Legal Research

CFPB: What Do Republicans Want
On July 18, 2011, the House passed legislation that would curtail the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Republicans are expected to refuse to confirm a Director for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) without certain key changes: Place the CFPB...

A primer on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
Aside from creating a lot of controversy, President Obama?s recess appointment of Richard Cordray as the first director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) left many people asking: What exactly is the CFPB and what does it do?InhouseBlog...

CONSUMER FINANCIAL PROTECTION BUREAU BEGINS TAKING WHISTLEBLOWER TIPS
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently announced several ways that whistleblowers can alert the Bureau to potential violations of federal consumer financial laws. The whistleblower channels announced include an email address, whistleblower@cfpb...

CFPB Monitors Absurd Attack on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is charged with eliminating fraud and deceptive practices by lenders. This has Wall Street worried, since it would much rather continue with business as usual, which depends on a fair amount of fraud and deception...

New Director Appointed to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
President Obama announced the recent appointment Richard Cordray as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau(CFPB). Mr. Cordray was a former Ohio attorney general, who worked with Elizabeth Warren to design the CFPB, an agency created as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street financial reform bill...

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau hosts webinar to demo new website tools
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is the first federal agency devoted to consumer protection in the financial marketplace. Since we officially opened for business in July 2011, we?ve been constantly building easy-to-use web tools to help consumers...

Truth In Lending Act
Consumer Loans and Consumer Credit Protection Act

Privacy Protection Act 42 USC 21A
Federal Newsroom Law

Comcast Agrees Tentative $16 Million Settlement in Consumer File Sharing Class Action
Comcast Agrees Tentative $16 Million Settlement in Consumer File Sharing Class Action

Germantown Primary Care Associates, P.C.
Unlawfully collected fees refunded in Consumer Protection Act violation suit.

ValueClick
allegedly violated consumer protection laws by promising ‘free’ goods that where not actually free.

Hutchinson Oil
Over $75,000 settlement reached in consumer protection lawsuit.

School Misrepresentation
Lehigh Valley College agrees to pay $200,000 settlement for violating consumer protection laws.

Internet/Technology
involving cyber law, consumer protection, internet crime, internet fraud, online gambling, e-commerce.