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7 Apr 2021, 4:06 pm
As noted in Jeff Sovern’s post last week, the Supreme Court ruled last Thursday in the case of Facebook v. [read post]
1 Apr 2021, 7:26 am
by Jeff Sovern So says an indentified financial services lobbyist, quoted in Neil Haggerty's article in The American Banker, Will Senate vote on CFPB chief come down to tiebreaker? [read post]
25 Mar 2021, 7:39 am
by Jeff Sovern Yesterday, Acting CFPB Director Dave Uejio posted an item to the CFPPB Blog that suggests that the Bureau may rekindle its former payday lending rule in some form. [read post]
21 Mar 2021, 10:25 am
by Jeff Sovern Consumer law is filled with illusory consumer protections, and one form they take is the supposed obligation to give serious consideration to the possiblity that the provider is wrong in its claims. [read post]
15 Mar 2021, 10:32 am
by Jeff Sovern The recording is here. [read post]
11 Mar 2021, 10:47 am
by Jeff Sovern Last year we blogged about the CFPB's disappointing abusiveness policy statement. [read post]
11 Mar 2021, 7:52 am
by Jeff Sovern Yesterday, the Senate Banking Committee split, 12-12 on the vote to confirm FTC Commissioner Rohit Chopra to be the next CFPB director. [read post]
5 Mar 2021, 7:13 am
by Jeff Sovern Barney Frank is speaking today at the Berkeley Consumer Law Scholars Conference. [read post]
1 Mar 2021, 8:10 am
by Jeff Sovern You should be able to listen here. [read post]
31 Jan 2021, 10:03 am
by Jeff Sovern Here. [read post]
24 Jan 2021, 10:49 am
by Jeff Sovern My new article is now up on SSRN: Six Scandals: Why We Need Consumer Protection Laws Instead of Just Markets. [read post]
22 Jan 2021, 8:26 am
by Jeff Sovern If you are curious to learn more about FTC Commissioner and CFPB Director-Nominee Rohit Chopra, here is a video of him discussing the FTC's remedial authority a couple days before the Supreme Court heard oral argument earlier this month in AMG v. [read post]
20 Jan 2021, 11:12 am
by Jeff Sovern The American Banker's Kate Berry has the report here. [read post]
17 Jan 2021, 5:52 pm
by Jeff Sovern Report here (may be behind a paywall). [read post]
10 Jan 2021, 8:26 am
by Jeff Sovern Obituary here. [read post]
8 Jan 2021, 7:38 am
by Jeff Sovern The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Representative Katie Porter may be dropped from the House Financial Services Committee. [read post]
5 Jan 2021, 11:36 am
by Jeff Sovern The report is here. [read post]
30 Dec 2020, 8:09 am
by Jeff Sovern The CFPB has posted to its website an announcement that it will hold an event on January 5 to announce the "findings, analyses, and recommendations" of its Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law. [read post]
8 Dec 2020, 11:38 am
by Jeff Sovern WaPo's report is here and HuffPo's here. [read post]
4 Dec 2020, 2:48 pm
by Jeff Sovern Here, though the report on liability is not very detailed and so perhaps it is less bad than I fear. [read post]