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Allison Zieve
Allison Zieve is the director of Public Citizen Litigation Group and Public Citizen's Supreme Court Assistance Project.
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Wells Fargo fined $3.7 billion for illegal activity including unjust foreclosures and vehicle repossessions
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau today ordered Wells Fargo Bank to pay more than $2 billion in redress to consumers and a $1.7 billion civil penalty for legal violations across several of its largest product lines. The bank’s illegal conduct... Continue reading
Posted Dec 20, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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Tesla buyers forced to arbitrate disputes
The New York Times reports: Until last month, a class-action lawsuit by Tesla owners looked as if it would reveal new details about the carmaker’s self-driving technology, which has been blamed for serious accidents and deaths. But then Tesla deployed... Continue reading
Posted Dec 19, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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"Why the U.S. Is Losing the Fight to Ban Toxic Chemicals"
A new ProPublica article reports that, "[f]rom a powerful chemical industry that helped write the toxic substances law to an underfunded EPA lacking in resolve, the flaws in the American chemical regulatory apparatus run deep." When ProPublica published stories this... Continue reading
Posted Dec 15, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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Report urges major changes at FDA
The Washington Post reports that an outside group that was asked to examine problems at the Food and Drug Administration in the wake of an infant formula crisis this year offered a scathing indictment of the agency’s structure and culture... Continue reading
Posted Dec 8, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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Judge strikes down regulation on graphic warnings for cigarettes
In 2010, Congress passed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, which, among other things, required the Food and Drug Administration to issue a rule requiring graphic warning labels covering the top half of the front and back of... Continue reading
Posted Dec 8, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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Poll shows broad support for CFPB
The Center for Responsible Lending reports: "New data from the bipartisan polling team Lake Research Partners and Chesapeake Beach Consultingi shows that voters across the political spectrum overwhelmingly support the ongoing mission of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to... Continue reading
Posted Dec 7, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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"Ringless voicemails" to cell phones are subject to robocalling restrictions
The Federal Communications Commission recently issued a unanimous decision on ringless voicemails — that is, messages left in voicemail boxes without ringing the consumers' cell phones. The FCC determined that ringless voicemails are “calls” and, therefore, require consumers’ prior express... Continue reading
Posted Dec 5, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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CPSC issues rule to protect children from strangulation by window covering cords. Industry association sues.
Nearly half of the children caught in cords for shades, blinds, or other window coverings die -- close to 100 kids died of strangulation from window covering cords in 2021 -- according to data from the Consumer Product Safety Commission.... Continue reading
Posted Dec 2, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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Tobacco companies challenge California law barring sales of flavored tobacco products
Having lost a motion for a preliminary injunction in the lower courts, various tobacco companies are asking the Supreme Court to enjoin a California law banning the sale of flavored tobacco products from going into effect as scheduled on December... Continue reading
Posted Dec 1, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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Appeal tests corporate strategy to bar mass arbitration
Alison Frankl at Reuters writes that a pending appeal asks the Ninth Circuit to approve arbitration provisions that block "mass arbitrations." As the article explains: "Verizon’s consumer contract, in essence, eliminates consumers’ ability to arbitrate en masse, thus neutralizing their... Continue reading
Posted Dec 1, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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CPSC tips for holiday cooking, decorating and toy shopping; CPSC report on toy-related injuries
The Consumer Product Safety Commission today issued "Top tips for Holiday cooking, decorating and toy shopping." Scroll down on this page. CPSC also issued a report called Toy-Related Deaths and Injuries for 2021. According to the report, there were more... Continue reading
Posted Nov 21, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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FTC releases data on do-not-call registry, robocall complaints, and consumer complaints
The Federal Trade Commission today released the National Do Not Call Registry Data Book for Fiscal Year 2022. The Data Book provides the most recent fiscal year information available on robocall complaints, the types of calls consumers reported to the... Continue reading
Posted Nov 21, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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CFPB report finds credit reporting failures, junk fees, and mishandling of COVID-19 protections
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has released a new Supervisory Highlights report on legal violations identified during the CFPB’s supervisory examinations in the first half of 2022. The report details key findings across consumer financial products and services, including how... Continue reading
Posted Nov 16, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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Texas judge strikes down federal student debt relief plan
As NPR reports, "President Biden's plan to erase federal student loan debts for tens of millions of borrowers hit a legal wall Thursday, when a U.S. District Court judge in Texas called it unlawful and vacated the debt relief program.... Continue reading
Posted Nov 11, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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State-owned nursing home asks Supreme Court to limit patients' right to sue
Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in Health & Hospital Corp. v. Talevski, which poses the question whether people who depend on initiatives that are funded in part by the federal government — such as Medicaid and programs that... Continue reading
Posted Nov 7, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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States lack standing to challenge the Dept of Education's plan to relieve student debt
Yesterday evening, a federal court in Missouri dismissed a challenge by six states (Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas, Iowa, Kansas, and South Carolina) to the Department of Education's plan to cancel $10,000 (or $20,000 for Pell grant recipients) of federal student-loan debt.... Continue reading
Posted Oct 21, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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Justice Barrett denies request to block Biden student debt-relief plan
This afternoon, Justice Amy Coney Barrett denied, without comment, a request from a taxpayers’ association in Wisconsin to enjoin the Biden Administration's plan for student debt relief. The lower court had held that the plaintiff lacked standing. The New York... Continue reading
Posted Oct 20, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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CLP blog - emails not working
Subscribers to our daily email digest of blog posts will have noticed that the emails have stopped coming. We have not been able to fix the problem but continue to work on it. Until it is fixed, please visit us... Continue reading
Posted Oct 19, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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NCLC's Consumer Rights Litigation Conference
The National Consumer Law Center is holding its annual Consumer Rights Litigation Conference in person for the first time since 2019. Details about the conference, to be held November 10-13 in Seattle, are here. Continue reading
Posted Oct 4, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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CFPB finds violations of federal law by student-loan servicers and university-owned lenders
Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a special edition of Supervisory Highlights on recent examination findings covering the practices of student loan servicers, and schools that lend to students directly. The exams found that these schools had improper blanket... Continue reading
Posted Sep 30, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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Rapid Growth of “Buy Now, Pay Later” Lending
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published a report today on the "Buy Now, Pay Later" industry. The report, Buy Now, Pay Later: Market trends and consumer impacts, finds that industry grew rapidly during the pandemic, and that borrowers may receive... Continue reading
Posted Sep 15, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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Patagonia founder gives away the company
Patagonia founder's is giving away his company, reportedly worth about $3 billion. The company will now be in the hands of a trust and a nonprofit organization. All future profits will be donated to help fight climate change. CNBC has... Continue reading
Posted Sep 15, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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CFPB and CMS address illegal nursing home debt collection practices
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has "released an Issue Spotlight highlighting some of the difficulties and experiences heard from caregivers about being pursued over friends’ or family members’ alleged debts from nursing home facilities. Based on the findings in the... Continue reading
Posted Sep 9, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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FTC seeks public comment on advertising to kids in digital media
The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on how children are affected by digital advertising and marketing messages that may blur the line between ads and entertainment. The FTC is seeking the input in conjunction with an October 19,... Continue reading
Posted Aug 26, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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Today at the CFPB
Two announcements today from the CFPB: CFPB Warns that Digital Marketing Providers Must Comply with Federal Consumer Finance Protections Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued an interpretive rule laying out when digital marketing providers for financial firms must... Continue reading
Posted Aug 10, 2022 at Consumer Law & Policy Blog
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