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Show: results per page Sort by:  | SEC OKs Social Media for Company Announcements; Investors Must be Alerted
Loeb Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 9, 2013, previously published on April 2013 The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued a report concluding that social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, may constitute legitimate means for a reporting company to make public announcements in compliance with Regulation FD.
|  | CFPB Settles Allegations of Improper Payments by Mortgage Insurers
Michael W. Jahnke, Michael L. Mallow, Michael A. Thurman; Loeb & Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 22, 2013, previously published on April 2013 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it had settled enforcement actions against four insurance companies in connection with alleged improper payments between the insurance companies and mortgage lenders. While the companies - Genworth Mortgage Insurance Corp., United...
| | Revised Florida Sweepstakes Law Effective April 10, 2013
Loeb Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 22, 2013, previously published on April 2013 The State of Florida has amended its law governing games of chance (F.S. 849), revising certain provisions including those governing game promotions and sweepstakes run by retailers and consumer brands, among others. The amendments to section 849.094, which governs game promotions in connection...
| | Recently Enacted New York City Law Bars Discrimination Against the Unemployed
Loeb Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 22, 2013, previously published on April 2013 The New York City Council recently enacted a law, over Mayor Bloomberg's veto, that prohibits discrimination against the unemployed in New York City. Other jurisdictions - such as the District of Columbia, New Jersey and Oregon - also have laws prohibiting employers from discriminating against the...
| | CFPB Announces Plans to Hold Auto Lenders Liable for Discriminatory Loans
Michael L. Mallow, Michael A. Thurman; Loeb & Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 15, 2013, previously published on April 2013 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a guidance bulletin announcing that it will treat indirect auto lenders as creditors subject to the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA). The March 21 bulletin follows the CFPB's previous signals that it intended to pursue discrimination in the...
| | SEC Opens Door for Public Companies to Make Announcements Using Social Media
Loeb Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 15, 2013, previously published on April 2013 The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) released a Report of Investigation on April 2, 2013, that addresses whether public companies may use social media to make certain announcements.
| | Your Complaints Just Went Public! The CFPB Expands Online Access to Consumer Complaint Data
Michael L. Mallow, Michael A. Thurman; Loeb & Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article April 3, 2013, previously published on March 29, 2013 Keeping its promise to make consumer complaints available for all the consumer financial products and services it oversees, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau yesterday announced that it has added some 90,000 additional complaints about mortgages, bank accounts and services, student loans,...
| | High Court Rules Pre-Certification Damages Stipulation Cannot Defeat Federal Jurisdiction Arising Under the Class Action Fairness Act
Livia M. Kiser, Michael L. Mallow, Michael A. Thurman; Loeb & Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 28, 2013, previously published on March 2013 In a much-anticipated ruling that could significantly restrict the efforts of class action plaintiffs and their lawyers to avoid litigating in federal court, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that a named plaintiff cannot stipulate prior to class certification that the class will...
| | CFPB Proposes Rule to Supervise Largest Nonbank Student Loan Servicers
Michael L. Mallow, Michael A. Thurman; Loeb & Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 28, 2013, previously published on March 2013 The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has announced its intention to oversee the nation's largest nonbank loan servicers, which service more than one million accounts each year, in the higher education loan market. While the CFPB already supervises loan origination and larger debt collection...
| | CFTC's No-action Relief on Guarantor Swap Requirements Ends March 31, 2013
Kenneth D. Freeman, Bryan G. Petkanics, Anthony Pirraglia, Peter G. Seiden; Loeb & Loeb LLP;
Legal Alert/Article March 28, 2013, previously published on March 2013 The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 (the "Dodd-Frank Act") requires that swaps (as defined in 7 U.S.C. § 1a(47)) be entered into on designated contract markets unless the parties to the swap are all eligible contract participants ("ECPs")...
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