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With Laws for Autonomous Cars, It's Pedal to the Metal

America's race to put "self-driving" cars on the road is expected to accelerate in 2017 as more state and federal regulators come out with rules governing their testing and operation. Industry lawyers should get in the driver's seat.
3 minute read

National Law Journal

How a Prepaid Card Company Emerged as a 'Major Opponent' to CFPB

Netspend and its parent company Total System Services have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying on prepaid card rules and other regulatory matters. The two companies are not backing down. Netspend is pushing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to delay its new rule, and on Capitol Hill, Total System Services is jumping into an effort, sponsored by Republican lawmakers, to tear up the new regulation.
15 minute read

Daily Report Online

How a Georgia Company Emerged as a 'Major Opponent' to CFPB

Netspend and its parent company Total System Services have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying on prepaid card rules and other regulatory matters. The two companies are not backing down. Netspend is pushing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to delay its new rule, and on Capitol Hill, Total System Services is jumping into an effort, sponsored by Republican lawmakers, to tear up the new regulation.
14 minute read

National Law Journal

How a Prepaid Card Company Emerged as a 'Major Opponent' to CFPB

Netspend and its parent company Total System Services have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying on prepaid card rules and other regulatory matters. The two companies are not backing down. Netspend is pushing the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to delay its new rule, and on Capitol Hill, Total System Services is jumping into an effort, sponsored by Republican lawmakers, to tear up the new regulation.
15 minute read

National Law Journal

CFPB Sues Ohio Law Firm Over Debt-Collection Practices

For the second time this year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has accused a law firm of using overly aggressive debt collection tactics.
9 minute read

National Law Journal

CFPB Sues Ohio Law Firm Over Debt-Collection Practices

For the second time this year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has accused a law firm of using overly aggressive debt collection tactics.
4 minute read

The Recorder

For Trump U Plaintiffs Lawyers, Unusual Path to 'Extraordinary' $25M Settlement

Plaintiffs lawyers from Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd discuss the road to the settlement they reached with Trump U.
17 minute read

The American Lawyer

For Trump U Plaintiffs Lawyers, Unusual Path to 'Extraordinary' $25M Settlement

Plaintiffs lawyers from Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd discuss the road to the settlement they reached with Trump U.
5 minute read

National Law Journal

CFPB Faces 'Rock and a Hard Place' in Pushing Arbitration Rule

The question hanging over the CFPB's arbitration rule—a proposal that drew tens of thousands of comments from consumer and business advocates—is less now about the finer points of the final rule than about whether the regulations will ever see the light of day at all. For the agency, the threat of a congressional override is not abstract. Republican lawmakers in the House and Senate proposed bills to tear up the CFPB's prepaid card rule.
17 minute read

National Law Journal

United Passenger Has 'Every Right to Bring Legal Action'

United Airlines' reputation has taken a bruising since Sunday, when police forcibly removed a passenger from a flight in Chicago that the company initially said was overbooked. But will the airline face legal challenges as a result of the incident?
9 minute read

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