public Citizen, Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, National Association of Consumer Advocates, and National Consumer Law Center, and Tzedek DC – Click here. Americans […]
Here. Deepak Gupta is counsel. Here's the Introduction and Summary of the Argument: The Constitution requires public accountability for government agencies but does not prescribe how it must be achieved. It can be achieved in a variety of ways through agency design, and indeed, there is tremendous variation in agency structure. Public accountability can also […]
Here. More than half the class members have submitted claims. Claimants are expected to recoup 80% of what they spent. The article attributes the high participation rate to the publicity the case garnered as well as the amounts individual claimants have at issue, as much as $20,000.