This brief argues the Fair Credit Reporting Act’s (FCRA) text and structure, as well as its legislative history, clearly indicate that Congress did not intend to enact a sweeping prohibition against all state regulation of the contents of a consumer report.
NCLC, along with Professor Craig Cowie from the University of Montana Law School and the legal clinics at Berkeley, Yale, and West Virginia University Law Schools, filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of the respondent (FTC) asserting the district court’s exercise of its power to award accounting remedies under Section 13(b) of the Federal Trade Commission Act, 15 U.S.C. 53(b)(“Section 13(b)”), is consistent with longstanding notions of a court acting in equity to do “complete justice.”
Amicus Brief of Center for Responsible Lending et al in opposition to Demurrer in Opportunity Financial v. CA Dept. of Financial Protection and Innovation
The FCRA provides three core rights that allow consumers to ensure that information contained in consumer reports is accurate: (1) a consumer must be informed when a consumer report is used against them; (2) a consumer must be allowed to see what information their file contains; and (3) consumers have the right to dispute inaccurate…
Brief of the ACLU, ACLU of New Jersey, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, National Community Reinvestment Coalition, National Consumer Law Center, National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, National Housing Law Project, Public Justice, P.C., and the National Women’s Law Center in support of Respondents.
Brief of National Consumer Law Center, Consumer Federation of America, and National Association of Consumer Advocates in support of Appellee and urging Affirmance.
Amicus Brief of the National Consumer Law Center, Legal Aid Justice Center, Public Citizen, Consumer Action, Equal Justice Society, Impact Fund, Secure Justice, Media Alliance, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, and New Economy Project in support of the Plaintiffs.
NCLC coordinated efforts in this FDCPA case to file an amicus brief prepared by Dick Rubin and Deepak Gupta that also was joined by Public Good and NACA. The issues presented are (1) Whether special counsel – lawyers appointed by the Attorney General to undertake his duty to collect debts owed to the state –…
Motion of Consumer Federation of America, Electronic Privacy Information Center, National Association of Consumer Advocates, and National Consumer Law Center for leave to file amicus brief in support of the plaintiff.
Amicus Brief of National Consumer Law Center, National Association of Consumer Advocates, Tzedek DC, The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, and Civil Justice in the U.S. Supreme Court case, Henson v. Santander.