Community Development Banking List
07-22-2010, 05:58 PM
Original message from: runonthebank@gmail.com
This update lists new aids, reports, free webinars, and other practice tools:
1. Free Webinars: July 28 at 2pm: "Fundamental
Freedoms in Manufactured Home Communities "
and August 19th at 2pm : "Dealer Kickbacks: How
Car Dealers Are Paid to Put Us in More Expensive
Loans and How We Can Stop It". Contact
<blocked::blocked::blocked::mailto:jhiemenz@nclc.or g>jhiemenz@nclc.org
for this and future webinars. Go to
<blocked::blocked::http://www.consumerlaw.org/issues/seniors_initiative/webinar.shtml>www.consumerlaw.org/issues/seniors_initiative/webinar.shtml ('http://www.consumerlaw.org/issues/seniors_initiative/webinar.shtml>www.consumerlaw.org/issues/seniors_initiative/webinar.shtml')
for the 2010 schedule and FREE downloads of PAST webinars
2. Four New NCLC REPORTS:
Deceptive Practices & Warranties Ed. (May-June):
Practice implications of two June Sup. Ct
. arbitration decisions; new way to attack
arbitration claused; 5 lessons from a $2 million
award for sale of a rebuilt wreck
Bankruptcy & Foreclosures Ed. (May-June): 2 new
Sup. Ct. bankruptcy decisions on disposable
income and claiming exemptions; the new Home Affordable Unemployment Program
Consumer Credit & Usury Ed. (May-June): FRB
limits on credit card penalty fees; SAFE Act's
implications for mortgage brokers AND consumer
attorneys; demise of the guaranteed student loan
program; new rules re student loan disability discharges
Debt Collection & Repo Ed. (May-June): consumer
victories defending collection suits; $1.5
million debt harassment award; GAO report on debt
settlement; FCC rule on pre-recorded calls;
report on debt buyers; report on self-help repossessions; FDCPA case summaries
3. Online registration and the Consumer Rights
Litigation Conference brochure now available at
<blocked::blocked::http://www.nclc.org/>www.nclc.org ('http://www.nclc.org/>www.nclc.org')
--the consumer law highlight of the year, Nov.
11-14, 2010, at the Park Plaza Hotel, Boston,
with over 50 breakout sessions, a Consumer Class
Action Symposium, and intensives on mortgage
litigation, debt collection defense, and
bankruptcy protection for homeowners. Join over
700 colleagues and fabulous speakers. CLE credit.
4. Discriminatory mortgage upcharge class
certified in Ramirez v. Greenpoint Mortgage
Funding, Inc. (N.D. Cal. July 20, 2010),
reprinted at
<blocked::blocked::http://www.nclc.org/unreported>www.nclc.org/unreported, ('http://www.nclc.org/unreported>www.nclc.org/unreported,')
based upon brokers being given discretion to
increase mortgage loan interest rates.
5 . Additional FCRA cases on furnisher
liability now analyzed on Fair Credit Reporting's
companion website, a free resource for subscribers to that volume.
6 . NCLC launches its new website--check it out
at <blocked::blocked::http://www.nclc.org/>www.nclc.org ('http://www.nclc.org/>www.nclc.org')
National Consumer Law Center®
7 Winthrop Square, 4th Floor
Boston, MA 02110
(617) 542-8010
www.nclc.org
This update lists new aids, reports, free webinars, and other practice tools:
1. Free Webinars: July 28 at 2pm: "Fundamental
Freedoms in Manufactured Home Communities "
and August 19th at 2pm : "Dealer Kickbacks: How
Car Dealers Are Paid to Put Us in More Expensive
Loans and How We Can Stop It". Contact
<blocked::blocked::blocked::mailto:jhiemenz@nclc.or g>jhiemenz@nclc.org
for this and future webinars. Go to
<blocked::blocked::http://www.consumerlaw.org/issues/seniors_initiative/webinar.shtml>www.consumerlaw.org/issues/seniors_initiative/webinar.shtml ('http://www.consumerlaw.org/issues/seniors_initiative/webinar.shtml>www.consumerlaw.org/issues/seniors_initiative/webinar.shtml')
for the 2010 schedule and FREE downloads of PAST webinars
2. Four New NCLC REPORTS:
Deceptive Practices & Warranties Ed. (May-June):
Practice implications of two June Sup. Ct
. arbitration decisions; new way to attack
arbitration claused; 5 lessons from a $2 million
award for sale of a rebuilt wreck
Bankruptcy & Foreclosures Ed. (May-June): 2 new
Sup. Ct. bankruptcy decisions on disposable
income and claiming exemptions; the new Home Affordable Unemployment Program
Consumer Credit & Usury Ed. (May-June): FRB
limits on credit card penalty fees; SAFE Act's
implications for mortgage brokers AND consumer
attorneys; demise of the guaranteed student loan
program; new rules re student loan disability discharges
Debt Collection & Repo Ed. (May-June): consumer
victories defending collection suits; $1.5
million debt harassment award; GAO report on debt
settlement; FCC rule on pre-recorded calls;
report on debt buyers; report on self-help repossessions; FDCPA case summaries
3. Online registration and the Consumer Rights
Litigation Conference brochure now available at
<blocked::blocked::http://www.nclc.org/>www.nclc.org ('http://www.nclc.org/>www.nclc.org')
--the consumer law highlight of the year, Nov.
11-14, 2010, at the Park Plaza Hotel, Boston,
with over 50 breakout sessions, a Consumer Class
Action Symposium, and intensives on mortgage
litigation, debt collection defense, and
bankruptcy protection for homeowners. Join over
700 colleagues and fabulous speakers. CLE credit.
4. Discriminatory mortgage upcharge class
certified in Ramirez v. Greenpoint Mortgage
Funding, Inc. (N.D. Cal. July 20, 2010),
reprinted at
<blocked::blocked::http://www.nclc.org/unreported>www.nclc.org/unreported, ('http://www.nclc.org/unreported>www.nclc.org/unreported,')
based upon brokers being given discretion to
increase mortgage loan interest rates.
5 . Additional FCRA cases on furnisher
liability now analyzed on Fair Credit Reporting's
companion website, a free resource for subscribers to that volume.
6 . NCLC launches its new website--check it out
at <blocked::blocked::http://www.nclc.org/>www.nclc.org ('http://www.nclc.org/>www.nclc.org')
National Consumer Law Center®
7 Winthrop Square, 4th Floor
Boston, MA 02110
(617) 542-8010
www.nclc.org