Category Archives: General

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is moving to thwart illegal repossessions in the heated auto market. A compliance bulletin issued today reveals conduct observed during CFPB examinations and enforcement actions, including the illegal seizure of cars, sloppy record keeping, … Continue reading →

The State sought a writ of prohibition to bar the Commission from compelling the production of medical marijuana records and cited constitutional provisions making those records confidential. But the Constitution also makes medical marijuana records available for the licensing process, … Continue reading →

A husband and wife have pleaded guilty to federal charges related to a fraud scheme that included wrongly receiving food assistance, a false bankruptcy and lying to the IRS, according to officials. Abraham Elsaghir of Dearborn, Mich., pleaded guilty to … Continue reading →

Home prices soared almost 19 percent higher in 2021 as a severe lack of supply and low borrowing costs poured fuel on housing costs. The S&P CoreLogic Case Shiller housing price index, an important gauge of home prices, rose 18.8 … Continue reading →

Courts are on the verge of shutting the door, once and for all, on “net winners” from the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme who refuse to pay back fictitious profits they received in the two years before commencement of the liquidation … Continue reading →

The Education Department will cancel federal student loans for at least 1,800 students who attended DeVry University, once one of the nation’s largest for-profit college chains, because it fraudulently lured in applicants for years with vastly inflated claims about their … Continue reading →

The most-awarded luxury cruise line in the industry, Crystal Cruises, unceremoniously shuttered its doors without a word to consumers and travel agents. Its parent company, Genting Hong Kong, abandoned it leaving a trail of debt—to travelers, agents, employees, and vendors. … Continue reading →

Hertz Corp., battling hundreds of customers who say they were falsely arrested for auto theft after renting cars, was ordered by a federal judge to disclose how many renters it accuses every year. Bankruptcy Judge Mary Walrath sided with advocates … Continue reading →

Statute allows termination of maintenance upon a substantial and continuing change of circumstances that makes the maintenance obligation unreasonable. That can include recipient’s cohabitation, if the cohabitation is a substitute for marriage, which requires a circuit court’s conclusions of law … Continue reading →

Statute bars compensation for injury resulting from “risk unrelated to the employment to which workers would have been equally exposed outside of and unrelated to the employment in normal nonemployment life.” Claimant choked on his breakfast, passed out, and crashed … Continue reading →