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Guest Post: District Court Rejects Vicarious Liability Claims under the TCPA

Consumer Financial Services Law

By Alexa Cannon A Michigan district court recently weighed in on the availability of vicarious liability for violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (the “TCPA”). In Kern v. VIP Travel Servs. , the plaintiffs received several dozen telephone calls from United Shuttle Alliance Transportation Corp. (“USA”). Kern v. VIP Travel Servs. , 2017 U.S.

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Guest Post: CFPB Issues Request for Information Regarding Small Business Lending

Consumer Financial Services Law

By Vanessa Garrido The CFPB has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to collect data that will shed light on how small businesses engage with financial institutions, with a particular focus on women-owned and minority-owned small businesses. Of the estimated 27.6 million small businesses in the United States, over 7 million of these businesses are minority-owned and over 8.4 million are women-owned.