All posts tagged "federal trade commission"
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1.3KCFPBUnlicensed Debt Collector Gordon Engle Receives No Jail Time for Serious Financial Crimes
Despite the fanfare surrounding the $23 million dollar settlement by NC's AG, the real truth is Engle escaped jail due to public...
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714Debt CollectorForeclosure Mill Lawyer Michael Hord is Back in West Texas with a Select Job in Hand
Michael Hord of Hirsch Westheimer is joined by sanctioned Texas lawyer Gregory Van Cleave and his foreclosure defense law firm
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1.1KTexasA Texas Lemon: The OCCC Only List 57 Registered Debt Management and Settlement Companies in 2022
An astounding figure, since there are thousands of debt co's offering debt mgt services, debt settlement and related regulated svcs in TX.
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1.2KAppellate JudgesTexas Debt Collector Operating Without a License Sued in Houston, Before Judge Al Bennett
There's another couple of lawyers in Texas operating without a State Issued Bond and License, Mark and Shelley Hopkins of Hopkins Law,...
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946BankersHave You Heard About The Non-Judicial Foreclosure Debt Collection Clarification Act?
The Non-Judicial Foreclosure Debt Collection Clarification Act would make any business involved in non-judicial foreclosure a debt collector.
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4.9K1Laws In TexasSorrels Law Violates Email CAN-SPAM Act. Secondly, Did Abraham Watkins Approve Use of Their Client List?
A former client of Abraham Watkins forwarded a copy of an ’email blast’ which they received from Randy Sorrels and Alexandra L....
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2.1KCFPBCalifornia Wants its Own CFPB
California is planning to replicate on a state level what the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created to be, branding it the...
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1.9KCFPBCFPB Issues Statement to Define “Abusive” Acts or Practices
The consumer watchdog agency, the CFPB, has power to prohibit consumer-finance practices that are “abusive”. This is new in consumer protection laws.
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2.0KAppellate CircuitDOJ Wants the Supreme Court to Issue an Advisory Opinion re CFPB’s Constitutionality
Paul Clement said, the government is not asking the Supreme Court to resolve a live dispute. Instead, he said, DOJ wants the...
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2.1KCFPBCFPB’s former Director’s Tell All Book Explains Why OCWEN is Too Important to the Trump Cabinet and Will Continue to Steal Homes from the People
Yet the court did reject our judgment that lucrative market share is a ‘thing of value,’ holding that PHH could not be...
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2.1KAppellate CircuitBill Barr and the DOJ Does a U-Turn in the Selia Law v. CFPB Case Before the US Supreme Court
The Trump administration believes that the bureau’s lone director is unconstitutionally shielded from accountability to the president, yet the Justice Department’s final...
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2.2KAppellate CircuitKirkland’s Paul Clement Submits His Amicus Brief and Argues CFPB is Constitutional
A leading conservative U.S. Supreme Court advocate on Wednesday urged the justices to uphold the single-director independent design of the Consumer Financial...
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CFPB v NY State Department of Financial Services (DFS) and Leandra English
Leandra English: Not since the impacts of the 2008 financial crisis were realized has the need for government action on consumer protection...
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1.6KCFPBCFPB is Ramping Up its Anti-Consumer Policy in 2020 as Instructed by Trumps “Pro-Foreclosure” Cabinet
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is ramping up its Anti-Consumer Policy in 2020 under Kraninger and Mulvaney as Instructed by Trumps...
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1.2KCFPBCFPB Picks Fabulous Four to Federal Consumer Law Taskforce
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today announced four members who will serve on the Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law.
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2.1KAppellate CircuitA Consumer Protection Defense Lawyer Weighs in on the CFPB v Selia Law Case before the US Supreme Court
DiResta: I suspect that SCOTUS will, in fact, find the structure unconstitutional on the basis of the separation of powers. But I...
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6.2K10NewsIf The Courts Have a Berkshire Hathaway, It’s The Cost to Be Noticed at the US Supreme Court. It’s Probable You Could Grab a Breakfast Coffee with Warren Buffett for Less
The costs for writing a petition often can range from $150,000 to $200,000, according to one top firm with a Supreme Court...
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2.1KLaws In TexasThe Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Leads the Charge by Overruling Its Own Precedent
Stare decisis cannot justify adherence to an approach that Supreme Court precedent forecloses. Accordingly, we overrule Amy Travel. The decision by the...
