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CFPB takes on 'risky' loans but won't tell industry what that means
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A federal agency tasked with regulating lenders refuses to actually explain its rules, causing uncertainty that can choke consumers' access to credit.
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Lina Khan's FTC is bending federal law to her whims, Amazon says as it demands documents
SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) - Amazon is hoping to prove the current regime at the Federal Trade Commission is distorting federal law without warning and wants a judge's help.
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Company losing clients thanks to Labor Dept. probe now hopes for help from district judge
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - A staffing company that claims its business could be ruined by a federal labor investigation failed to make its case, a magistrate judge has written, adding it should pay the Department of Labor's costs.
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FAA still fighting lawsuit over test that rewarded bad science grades
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The Federal Aviation Administration must defend itself against a long-running class action over a discarded test for air traffic controllers that gave higher scores to applicants who said science was their worst grade in high school than if they reported previous experience in an air-traffic related job.
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The Taxpayers Protection Alliance Foundation announces new platform intended to track 'overreach' of CFPB
The Taxpayers Protection Alliance Foundation (TPAF) has launched CFPB Mission Creep, a platform created to inform consumers on the level of "overreach" from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
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Discrimination case turns tables on CFPB, leads to $6 million settlement
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A federal agency that often pursues discrimination claims against businesses will pay $6 million to resolve a class action lawsuit that alleges minority and female employees are treated worse than white males.
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Texas can thank Republicans for home-court advantage in Google antitrust trial
AUSTIN, Texas (Legal Newsline) - A three-word change to federal law pushed by Republicans in Congress has ensured that the State of Texas will be in friendly territory when it faces off against Google in a multistate antitrust case scheduled to begin trial next year.
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Immigrant Rights Center: 'Not that big of a deal' if you lie about identity when seeking to sue employer
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - The Michigan Immigrant Rights Center intake operator told a caller identifying as an illegal immigrant that it's "not that big of a deal" if they've previously lied about their identity and status when seeking legal damages from an employer.
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Goitein warns of proposed Section 702 expansion: 'What it does in practice is just massively expand the universe of companies that can be forced to assist the government in conducting surveillance'
The U.S. House of Representatives has postponed voting on two contentious surveillance bills that sought to reform and reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
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The FTC is attacking the 'very essence of competition,' according to Amazon
SEATTLE (Legal Newsline) - The Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust suit against Amazon attacks sales practices that are the “very essence of competition,” the online retailer said in a motion to dismiss the government’s case.
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Judge to weigh whether Labor Dept.'s investigation goes too far, as company already buckling underneath it
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - A federal magistrate judge on Wednesday will hear arguments that the Department of Labor is ruining a Michigan-based company's business, in pursuit of a child labor investigation that has yielded no charges so far.
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Overpriced monopoly or good deal? Even FTC chief Khan buys diapers at Amazon
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, in a recent interview, acknowledged that even she buys baby diapers on Amazon.
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Company being crushed under weight of feds' child labor probe, despite no charges
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (Legal Newsline) - A company in the crosshairs of a child labor investigation is hoping a federal court will help protect its reputation as clients flee, while noting a "whistleblower" who kickstarted the probe lied about her age at least once.
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EPA finalizes PFAS reporting rules
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last month finished new rules for businesses that have manufactured products with chemicals known as PFAS in them.
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Wrongful death suit over undocumented immigrant's fall off border wall faces dismissal motion
SAN DIEGO (Legal Newsline) - The United States is fighting a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the widow of an undocumented immigrant who fell off a border wall in California.
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Computer & Communications Industry Association president says government has failed to deliver evidence of antitrust harm in Google Search case
Matt Shruers, president of the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA), has criticized the U.S. government's antitrust lawsuit against Google, stating that the government is trying to push consumers towards a product they prefer less than Google Search simply because the government believes Google is too big. Shruers made these comments amidst the ongoing legal battle over Google's search engine market dominance.
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Judge rejects Google's bias claims in DOJ's antitrust case
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Legal Newsline) - A Virginia federal judge has rejected Google's pleas to probe what it called a "deep-seated bias" from a federal prosecutor who made his living in private practice trying to punish the company.
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Lawyers, guns and money: The anatomy of a mass tort
Tens of thousands of lawsuits have their origins in a man once arrested after firing a gun into the ceiling of his Yale University frat house and threatening a visitor, resulting in police discovering an illegal arsenal of weapons and explosives that earned him a one-year prison sentence.
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Activists, hedge funds in crosshairs as House committee looks at litigation finance
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A congressional committee will hear testimony today on how hedge funds and activists are financing litigation for private profit and political goals Republicans say are “otherwise unattainable through the legislative process.”
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'Deep-seated bias': Google attacks DOJ prosecutor's motives in antitrust case
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Legal Newsline) - Google is accusing the Department of Justice of pushing antitrust litigation on behalf of federal agencies that do not want it, with the goal of helping private companies with connections to Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter.