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12 Apr 2007, 9:09 am
by Deepak Gupta Three consumer groups -- Consumer Federation of America, Center for Responsbile Lending, and National Consumer Law Center -- issued a statement today expressing disappointment with the Pentagon's new proposed rules on predatory lending to servicemembers. [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]
6 Dec 2010, 8:01 am
by Deepak Gupta This morning, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in a closely watched class-action case from the Ninth Circuit, Wal-Mart v. [read post]
25 Jan 2007, 6:58 am
by Deepak Gupta A hearing before the Senate Banking Committee on "Examining the Billing, Marketing, and Disclosure Practices of the Credit Card Industry, and Their Impact on Consumers" is now underway. [read post]
23 Mar 2009, 8:18 am
by Deepak Gupta FDIC chairman Sheila Bair says that, to protect consumers from aggressive lending practices, Congress should consider "curtailing" the powers of federal banking regulators to preempt state consumer protection laws. [read post]
14 Jul 2009, 11:22 am
by Deepak Gupta The Minnesota Attorney General today filed a major lawsuit against the Minnesota-based National Arbitration Forum (NAF), one of the nation's largest and most controversial arbitral forums. [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]
7 Feb 2007, 6:26 am
by Deepak Gupta This morning, at 10am, the Senate Banking Committee will hold another important hearing on a pressing consumer issue: "Preserving the American Dream: Predatory Lending Practices and Home Foreclosures. [read post]
30 Jun 2008, 3:17 pm
by Deepak Gupta On Friday, New Mexico's highest court unanimously handed consumers an important victory, holding that, "in the context of small consumer claims that would be prohibitively costly to bring on an individual basis, contractual prohibitions on class relief are contrary to New Mexico's fundamental public policy of encouraging the resolution of small consumer claims and are therefore unenforceable in this state. [read post]
29 Sep 2010, 3:26 pm
by Deepak Gupta Today we filed our merits brief for the respondents in the U.S. [read post]
5 Oct 2016, 8:02 am
Deepak Gupta and Brent McIntosh will serve as panelists, and Amy Howe will moderate. [read post]
25 Nov 2009, 7:28 am
” Posted by Deepak Gupta on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 07:48 PM in Consumer Litigation, Debt Collection, Free Speech, Intellectual Property & Consumer Issues, Unfair & Deceptive Acts & Practices (UDAP) | Permalink [read post]
5 May 2009, 2:25 pm
by Deepak Gupta Today, the ABA's Dispute Resolution Section issued a statement suggesting that it may be backing down from its ill-advised "opt out" proposal on forced arbitration (which we've criticized on this blog here, here, and here.) [read post]
27 May 2008, 12:12 pm
by Deepak Gupta A cutting-edge issue in the world of consumer law--and one that this blog has discussed many times before (see, e.g., here, here, and here)--is the extent to which corporations can enforce class-action bans placed in consumer adhesion contracts. [read post]
28 Aug 2009, 2:06 pm
by Deepak Gupta This week, the Legal Talk Network hosted a debate over mandatory arbtiration between me and Alan Kaplinsky, a corporate defense lawyer known for pioneering the use of arbtiration clauses by banks and lenders. [read post]
21 Apr 2010, 9:43 am
by Deepak Gupta In an opinion by Justice Sotomayor, the U.S. [read post]
13 Apr 2011, 4:42 pm
by Deepak Gupta Who Will the White House Pick to Lead the Consumer Bureau? [read post]
5 Apr 2011, 9:05 am
by Deepak Gupta The House Financial Services Committee is holding a hearing at 10am tomorrow, April 6, on "Legislative Proposals to Improve [Read: Weaken] the Structure of the CFPB. [read post]
2 Apr 2009, 3:45 pm
by Deepak Gupta Those of us who regularly read amicus briefs by the likes of the U.S. [read post]
20 May 2010, 6:15 pm
by Deepak Gupta By a vote of 59-39 tonight, the Senate passed sweeping legislation to tighten the rules governing the U.S. financial system. [read post]
