On December 12, the CFPB released a report titled “Medical Collections on Credit Reports in Native American Communities,” which analyzed the impact of medical debt collections on credit reports in predominantly American Indian or Alaska Native areas.

Several courts have adopted a nonsensical principle that, as one court put it, “[w]hen documents are prepared for dissemination to third parties, neither the document itself, nor preliminary drafts, are entitled to immunity.” Burton v. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., 170 F.R.D. 481, 485 (D. Kan.

IN THE NEWS AND LATEST UPDATES - FTC Releases Narrowed Junk Fees Rule for Ticketing and Lodging - Fourteen months after proposing a far-reaching rule that would have overhauled the way fees are disclosed across sectors (see our previous discussion here), the FTC today announced a significantly

On December 10, the Treasury issued a joint statement from the EU-U.S. Joint Financial Regulatory Forum, which took place from December 4-5 and was co-chaired by the Treasury and the European Commission, with participation from various financial regulators in the U.S. and EU....