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Class Certification Denied in RESPA Kickback Action
The recent decision in Carter v. Welles-Bowen Realty, Inc., No. 3:09-cv-400 (N.D. Ohio Mar. 11, 2010), two consolidated cases involving alleged kickbacks to “sham” title insurance companies, in violation of the Real…
Maine Repeals Law Prohibiting Marketing to Children
In a post last month, we wrote that a Maine legislative committee had voted to repeal a recently-enacted online marketing law and predicted that the full legislature would soon repeal the law. Since then, Maine…
Mississippi Enacts Data Breach Notification Law
This post was written by Alysa Zeltzer Hutnik . On April 7, 2010, Mississippi enacted a data breach notification law that requires any person who conducts business in the State of Mississippi, and who, in the ordinary…
DOJ Reaches Landmark Settlement of Claims Regarding Racial Discrimination in Mortgage Lending
Last month, two subsidiaries of American International Group (“AIG”) agreed to pay $7.1 million to settle claims by the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) that the companies unlawfully charged African American…
Another Court Holds that Text Messages Could Violate the TCPA
In a post last month, we noted that a Chicago court had held that SMS messages that are sent to a consumer without the consumer’s consent could violate the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (the “TCPA”). Since then,…