Consumer Law

Predatory Lending Association: dedicated to extracting maximum profit from the working poor
The website of the Predatory Lending Association* is chock-full of great information for payday lenders, such as racial profiling tools, tips on lending to members of the military (no, 20 payday loan stores by a military base are not too many), and a working poor finder, which uses Google Maps to help predatory lenders find [...

Predatory Lending: So Many Different Ways to Sue
From the featured article in the May issue of "Trial," the magazine of the American Association for Justice, "Predatory-lending litigation looms": Last year, 278 subprime-mortgage-related cases were filed in federal court--with the number in the second half of the year...

Fictional Web Site Illuminates the Sad Truth About Payday Loans
I recently ran across a very enlightening blog describing the activities of a fictional group called the Predatory Lending Association.  A tounge in cheek creation of a legitimate organization called the Center for Responsible Lending, the PLA web site includes the following mission statement: The Predatory Lending Association is dedicated to ...

CCELS releases report on predatory lending in Canada
The Canadian Centre for Elder Law (CCEL), a division of the British Columbia Law Institute (BCLI), has just released its Study Paper on Predatory Lending Issues in Canada. The subprime mortgage crisis in the United States has made the issue...

Lowry: What Is Predatory Lending
Predatory lenders arent the only ones to blame.

Predatory Lending and Older Homeowners
The Canadian Centre for Elder Law (CCEL), a division of the British Columbia Law Institute (BCLI), issued a media release on February 28, 2008 advising that it has just released its Study Paper on Predatory Lending Issues in Canada...

Reverse Mortgages
Consumer facts

Stock Splits and Reverse Stock Splits
How splits can affect stock value

Nevada Onion
Workers Injured, EPA Files Complaint

Lenders Fined
Ryland Group Inc. settles $370,000 questionable lending suit.

Chevy Chase Bank
lawsuit claims the bank is in violation of the Truth in Lending Act