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consumer protection

Funny or Die on the Need for a Consumer Financial Protection Agency

March 3, 2010

Funny or Die’s Presidential Reunion from Will Ferrell

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Minnesota Lawyer on anti-consumer attorney fee legislation

March 21, 2009

Michelle Lore at Minnesota Lawyer picked up on my post about Minnesota DFL’ers out to eviscerate consumer protection laws. She included quotes from several Minnesota attorneys, who point out that in addition to being a dumb idea, the bill attacks the idea of a “private attorney general.”
These statutes further the “private attorney general principle,” according [...]

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Attorney fee provisions about to be eviscerated

March 10, 2009

I met with Paul Thissen last Sunday, and he assured me that after doing further research into the bill he sponsored, he changed his mind and withdrew the bill. It is dead.
Minnesota DFL’ers are inexplicably out to eviscerate Minnesota consumer protection laws. Representative Paul Thissen (DFL), Representative Dave Olin (DFL), and Senator Linda Scheid (DFL) [...]

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Wall Street’s meltdown: deregulation and lack of consumer protection

September 17, 2008

The StarTribune has a commentary on the current turmoil in the financial markets. While the latter half of the commentary turns into an endorsement of Obama,* the first part identifies the cause clearly and concisely: “The banking and investment industries have been inadequately regulated, and consumer protections were diminished.”
All the fancy highly sophisticated financial products [...]

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Why the OCC Can’t Be Relied on for Consumer Protection

August 21, 2008

Why the OCC Can’t Be Relied on for Consumer Protection | Credit Slips

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Consumer Product Safety Bill Passes Congress

August 4, 2008

Consumer Product Safety Bill Passes Congress | Consumer Law & Policy

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Consumers protect yourselves

February 27, 2008

Caveat Emptor–buyer beware.
While it isn’t really the law of the land, the public is generally ignorant of the fact that it has rights and there are more than a few judges who are also clueless as to consumer rights, so that too often people get ripped off and abused simply because they don’t know.
A little [...]

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Consumer issues are not partisan

February 27, 2008

Consumer issues should not be “red state-blue state” issues. Everyone is a consumer. Republicans, Democrats, independents, Greens, Libertarians, anarchists . . . Everyone.
Debt collectors are not out to get Democrats, and mortgage brokers are not selling subprime loans only to Republicans. Payday lenders may be targeting evangelical Christians, but they are just as happy to [...]

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