The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has created this web page describing a variety of programs and strategies for financial protection during the pandemic.
by Jeff Sovern I have started submitting my article, Six Scandals: Why We Need Consumer Protection Laws Instead of Just Markets, to law reviews and in hopes of winning the law review lottery, decided to try my luck at the Harvard Law Review and Yale Law Journal (as if, as my students said about twenty […]
Jordan Elias as written 'More Than Tangential': When Does the Public Have a Right to Access Judicial Records? Here is the abstract: Public accountability requires open proceedings and access to documents filed with the courts. The strong policy favoring access to judicial records creates a presumption against sealing documents without a compelling reason. The Ninth Circuit […]
The Tax Policy Center — a project of the Urban Institute and Brookings — has produced this informative paper on the new, expanded child tax credit, which is a part of the American Rescue Plan. The Tax Policy Center estimates that 92 percent of families with children will get an average child tax credit of […]
The Sixth Circuit just ruled that the Center for Disease Control's eviction moratorium is unlawful because it lacks any basis in the statute that the government says authorizes it. Read the decision here.
As the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau turns 10 years old, a new report from the U.S. PIRG Education Fund recaps how the agency has helped consumers over the past decade and the steps under way to refocus the CFPB on its mission after three years of retrograde decisions under the Trump Administration. The report also […]
FTC to Ramp Up Law Enforcement Against Illegal Repair Restrictions (July 21, 2021) FTC Rescinds 1995 Policy Statement that Limited the Agency’s Ability to Deter Problematic Mergers (July 21, 2021) FTC Votes to Reverse Course on Repeal of Fabric Care Labels (July 21, 2021)
Here. Excerpt: Cryptocurrency startup Solidus Labs has hired the former director of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) as its top regulatory official, she told Reuters. * * * Founded in 2017 by former Goldman Sachs employees, New York-based Solidus Labs provides cryptocurrency trading surveillance and risk monitoring tools. Its backers include private equity […]
Vijay Raghavan of Brooklyn has written Consumer Law's Equity Gap, Utah Law Review (forthcoming 2022). Here is the abstract: This article is about the views that shape and constrain the development of consumer law. Consider the market for short-term, high-cost loans. Policymakers tend to justify intervening in these markets on inefficiency grounds (consumers exhibit present bias) […]
SAVE THE DATE! Teaching Consumer Law Conference With a Full Day Devoted to Clinical Education May 19, 20 & 21, 2022 Santa Fe, New Mexico Presented by the Center for Consumer Law, University of Houston, and the Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice, UC Berkeley It may seem like forever since there has been […]