In CFPB news, Mick Mulvaney's efforts to reshape the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau continue apace with more requests for information and improvements to the mortgage servicing rule. Finally, a recent California decision affirms the Bureau's right to properly tailored civil monetary penalties and injunctive relief, albeit in the more limited forms imposed earlier by the […]
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Two business owners, who claimed that they went ahead and constructed a supermarket with their own cash based on an oral assurance by the then Chief Executive of GBTI that the financial institution would have granted them a loan, have lost a High Court case and now have to repay the bank more than $ […]
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Dec. 28, 2017 – Legendary KPFA Radio , 94.1 FM, in Berkeley has reportedly been placed at risk due to $ 1.8 million awarded in a summary judgment to Empire State Realty Trust, Inc. . Additionally, attorney's fees against the Pacifica Foundation and WBAI Radio in New York, KPFA's sister station in the Pacifica network, […]
A judgment that resolved a consumer-fraud lawsuit against an attorney cannot be used against him in a pending attorney-disciplinary case, the Arizona Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. The 6-to-1 decision was made in an appeal filed on behalf of attorney Brent Randall Phillips, who was accused in a lawsuit filed by the state of using fraudulent […]
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The ABA filed a motion for summary judgment on Wednesday in its lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education for its decision to drop some lawyers from the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. ABA Journal Daily News
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