Consumer Law

Consumer Law Wedding Toast

By Jeff Sovern

by Jeff Sovern

Recently I was asked to speak briefly at an upcoming wedding but was admonished not to mention consumer law.  So that made me wonder: what would a consumer law wedding toast look like?  My effort follows:

The groom is a reporter, and so can be analogized to the Truth in Lending Act (TILA), a disclosure statute.  The bride is a doctor who travels to Africa regularly to provide services to underserved patients, analogous to the Community Revinvestment Act (CRA), which seeks to insure that underserved consumers are provided with access to loans.  The CRA is unusual among consumer lending statutes in that it, unlike TILA, is not included within the umbrella Consumer Credit Protection Act.  But now the CRA and TILA will be brought together!

Maybe the original plan to stay away from consumer law was a good one.

Full post as published by CL&P Blog on May 15, 2009 (boomark / email).