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Republicans vote to rein in 'rogue' CFPB
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Following a hearing in which Republicans criticized what they feel is overreach by a federal agency, a House committee last week voted to repeal limits credit card companies can charge for late fees.
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Forge Industrial Staffing: the DOL’s demand for client information is a ‘raw exercise of the government’s coercive power’
Forge Industrial Staffing has expressed strong opposition to the Department of Labor's (DOL) investigation into its hiring practices, describing it as "a raw exercise of the government's coercive power." The company is contesting a magistrate judge's recommendation that it should surrender its clients' information to the DOL. This statement was part of Forge's court filing on March 18.
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FTC's 'gerrymandered' market claims at heart of Meta lawsuit
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust lawsuits against Amazon and Facebook owner Meta share one essential – and both companies say, legally shaky – claim: That they monopolized their “relevant markets.”
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Settlement addresses ATV use at Glen Canyon
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - New rules for all-terrain vehicles at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area are coming from the National Parks Service.
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EPA's new PFAS rules called unscientific, unacceptable
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - The federal government has finally completed its assessment of chemicals known as PFAS, pushing forward regulations that one group calls "rushed" and "unscientific."
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Sen. Scott: 'Now is the wrong time to play political games that limit access to credit’
U.S. Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution on April 8 to overturn the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) rule limiting credit card “late fees.”
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CFPB defeats challenges, free to take on student loan trusts
PHILADELPHIA (Legal Newsline) - A federal appeals court will not stand in the way of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as it targets student loan trusts.
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EPA sidesteps challenge to favorable scientists reviewing its formaldehyde study
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - A federal judge has rejected calls to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from having its work reviewed by a favorable, supposedly independent panel to boost its effort to regulate formaldehyde.
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House members criticize new rules from 'rogue' federal agency, warn of harm to consumers
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Republicans in Congress are growing frustrated with the actions of a "rogue" federal agency that is passing new rules for financial institutions without the approval of lawmakers.
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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.