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7 Feb 2008, 8:54 pm
" To summarize the problem, Deepak Gupta states it well: I've blogged here before about so-called check diversion companies -- private debt collectors that use their contracts with prosecutors to gin out collection demands, on official prosecutor stationary, threatening consumers who have written bad checks with criminal prosecution or jail unless they pay exorbitant collection fees. [read post]
7 Feb 2008, 1:10 pm
by Deepak Gupta Yesterday, the U.S. [read post]
7 Feb 2008, 10:36 am
by Deepak Gupta 1992, Congress required the federal government to set up a comprehensive national database covering the title-, theft-, and damage- history of used cars, based on data from insurance companies, junk and salvage yards, and all 50 states. [read post]
21 Dec 2007, 1:21 pm
by Deepak Gupta We've posted recently about the horrifying story of Jamie Leigh Jones, a 20-year old Haliburton/KBR employee who was gang-raped by her co-workers in Iraq and is now being denied her constitutional right to seek justice in court because of a mandatory binding arbitration clause in her employment contract. [read post]
21 Dec 2007, 12:34 pm
by Deepak Gupta Last month, I mentioned a case in which Public Citizen, together with Baltimore-based Civil Justice Inc., is challenging the constitutionality of mortgage foreclosure notice procedures in Maryland. [read post]
28 Nov 2007, 10:40 am
by Stephen Gardner As foretold by Deepak Gupta's 11/27 post, here is a brief response to the November 26 New York Times article that discussed charitable payments of leftover class action settlement funds (known in the class action biz as "cy pres," mostly because Law French always sounds fancier than English). [read post]
27 Nov 2007, 11:43 am
by Deepak Gupta Another Class Action Ban Bites the Dust: Yesterday, a Florida appeals court struck down a class action ban in an auto lease agreement. [read post]
23 Nov 2007, 11:00 pm
At the always informative Consumer Law and Policy Blog, Deepak Gupta has an excellent article discussing some recent pieces of journalism discussing foreclosures and sub prime lending. [read post]
19 Nov 2007, 8:25 am
by Deepak Gupta BBC News has been running a compelling series of articles on the subprime mortgage foreclosure crisis, including a particularly interesting article focusing on how the crisis is playing out in Cleveland, Ohio, which the BBC calls "the sub-prime capital of the United States. [read post]
15 Nov 2007, 1:33 pm
by Deepak Gupta A coalition of twenty national and local consumer and anti-poverty groups -- including Consumer Action, National Association for Consumer Advocates, National Consumer Law Center, Public Citizen, and U.S. [read post]
13 Nov 2007, 12:21 pm
by Deepak Gupta As law professor and guest-blogger Alan White explained in a post here last week, Barney Frank's new predatory lending bill -- H.R. 3915, known as the "Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2007" -- is not nearly as pro-consumer as its title suggests. [read post]
11 Nov 2007, 3:13 pm
(The New York Personal Injury Law Blog presents Blawg Review, a round-up of legal blogs, or "blawgs. [read post]
9 Nov 2007, 7:00 am
by Deepak Gupta The media and policymakers have been paying lots of attention lately to the plight of homeowners facing foreclosure. [read post]
4 Nov 2007, 6:03 pm
by Deepak Gupta Judging by the name alone, you might think that the Center for Consumer Freedom is an independent organization that advocates for consumers' rights to make informed choices in the marketplace. [read post]
2 Nov 2007, 2:02 pm
by Deepak Gupta BusinessWeek.com has just posted an interesting investigative report, titled "Prisoners of Debt," by reporters Robert Berner and Brian Grow. [read post]
2 Nov 2007, 12:36 pm
by Deepak Gupta A front-page article in the San Jose Mercury News earlier this week and a recent AP story both reported on a practice I've previously blogged about here: private debt collectors that rent out a prosecutor's name and authority, which they use to threaten consumers who have written bad checks with criminal prosecution and jail unless they pay exorbitant collection fees. [read post]
26 Oct 2007, 7:54 am
by Deepak Gupta Chair of Product Safety Agency Says Beefing Up Her Agency Would "Harm" Americans: In the wake of growing public concern over the number of unsafe toys and other products on the market, the chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Nancy Nord, has told Congress that a Senate safety bill--which would more than double her anemic agency budget and expand its authority--would "put the American people at greater risk. [read post]
24 Oct 2007, 1:02 pm
by Deepak Gupta We've blogged before about the proposed Arbitration Fairness Act, federal legislation that would end the scourge of pre-dispute mandatory binding arbitration clauses in consumer, employment, and franchise contracts. [read post]
24 Oct 2007, 11:08 am
by Deepak Gupta NPR's Chris Arnold had a story this morning about an intriguing deal between mortgage lender Countrywide and housing advocates to attempt to prevent foreclosures. [read post]
6 Jun 2007, 3:28 pm
by Jeff Sovern My co-blogger, Deepak Gupta has previously blogged about the FTC's request for comments on debt collection in preparation for a workshop it plans to hold in October. [read post]
