Court of Appeal Sides with Consumer Watchdog and Coalition of Consumer Protection and Civil-Rights Organizations in Privacy and Access-to-Justice Case

Consumer Watchdog, working with a broad coalition of consumer protection and civil-rights organizations led by the UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice, welcomed today a published ...
JD Supra

State Privacy Laws Taking Effect in 2026

Though there remains no comprehensive nationwide, federal privacy law on the books, several states in the U.S. have passed their own privacy ...
National Mortgage Professional

CSBS, AARMR Challenge OCC Rule Targeting State Escrow Interest Laws

State banking and mortgage regulators are urging the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to withdraw proposed rules they say would improperly override state consumer protection laws and ...
ConsumerAffairs

MoneyGram paying $250,000 for consumer protection violations

• New York Attorney General Letitia James secured $250,000 from MoneyGram International for failing to follow consumer protection laws and jeopardizing customers' money transfers • The settlement ...
FingerLakes1.com

Legality and consumer risk: when enforcement targets suppliers, not users

Legality is most visible when a country restricts who may offer a service domestically, while leaving individual use largely unpoliced. Online gambling markets show this clearly: domestic law can ...
City & State New York

Here’s why you keep seeing Mamdani’s consumer protection commissioner everywhere

Just three weeks into Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration, the new commissioner of New York City’s Department of Consumer ...
Forbes

The CFPB Was A Mistake—Even Before It Abused Its Power

Last week I participated in the radio show On Point to discuss the legacy of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It turned out to be something a debate with Richard Cordray, the first director ...