Consumer guardrail facing cuts waits on court decision

An appeals court will decide if further cuts can be made to the CFPB, a key agency tasked with protecting consumers ...

County doesn’t need to add more consumer protection bureaucrats

The proposal by San Diego County Supervisor Terra Lawson-Remer to create a new county consumer protection unit is a ...

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 ...

‘I don’t think this is the right thing to do’: Bid for new consumer-protection unit prompts turf war with DA

If Board of Supervisors Chair Terra Lawson-Remer has her way, San Diego County could tap a more than $200 million pool of money to set up a new team of lawyers to take on consumer litigation. District ...
WSKG

1 year into Trump's second term, a consumer watchdog agency is 'hanging by a thread'

The Trump administration has ordered work stoppages and layoffs and has tried cutting off funding to effectively dismantle ...
Techlicious

Wire Transfer Scams Reveal a Dangerous Gap in Consumer Protection

Wire fraud losses often aren’t protected by the FDIC or the Electronic Funds Transfer Act. Here’s what banks cover, what they ...

US proposes to ease airline penalties for consumer protection violations

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Transportation Department is proposing to revise its guidance to deemphasize imposing civil fines on airlines that violate consumer ...
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 ...

Mamdani’s Consumer Protection Commissioner Vows More Aggressive Action

I want to be very public that there’s a new cop on the beat,” said Samuel Levine, the new commissioner of New York City’s ...
The National Law Review

Distinguishing Deceptive Trade Practices From Negligent Care: Exploring the Boundaries Between Consumer Protection and Medical Malpractice Claims

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