We have posted several new topics to the Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor blog throughout the month of June. To read further, click on the titles below:

Featured Posts / Client Alerts

California Passes Sweeping Privacy Changes

Third Circuit Applies ACA Int'l v. FCC to Definition of ATDS and Grants Summary Judgment in Favor of Defendant in TCPA Claim

Jury in West Virginia Returns Verdict for Defendant Lender and Loan Servicer on All Counts

Kathy Who? Permanent Director of the CFPB Nominated by President Trump

Ninth Circuit Rules CRA Cannot be Held Liable Under FCRA for Customer's Misuse of Information

Background Screening

St. Louis County Enacts "Ban-the-Box" Law for Government Positions

Consumer Reporting Agency Can't Snuff Out Adverse Action Claim at Pleadings Stage

Credit Reporting & Data Brokers

Not Your Average Privacy Law—Vermont Enacts Nation's Most Expansive Data Broker Legislation

FTC Highlights New Federal Law Allowing for Free Credit Freezes

Debt Buyers and Collectors

Man Bites Dog: Consumer Attorneys Required to Pay Defendant

Winter is Here – FTC's "Operation Game of Loans" Leads to $12 Million Judgment Against Student Loan Debt Relief Company

DOE Plans to Stop Using Private Debt Collectors

State Attorneys General, CFPB, & FTC

Not Quite Done: A CFPB Advisory Body Falls Taking Stock of Virginia's Newly-Created Office of the Qualified Education Loan Ombudsman

The Short and Active Life of the CFPB's Doomed Office of Students and Young Consumers

Student Lending

Latest Student Loan Data Paints a Grim Picture: What (Some) Employers and (Some) Schools Are Doing to Help Mitigate the Nation's Student Loan Problem

Court Condemns DOE's Approach to Student Loan Forgiveness for Corinthian Alums—for Now

Events

Join Us on July 16-18th for the 30th National Advance Forum on Consumer Finance Class Actions and Government Enforcement

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