The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB鈥檚) plans, under new leadership, to 鈥渞econsider鈥� a rule that protects consumers from harmful payday and car title loans are a blatant effort to aid the powerful, predatory lenders who routinely trap these borrowers in a cycle of debt.
How Alabama's Profit-Driven Civil Asset Forfeiture Scheme Undercuts Due Process and Property Rights
Mississippi will reinstate more than 100,000 driver鈥檚 licenses that were suspended for non-payment of traffic tickets and will no longer suspend licenses for failure to pay fines, under an agreement that was announced today between the 蜜桃传媒, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety (DPS) and another organization.
The city of Corinth, Mississippi and Municipal Court Judge John C. Ross are operating a modern-day debtors鈥� prison, unlawfully jailing poor people for their inability to pay bail and fines, according to a聽federal class-action lawsuit聽filed by the 蜜桃传媒 and another civil rights group.
The city of Corinth, Mississippi, and Municipal Court Judge John C. Ross operated a modern-day debtors鈥� prison, unlawfully jailing poor people for their inability to pay bail and fines. The 蜜桃传媒 and another civil rights group filed a聽...
Gardendale, Alabama Municipal Court Judge Kenneth Gomany signed an order today that people who are currently assigned to probation with the private company Professional Probation Services, Inc. will no longer have to report or make payments to the company.
In Gardendale, Alabama, municipal court defendants unable to pay court costs and fees in full were placed on probation with the company Private Probation Services (PPS), which charged defendants a $40 monthly fee for supervising their probation. These payments were unconstitutionally enforced...
The following statement is about the rule finalized today by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) that requires payday and car title lenders to determine a borrower鈥檚 ability to repay before issuing a short-term loan like a payday or title loan.
Several New Orleans-based bail bond companies, along with their insurance underwriters, have collectively overcharged poor defendants nearly $5 million over the last 12 years, in violation of state law, according to a complaint the 蜜桃传媒 filed today with the Louisiana Department of Insurance.
Under a settlement with the 蜜桃传媒, the city court in Bogalusa, Louisiana, will stop jailing indigent defendants for failing to pay court debt 鈥� one of several reforms designed to ensure fairness for all people appearing before the court.
