“Passing It Down:” An Interview with Shennan Kavanagh, NCLC’s Next Director of Litigation
Earlier this year, NCLC welcomed Shennan Kavanagh as our next Director of Litigation. She is co-leading NCLC’s Litigation Project alongside Stuart Rossman.
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Amicus Brief in Tyler v. Hennepin
NCLC joined an amicus brief prepared by AARP in support of the petitioner’s efforts to reverse a decision of the 8th Cir. Court of Appeals affirming a Minnesota law that provides that excess revenues collected through a real estate tax taking revert to the public use rather than being paid to the property owner. Other…
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Consumer Groups Urge Supreme Court to Uphold Constitutionality of the CFPB
The Fifth Circuit's decision in the case of CFPB vs. CFSA, if confirmed, would undermine the critical work of the CFPB.
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Amicus Brief in Greene v. Philip Morris
National Consumer Law Center brief urging the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to uphold the legislature’s decision to adopt a fixed 12 percent pre- and post-judgment statutory interest rate for tort claims is constitutional.
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Amicus Brief in Sequeira, et al. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security
NCLC joined an amicus brief with Public Counsel to assert that money transfer businesses are financial institutions covered by the RFPA, and therefore protect the financial records of remittance senders who rely on money transfer businesses for their transactions. The amicus brief provides the Court with background information and insight on remittances and their importance…
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Digital Library: The Latest Developments on Constitutionality of CFPB Regulations
The latest NCLC Digital Library article examines important developments at the Supreme Court, Second Circuit, and the district courts since the Fifth Circuit’s October ruling that the CFPB’s funding mechanism is unconstitutional and that a CFPB rule must thus be vacated. The article also offers updated litigation practice pointers for cases involving CFPB rules where defendants may challenge…
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Advocates Urge COPRAC to Move Swiftly on Critical Ethics Opinion
Worker and consumer rights advocates from California and across the country call on the California attorney regulation agency to act quickly to clarify that it is unethical for attorneys to encourage corporate clients to include illegal or unenforceable terms in fine-print contracts. On Friday, a coalition of worker and consumer advocates urged the California attorney…
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Digital Library: New Supreme Court Ruling–When Is a Bankruptcy Debtor on the Hook for Partner’s Fraud?
On February 22, the Supreme Court in Bartenwerfer v. Buckley, 2023 WL 2144417 (U.S. Feb. 22, 2023), held that a debt incurred by business partners and obtained by fraud may not be discharged in bankruptcy even when the debtor is an innocent partner who did not commit the fraud. One can expect bankruptcy creditors to try…
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Coalition Letter to COPRAC Regarding Draft Formal Opinion No. 19-0003
As organizations that advocate for workers and consumers, California Employment Lawyers Association, Economic Security Project Action, National Consumer Law Center, National Employment Law Project, Open Markets Institute, People’s Parity Project, Public Good Law Center, Public Justice, Student Borrower Protection Center, and Towards Justice write to urge the State Bar Standing Committee on Professional Responsibility and…
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Shennan Kavanagh to Join NCLC as Director of Litigation
BOSTON – The National Consumer Law Center is excited to announce that Shennan Kavanagh, the Chief of the Consumer Protection Division of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, will join NCLC as the next Director of Litigation on February 13. Kavanagh’s career has been devoted to helping low-income consumers in both private practice and in the…
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