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17 Nov 2007, 5:54 pm
by Jeff Sovern Yesterday's Times reports on services--other than those operated by the big three credit bureaus--for preventing or catching identity theft, in an article titled "In ID Theft, Some Victims See Opportunity. [read post]
15 Nov 2007, 8:58 am
by Jeff Sovern Today's Times has an editorial on the mortgage legislation that is scheduled for a vote today on the House floor. [read post]
4 Nov 2007, 2:31 pm
by Jeff Sovern For more on the Consumer Product Safety Commission travel issues that Brian blogged about here, an editorial in today's Times, Playing Games With Toy Safety rejects calls for the resignation of Nancy Nord, acting chair of the CPSC, seemingly because the Times fears that "another vacancy might mean that even less would get done. [read post]
1 Nov 2007, 12:34 pm
by Jeff Sovern The 2003 FACTA Act directed federal regulators to issue identity theft guidelines on "red flags" and address discrepancies (identity thieves often use an address other than the consumer's because having credit cards, for example, sent to the consumer-victim will usually do the thief little good). [read post]
28 Oct 2007, 3:25 pm
by Jeff Sovern Three interesting recent pieces in the Times: Today's Times has an editorial, "Moving Ahead on Mortgages," that endorses the FDIC proposal to deal with the foreclosure crisis by freezing interest rates at the introductory teaser rate (I previously linked to the FDIC proposal here). [read post]
24 Oct 2007, 6:06 am
by Jeff Sovern We often post abstracts to consumer law articles appearing on SSRN, including abstracts by readers of this blog. [read post]
23 Oct 2007, 2:41 pm
by Jeff Sovern In addition to the report on the predatory lending bill Brian linked to below, today's Times also has an article about the government's system for insuring that meat is safe. [read post]
17 Oct 2007, 7:32 am
by Jeff Sovern Today's Times has an editorial, "Subprime in Black and White," as a follow-up to the article earlier this week about the NYU Furman Center Study (that Brian Wolfman blogged about here) finding that neighborhoods with a majority of borrowers of color have a higher incidence of subprime loans than majority-white neighborhoods, even when they have similar median income levels. [read post]
22 Aug 2007, 11:22 am
Jeff Sovern blogged yesterday about the New York Times article. [read post]
16 Jul 2007, 11:58 am
by Jeff Sovern The presidential campaigns and media outlets are understandably concerned with issues like the Iraq war, health care, the economy, nuclear proliferation, global warming, and the like. [read post]
27 Jun 2007, 8:16 pm
by Jeff Sovern Recently I asked a research assistant to review the web sites of several top law schools to see if they offer courses in consumer law. [read post]
12 Jun 2007, 2:09 pm
by Jeff Sovern On June 1, I attended a terrific policy roundtable on the credit counseling required by the 2005 Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act, at Fordham Law School, put on by the Fordham Corporate Law Center and Susan Block-Lieb of Fordham. [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]
2 May 2007, 8:36 am
The bottom line from this excellent article by Jeff Sovern is that the courts are somewhat split on this issue. [read post]
20 Apr 2007, 2:12 pm
by Jeff Sovern I was inspired by my co-blogger Paul Bland to add a problem to the consumer law casebook I've been working on with Dee Pridgen, Andy Spanogle, and Ralph Rohner about what happens when an identity thief signs an agreement providing for arbitration. [read post]
20 Apr 2007, 11:19 am
by Jeff Sovern On Wednesday I blogged about whether lenders who trolled for potential borrowers through a federal database containing the financial records of millions of student aid applicants might have violated the Fair Credit Reporting Act. [read post]
18 Apr 2007, 6:42 am
by Jeff Sovern The Washington Post had a story on Sunday about fears that lenders are trolling for potential borrowers through a federal database that contains the financial records of millions of student aid applicants. [read post]
12 Apr 2007, 12:06 pm
by Jeff Sovern The Christian Science Monitor reports here about so-called "mortgage consultants" who purport to rescue consumers from foreclosure and the laws designed to prevent foreclosure rescue fraud. [read post]
26 Mar 2007, 7:35 am
by Jeff Sovern In an article published last year, Toward a New Model of Consumer Protection: The Problem of Inflated Transaction Costs, 47 William & Mary Law Review 1635 (2006), I argued that businesses often make it harder for consumers to obtain things they are entitled to because doing so can be profitable. [read post]
24 Mar 2007, 5:35 pm
by Jeff Sovern The New York Times has had several interesting articles on consumer law issues today and yesterday. [read post]
