Archive:May 2015

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Supreme Court Grants Cert. to Consider Whether Offer of Complete Relief Moots TCPA Class Action
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S.D.N.Y. Judge Denies Class Certification in Fair Housing Act Suit against Morgan Stanley
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Kristie Kully to speak at NBI Seminar: What the CFPB and FTC Need You to Know—RESPA/TILA, FDCPA and More
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Webinar: K&L Gates Social Media Series: Social Media Marketing — Advertising Laws and Other Considerations
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Proposed Arbitration Fairness Act Would Ban Pre-Dispute Arbitration Clauses in Consumer Contracts
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CFPB Releases its 2014 Fair Lending Report
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Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins: U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Whether Plaintiffs Have Standing to Assert a Statutory Violation without Alleging any Actual Harm

Supreme Court Grants Cert. to Consider Whether Offer of Complete Relief Moots TCPA Class Action

By: Andrew C. Glass, Joseph C. Wylie II, Gregory N. Blase, Jennifer J. Nagle, Eric W. Lee

The United States Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in a Telephone Consumer Protection Act class action challenging text messages which a U.S. Navy vendor sent to recruit new sailors. In Campbell-Ewald Company v. Gomez, No. 14-857, the Supreme Court will review (1) whether a defendant’s offer to provide complete relief as to individual claims deprives the plaintiff of Article III standing, and (2) whether such an offer can also prevent a putative class plaintiff from proceeding where no class has yet been certified.

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S.D.N.Y. Judge Denies Class Certification in Fair Housing Act Suit against Morgan Stanley

By: Andrew C. Glass, Roger L. Smerage, Eric W. Lee

The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York recently denied class certification in a Fair Housing Act disparate-impact case in which plaintiffs attempted to hold Morgan Stanley liable for investing in subprime mortgage loans that another entity originated. Adkins v. Morgan Stanley, No. 12-CV-7667, 2013 WL 3835198 (S.D.N.Y. May 14, 2013).

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Kristie Kully to speak at NBI Seminar: What the CFPB and FTC Need You to Know—RESPA/TILA, FDCPA and More

Kristie Kully will participate as a speaker in the National Business Institute Seminar: What the CFPB and FTC Need You to Know—RESPA/TILA, FDCPA, and More, May 14–15, 2014. Kristie will be speaking at the following sessions: “Loan Estimates Under the New Rules,” “Closing Disclosures—Changes You Need to Know,” and “Loan Originator Compensation: What You Need to Know—NOW.”

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Webinar: K&L Gates Social Media Series: Social Media Marketing — Advertising Laws and Other Considerations

Please join us for the third in a series of webinars focusing on the intersection of social medial, law, and business. This program is targeted to legal counsel or marketing personnel in businesses that want to engage consumers through social media platforms. It will focus on the regulatory considerations surrounding social media, and advertising and marketing laws, with an emphasis on FTC issues.

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Proposed Arbitration Fairness Act Would Ban Pre-Dispute Arbitration Clauses in Consumer Contracts

By: Andrew C. Glass, Robert W. Sparkes, III, Roger L. Smerage, Eric W. Lee

Two members of Congress are seeking to expand the reach of a federal ban on pre-dispute arbitration agreements to cover nearly all consumer contracts. The proposed legislation would have a widespread effect, barring the use of pre-dispute arbitration provisions in credit card agreements, auto loan agreements, wireless telephone service contracts, and many other types of consumer-facing agreements that often contain such provisions.

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CFPB Releases its 2014 Fair Lending Report

By: Melanie Brody, Anjali Garg

On April 28, the CFPB issued its third Fair Lending Report, highlighting fair lending developments from calendar year 2014. The CFPB reports that in 2014, its fair lending supervisory and public enforcement actions resulted in $224 million in remediation to approximately 303,000 consumers. The CFPB referred 15 matters to the Department of Justice in the areas of mortgage lending, auto finance, unsecured consumer lending and credit cards, and student lending. DOJ declined to open an independent investigation in five of those matters.

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Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins: U.S. Supreme Court to Consider Whether Plaintiffs Have Standing to Assert a Statutory Violation without Alleging any Actual Harm

By: Andrew C. Glass, Brian M. Forbes, Gregory N. Blase, Robert W. Sparkes, III, Roger L. Smerage, Eric W. Lee

The United States Supreme Court has granted certiorari to decide whether a statutory violation alone, unaccompanied by any actual harm to the plaintiff, is sufficient to establish Article III standing. See Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, No. 13-1339 (U.S. Apr. 27, 2015).

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