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NCLC Digital Library: Tips on Handling Attorney Fee Hearings

September 13, 2022

This article provides practice pointers on preparing for and conducting an attorney fee hearing. The tips are based on the author’s forty-four years of trial experience handling exclusively consumer law cases. The article focuses on steps to take well before the hearing, including proper completion of time records; preparation for the hearing, including a discussion…

More than 100 Consumer, Labor and Civil Rights Groups Call on CFPB to Take Action on Banking Fraud and Forced Arbitration

September 14, 2022

WASHINGTON – Over 100 consumer, civil rights, and labor groups today called on CFPB Director Rohit Chopra to exercise the agency’s authority to limit forced arbitration clauses, which are commonly buried in the fine print of consumer financial contracts to eliminate the rights of customers seeking accountability when scammed, cheated, or defrauded by big banks.…

Op-Ed in The Hill: Regulators can save lives by protecting medically vulnerable utility users

September 10, 2022

In an op-ed appearing in The Hill on September 10, 2022, Samuel Whillans, co-director of the Yale Environmental Protection Clinic at Yale Law School and a fellow at the Natural Resources Defense Council, Dr. Peter Kahn is a fellow in the Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, and…

Consumer Advocate Groups Call On FDIC To Reject Ford Credit’s ILC Charter Application

August 25, 2022

Ford Motor Company should be denied deposit insurance for its proposed new Ford Credit industrial loan company charter, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, the National Consumer Law Center, Americans for Financial Reform Education Fund, and the Center for Responsible Lending wrote to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation on Wednesday.

FCC Must Eliminate Financial Incentives, Take Aggressive Action to Stop Dangerous Robocalls

August 18, 2022

August 18, 2022 WASHINGTON – The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) must take swift action to stop telephone service providers from making money by transmitting illegal robocalls to U.S. telephone numbers, according to the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC). NCLC and EPIC submitted comments in response to the FCC’s…

New Report Finds Incarcerated Federal Student Loan Borrowers Systematically Denied Access to Student Loan Relief

July 27, 2022

July 27, 2022 Impossibility of Navigating Student Loan System While Behind Bars Poses Massive Risks to Administration’s Recent Pell and Fresh Start Proposals WASHINGTON — Today, the Student Borrower Protection Center and National Consumer Law Center released a first-of-its-kind report examining the intersection of two social justice crises long in the making—the student loan debt…

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