On March 7, 2025, the CPPA finalized a Stipulated Order against an automobile manufacturer (the "Company") alleging multiple violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") …
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
A rule governing Unfair and Deceptive Fees (940 CMR 38.00) published March 3 by the Massachusetts Attorney General sets new Total Price disclosure obligations in marketing and sales for a wide set of covered businesses,…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Real Estate - Residential
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior months covered during the February 2025 webinar…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
On December 19, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission announced a proposed $20 million settlement with Leader Automotive Group and its parent company, AutoCanada, to resolve claims brought by the FTC and the State of Illinois…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection
On January 24, 2025, three days before the Federal Communications Commission's new Telephone Consumer Protection Act "one-to-one" consent standard was due to take effect, the FCC issued an order postponing the standard's…
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/ Administrative Law, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection
On February 11, 2025, the Supreme Court of New York, Nassau County, ordered a hearing on whether a financing contract between Square Funding LLC and Walsh Roofing Services of Tampa Bay, LLC, was a "merchant cash advance"…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" covered during the January 2025 webinar…
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/ Civil Remedies, Constitutional Law, Finance & Banking, Privacy, Consumer Protection
In the last few years, state legislatures have enacted legislation to curtail online bank lending in response to advocacy efforts by consumer activists.
Such programs, in which nonbank financial technology companies partner…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior months covered during the December 2024 webinar…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking, Indigenous Peoples
The future of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — and federal enforcement of consumer financial laws more generally — is uncertain. The Trump administration has ordered the CFPB to freeze all enforcement activity, along…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2024 applicable to companies in FinTech. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was on a tear in the months leading up to the election and the inauguration of…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology
In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2024 applicable to debt collection practices. Like 2023, the theme of 2024 was medical debt collection…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2024 applicable to the mortgage industry. There was also a flurry of last-minute action by the CFPB in the mortgage space in the waning days of the Biden…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking, Real Estate - Residential
Unlike most items of personal property, a motor vehicle usually has a certificate of title. We all know that the point of a vehicle title is to show who owns the vehicle and who (if anyone) has a lien on it…
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/ Administrative Law, Bankruptcy
On January 16, 2025, Yellowstone Capital and other entities, along with Yellowstone officers Isaac Stern and Jeffrey Reece, settled claims by New York Attorney General Letitia James that Yellowstone and the other entities…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking
