Lynn Dorsey, the former executive director of the Webster Parish Convention and Visitors Bureau who was fired after she accidentally posted a nude video on the bureau’s Instagram, has filed a lawsuit looking to get her job back. (Henrietta Wildsmith/The Times) The video was reportedly posted via Instagram’s new Live feature. (Photo: Shreveport Times stock image) 16 …
The leaders of a Congressional subcommittee are urging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to include a safe harbor provision in its final set of rules prohibiting arbitration clauses that prevent class action lawsuits. U.S. Reps. Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer …
The Iowa Farm Bureau Federation (IFBF) and the Iowa Corn Growers Association (ICGA) have offered to underwrite the legal costs for the defense of the drainage districts targeted in the Des Moines Water Works (DMWW) lawsuit. Leaders of the utility claim officials in Buena Vista, Calhoun and Sac Counties have failed to adequately manage 10 drainage districts in their area, causing nitrate levels …
Tom Colbert is 100 percent sure that D.B. Cooper is a 72-year-old Vietnam War veteran living in southern California. Colbert also believes the FBI has evidence that it is withholding.
The vast majority of consumers want to know they can seek their day in court if they get in a beef with a bank. That’s the main takeaway of a report last week from the Pew Charitable Trusts, which examined so-called mandatory arbitration clauses in bank contracts. These are the provisions that say you can’t sue or join a class-action lawsuit, and if you want to settle a dispute, you have to …
Some of the fine print on bank account, credit card, and loan forms may soon get a rewrite that restores legal rights millions of Americans unknowingly waive when they swipe a piece of plastic or borrow money. Monday is the deadline for public comment on a federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposal to curb so-called “forced arbitration” clauses — dense language buried deep in the …
Today, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau closes the comment period on its proposed rule to enrich trial lawyers at the expense of consumers. The Bureau misleadingly styles its proposal as one to regulate arbitration agreements. The truth is that the proposal is very intentionally designed for the singular goal of promoting class action lawsuits—the number one policy priority of the trial …
Banks keep saying over and over that arbitration proceedings, as opposed to class-action lawsuits, are the best way for consumers to handle disputes. Yet faced with the prospect of no longer being able to deny consumers the right to sue them, the banking industry is expected to take the deliciously ironic step of suing the federal government. At issue is a proposed rule from the Consumer …
The trial started today in federal court for the Pittsburgh Police officer who is suing the city, claiming her civil rights were violated. In 2013, Officer Tonya Montgomery-Ford was suspended with pay. It was one day after former Pittsburgh Police chief Nate Harper resigned as the FBI investigated possible corruption in the police bureau.
If government–or at least government regulators, apparatchiks and other place-holders–get their way, it’s going to be a lot easier to sue your bank. Just what this country needs. …