If at first you don't succeed, try, try again, right? That advice may be good for life in general, but it's not so good for running credit inquiries…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" covered during the July 2025 webinar…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking, Consumer Protection
July 23, 2025 Mark D. Metrey On July 8, 2025, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong announced the state's first public enforcement action under the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) against TicketNetwork, Inc…
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/ Administrative Law, Privacy
On July 10, 2025, the Massachusetts Attorney General (AGO) entered into an Assurance of Discontinuance (AOD) with a private student loan lender (the Company), resolving allegations that the Company's underwriting practices…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology
With the summer wave of state legislative adjournments ending, residential property managers are confronting a new landscape of regulatory obligations. Several states and municipalities have enacted or finalized laws and rules…
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/ Consumer Protection, Real Estate - Residential
On July 8, 2025, the Eighth Circuit issued an opinion that vacated the FTC's Negative Option Rule in its entirety. The FTC's compliance deadline for the Rule, which had been extended once, was set to go into effect on July 14th…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection
California Attorney General Bonta entered into the state's largest California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") settlement to date with a website publisher for $1.55 million…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking, Privacy
Folks in the consumer credit industry know that it can be easy to run afoul of collection restrictions. From the number of times you are allowed to contact a delinquent buyer to what you are allowed to say when you do make…
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/ Administrative Law, Finance & Banking
The Arkansas legislature recently passed House Bill 1517, which creates an earned wage access law in the state. It will be one of the relatively few such laws in the country. One interesting question is whether the law…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking, Labor & Employment Law
On June 20, 2025, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed House Bill 700, which regulates sales-based financing transactions and requires providers and brokers of sales-based financing transactions to register with the Texas Office of…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
Join Hudson Cook partners Julia Whitelock and Rob Tilley for a quarterly consumer and government enforcement litigation webinar. The webinars will feature a discussion of recent, notable cases involving the consumer financial…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau recently delivered its Consumer Response Annual Report for 2024, as required by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The report includes analyses of complaints…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
Motor vehicle purchase and finance transactions are rarely simple, even if they're routine from the perspective of the businesses involved. The typical motor vehicle retail installment transaction features the buyer, the seller,…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Finance & Banking
The debt settlement industry is fast emerging as a significant portion of the overall consumer financial services market, yet many still do not understand the space. Please join Hudson Cook partner Cathy Brennan as she explores…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" covered during the June 2025 webinar…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking, Privacy