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NCLC Practice Tools

By Jon Sheldon

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Here are some recent NCLC practice tools:

1. Free Webinars: July 28 at 2pm: "Fundamental Freedoms in Manufactured Home Communities " and August 19th at 2pm : "Dealer Kickbacks: How Car Dealers Are Paid to Put Us in More Expensive Loans and How We Can Stop It". Contact jhiemenz@nclc.org for this and future webinars. Go to www.consumerlaw.org/issues/seniors_initiative/webinar.shtml for the 2010 schedule and FREE downloads of PAST webinars

2. Four New NCLC REPORTS:

Deceptive Practices & Warranties Ed. (May-June): Practice implications of two June Sup. Ct . arbitration decisions; new way to attack arbitration claused; 5 lessons from a $2 million award for sale of a rebuilt wreck

Bankruptcy & Foreclosures Ed. (May-June): 2 new Sup. Ct. bankruptcy decisions on disposable income and claiming exemptions; the new Home Affordable Unemployment Program

Consumer Credit & Usury Ed. (May-June): FRB limits on credit card penalty fees; SAFE Act's implications for mortgage brokers AND consumer attorneys; demise of the guaranteed student loan program; new rules re student loan disability discharges

Debt Collection & Repo Ed. (May-June): consumer victories defending collection suits; $1.5 million debt harassment award; GAO report on debt settlement; FCC rule on pre-recorded calls; report on debt buyers; report on self-help repossessions; FDCPA case summaries

3. Online registration and the Consumer Rights Litigation Conference brochure now available at www.nclc.org --the consumer law highlight of the year, Nov. 11-14, 2010, at the Park Plaza Hotel, Boston, with over 50 breakout sessions, a Consumer Class Action Symposium, and intensives on mortgage litigation, debt collection defense, and bankruptcy protection for homeowners. Join over 700 colleagues and fabulous speakers. CLE credit.

4. Discriminatory mortgage upcharge class certified in Ramirez v. Greenpoint Mortgage Funding, Inc. (N.D. Cal. July 20, 2010), reprinted at www.nclc.org/unreported, based upon brokers being given discretion to increase mortgage loan interest rates.

5 . Additional FCRA cases on furnisher liability now analyzed on Fair Credit Reporting's companion website, a free resource for subscribers to that volume.