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Friday, March 29, 2024

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Federal Gov

CFPB defeats challenges, free to take on student loan trusts

By John O'Brien |
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.

Federal Gov

EPA sidesteps challenge to favorable scientists reviewing its formaldehyde study

By John O'Brien |
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.

Federal Gov

House members criticize new rules from 'rogue' federal agency, warn of harm to consumers

By John O'Brien |
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.

Federal Gov

CFPB takes on 'risky' loans but won't tell industry what that means

By John O'Brien |
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.

Federal Gov

Lina Khan's FTC is bending federal law to her whims, Amazon says as it demands documents

By John O'Brien |
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.

Federal Gov

Company losing clients thanks to Labor Dept. probe now hopes for help from district judge

By John O'Brien |
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.

Federal Gov

FAA still fighting lawsuit over test that rewarded bad science grades

By Daniel Fisher |
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.

Federal Gov

The Taxpayers Protection Alliance Foundation announces new platform intended to track 'overreach' of CFPB

By Legal Newsline |
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).

Federal Gov

Discrimination case turns tables on CFPB, leads to $6 million settlement

By John O'Brien |
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.

Federal Gov

Texas can thank Republicans for home-court advantage in Google antitrust trial

By Daniel Fisher |
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.

Federal Gov

Immigrant Rights Center: 'Not that big of a deal' if you lie about identity when seeking to sue employer

By Record Reports |
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.

Federal Gov

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'

By Kyle Barnett |
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).

Federal Gov

The FTC is attacking the 'very essence of competition,' according to Amazon

By Daniel Fisher |
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.

Federal Gov

Judge to weigh whether Labor Dept.'s investigation goes too far, as company already buckling underneath it

By John O'Brien |
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.

Federal Gov

Overpriced monopoly or good deal? Even FTC chief Khan buys diapers at Amazon

By Daniel Fisher |
WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) - Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan, in a recent interview, acknowledged that even she buys baby diapers on Amazon.

Federal Gov

Company being crushed under weight of feds' child labor probe, despite no charges

By John O'Brien |
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.

Federal Gov

EPA finalizes PFAS reporting rules

By John O'Brien |
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.

Federal Gov

Wrongful death suit over undocumented immigrant's fall off border wall faces dismissal motion

By John O'Brien |
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.

Federal Gov

Computer & Communications Industry Association president says government has failed to deliver evidence of antitrust harm in Google Search case

By Legal Newsline |
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.

Federal Gov

Judge rejects Google's bias claims in DOJ's antitrust case

By John O'Brien |
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.