While consumer protection cases have been on an overall decline over most of the past decade, there was an increase in general consumer protection cases, class action cases, TCPA cases and data breach ...

In the waning months of the Biden administration, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, released a flurry of new consumer protection rules, targeting everything from bank overdraft fees ...

Errors on credit reports. Unexpected bank and other “junk” fees. New financial products that conceal their true costs and terms. For help with those problems, millions of consumers in the U.S. have ...

Q: In your July 21 column, "The fate of consumer-protection rules," you wrote, "It will be a year until the president's immediate-repeal directive can take effect, and it will probably be another year ...

The Trump and Musk administration is continuing its vandalism of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau — the federal agency that has returned more than $20 billion to Americans who have been ...

Stalled lawsuits. Halted supervision and oversight. Suspended workforce. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is in the midst of a complete overhaul that could cripple its ability to act as the ...

Rohit Chopra, who led the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was known for his aggressive enforcement and expansion of consumer protection laws. By Stacy Cowley The director of the Consumer ...

HIS FIRST MONTHS ON THE JOB. AND I WILL EXERCISE THE DUTIES OF MY OFFICE AFTER TAKING OFFICE LAST JANUARY, ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS ATTORNEY GENERAL DAVE DID WAS MOVE THE DESK IN HIS OFFICE SO IT FACES ...

In an email to staff of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency’s acting director ordered workers to cease “all supervision and examination activity.” By Ryan Mac and Stacy Cowley ...

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is examining the possibility that Uber engaged in consumer protection law violations, as it automatically signed customers into its Uber One subscription service, ...