Practice Area: Consumers' Rights
Lawmakers Warn SEC: Don’t Encourage Securities Fraud
Recently, some Trump Administration officials have begun to signal that they favor eliminating securities fraud class actions, and even support urging corporations to add fine print language to various documents that would bar investors from going to court if they are illegally cheated (forcing them, instead, into a private arbitration system), and using that same fine print tactic to ban class actions.
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Their Call Cannot be Completed as Dialed: 9th Circuit Cracks Down on Robocalls
Image via Phillipe Put on Flickr By Jennifer Bennett Staff Attorney The Ninth Circuit just made life much harder for debt collectors who break the law, and for all corporations that think they can get away with breaking the law as long as they stop once…
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Mick Mulvaney is Turning the CFPB Into the “Corporate Fraud Protection Bureau”
In September, Equifax – one of the three credit reporting giants with unparalleled access to the personal information of Americans, including social security numbers – revealed that it had been hacked and that the personal data of 143 million Americans had been stolen. In the…