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Caveat Emptor ranked #50 out of the top legal blogs

January 23, 2009

Bob Ambrogi just posted a link to the Avvo Blog’s list of the top 300 legal blogs on the internet. Caveat Emptor made it to #50 as of today. Looking good!

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Next week: Bankruptcy Week!

September 26, 2008

Brad Perri, a bankruptcy attorney in Minnesota, will be joining us as a guest editor for the next two weeks
Bankruptcy is kind of the granddaddy of all consumer protection laws, but we don’t talk about it enough here, since none of the regular editors are bankruptcy lawyers.
Before bankruptcy, debtors had to work off their debt [...]

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5 Legal Tips for Peace of Mind

September 2, 2008

5 Legal Tips for Peace of Mind | Zen Habits

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Most People Can Still File Chapter 7 bankruptcies

July 29, 2008

Most People Can Still File Chapter 7 bankruptcies | Bankruptcy and Consumer Information

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California Foreclosure Law Passed

July 10, 2008

“The thrust of the law is to require mortgage servicers to exhaust all avenues in order to contact borrowers and negotiate modified terms before foreclosing. It also provides limited protections for tenants affected by landlords’ foreclosures and imposes duties on foreclosing servicers to maintain properties.” California Foreclosure Law Passed | Consumer Law & Policy

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Angry Consumers Flood Federal Reserve Board with Complaints

July 1, 2008

Press release from Americans for Fairness in Lending. Full release after the jump (it is not yet up on AFFIL’s website, so I cannot link to it).

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Sign up for your TransUnion class action settlement benefits

June 30, 2008

While we are on the subject of keeping track of your credit score, as a result of a bunch of class action lawsuits against TransUnion, virtually anyone who has had a credit card since 1987 can select from several settlement options, including up to nine months of enhanced credit monitoring.
First, the settlement applies to “[a]ll [...]

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Hundreds of brokers netted in FBI sweep

June 19, 2008

Hundreds of brokers netted in FBI sweep Arrests include two former Bear fund execs charged with fraud | MSNBC

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Can governments copyright laws? Should they?

June 19, 2008

Can governments copyright laws? Should they? | BoingBoing

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Minnesota has less than half as many mortgage originators this year. Good.

June 6, 2008

In response to the tanking housing market, Minnesota passed some pretty strong mortgage industry regulation last year. Alex Stenback points to an article in the Strib reporting that there are now less than half as many mortgage originators as last year. And 50 mortgage brokers surrendered their licenses, as well.
More than 50 Minnesota mortgage brokers [...]

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Governor Tim Pawlenty loves the homeless so much he wants more of them

May 30, 2008

The Minnesota legislature put the Subprime Borrower Relief Act on Governor Pawlenty’s desk last week. The Act would have put Minnesota home foreclosures on hold for a year to give homeowners a chance to sell, refinance, or negotiate a workout plan with their lenders.
It was, in all respects, a reasonable and fair compromise that would [...]

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Monster Cable sues another little guy—but this one will not be pushed around

April 15, 2008

Monster Cable is—forgive me—a monstrous company. It preys on small companies and any company with the name “monster” in its title, regardless whether a consumer would be likely to confuse Monster Cable’s unnecessarily-expensive cables with, say, a show about cars or vintage clothing.
Monster Cable seems to have sued as many companies as it has distributors [...]

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Minnesota lawmakers consider three foreclosure bills

March 3, 2008

The proposed bills would work together to address the deepening foreclosure crisis in Minnesota. From the StarTribune:

One would prod homeowners facing foreclosure to get help, even forwarding their phone numbers to foreclosure prevention counselors. It would also give tenants notice of pending foreclosures and spell out the terms for owners to get their homes back [...]

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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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Minnlawpedia, a user-generated repository of Minnesota law and procedure for the non-lawyer

February 20, 2008

The legal system and Web 2.0 still seem largely unaware of one another, although that is starting to change as lawyers and consumers make inreasing use of sites like Avvo, Facebook, Wikipediaand mypractice to find lawyers, to network, and to get information about the law.
With that in mind, I created Minnlawpedia, a wiki where [...]

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Quit Claim: scams in prime time.

February 17, 2008

You know that a new topic has hit the big time when Law & Order gets hold of it. In the lead-up to the settlement of the writers strike, NBC threw their hat into the ring concerning the current “ripped from the headlines” plot on Law & Order. The episode entitled Quit Claim [...]

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“Renting and the Law” column in the Star Tribune

December 26, 2007

I just ran across Kelly Klein’s “Renting and the Law” column at the Star Tribune.
Klein does a good job of sitting on the fence and offering a fairly neutral evaluation of landlord-tenant issues.
In her December 13th column, Klein discussed the importance of communication and written agreements (and side agreements). In her December 21st column, she [...]

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