Briefs and Comments

Over the holidays, the Center filed comments with the Consumer Protection Financial Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) advocating for the preservation and promotion of important consumer and civil rights.

First, the Center submitted a comment on behalf of nine organizations opposing the CFPB’s proposal to roll back fair lending protections that allow consumers to prove that a particular lending practice has...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In testimony before the D.C. Council’s Committee on Public Works and Operations today, two distinguished consumer policy professionals called on lawmakers to pass critical reforms to the District’s Consumer Protection Procedures Act (CPPA).

Samuel Levine, Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley Law’s Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice and former Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, emphasized the urgent need to modernize D.C.’s consumer...

Sam Levine testified this week before the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection in support of the department's proposal to ban junk fees by hotels that operate in New York City or advertise to New York City residents. Also, the Center, CLASS, and the CLASS chapters at the law schools at UC Berkeley, Fordham University, St. John's University, and New York University submitted a...

The Center welcomes the decision by the First District Court of Appeal in Kashanian v. National Enterprise Systems, Inc., which empathically affirms that standing under California consumer protection laws arises from a defendant’s violation of those laws, not from a separate injury to the plaintiff. The ruling marks a signal victory for consumers.

The Kashanian case involves a consumer class action brought under California’s Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection...