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05.24.18

App Maker Pays $100K to Settle COPPA Action

To resolve allegations of Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) violations, a Chinese software and consumer electronics company agreed to pay the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office $100,000 and change its business practices.


05.24.18

FTC Settles Sound Amplifier False Advertising Claims

Claims for a sound amplifier were too loud for the Federal Trade Commission, which settled charges of deceptive advertising in violation of Section 5 of the FTC Act with the Florida-based entities that manufactured the product and the entities’ owner.


05.24.18

Trump Signs Partial Dodd-Frank Rollback into Law

With the long-awaited passage of Senate Bill 2155 by the House of Representatives on Tuesday, and the President’s signature two days later, financial institutions are beginning to breathe a major sigh of relief.


05.24.18

Georgia Supremes Debate Bank Director Liability

May bank directors and officers be held jointly and severally liable for negligence in a tort action challenging their decision making process?


05.24.18

Fintech Developments: FTC, FDIC, OCC and More

Fintech developments continue to unfold, with ongoing workshops and forums, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. remarks from its chair, another dismissal in the challenge to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) proposal to issue fintech charters, and a new bill in the New York ...


05.24.18

State AGs Continue to Supplant Weakened CFPB on Enforcement

No CFPB, no problem?


05.24.18

DOJ Settles Obama-Era Redlining Case Against Community Bank

A Minnesota community bank accused of redlining reached a deal with the Department of Justice (DOJ) with a promise to expand its presence and outreach in minority neighborhoods but pay no civil penalties.


05.24.18

Congress Tosses (Another) CFPB Rule While Constitutionality Battle Continues

In another use of the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to repeal a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) rule, lawmakers did away with the Bureau’s Bulletin 2013-02, negating guidance on indirect automobile financing.


05.22.18

America’s Opioid Crisis

The deaths caused by opioids in 2016 exceeded the total deaths in any single year from car accidents, gun violence and even HIV/AIDS at the height of that epidemic.


05.22.18

Healthcare Litigation 2018: Conscience Rights and Civil Rights

The free exercise clause is found in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights and provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”