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23 AGs celebrate Supreme Court retaining their ‘powerful tools’ in CFPB decision

June 30, 2020
More reaction rolled in stemming from Monday’s Supreme Court decision involving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. While some legal experts are pondering long-term ramifications of the decision, nearly half of the attorneys general in the U.S. celebrated because the Supreme Court also agreed with the argument made in a multistate amicus brief connected to how…
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Loosening criminal history bar for COVID-19 loans does not moot lawsuit

June 29, 2020
A Maryland convenience store who sued the U.S. Small Business Administration over its rule prohibiting businesses owned by people with criminal histories from applying for COVID-19 relief loans on Friday urged a court to keep the case alive despite an “11th hour” change to the program by the SBA that rendered him eligible to apply.…
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SBA Changes PPP Criminal History Rules, Enabling More Businesses to Qualify for Loans

June 27, 2020
Altimont Mark Wilks, a small business owner from Hagerstown, Md., who was unlawfully barred from applying for a much-needed Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) loan, can finally breathe a sigh of relief. The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan, nonprofit civil rights group, filed a motion for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction against the Small Business Administration…
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Lee County commissioners approve expansion of license plate readers

June 26, 2020
Lee County is expanding the ability of law enforcement to use license plate readers along local roadways. The Lee County Board of County Commissioners this week OK’d allowing the Cape Coral and Fort Myers police departments to use poles along county roads for the readers. Read the full article   TweetShareShare0 Shares
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Cape Coral and Fort Myers residents, did you know your license plate is being recorded?

June 26, 2020
Police in Cape Coral and Fort Myers are keeping an electronic eye on motorists and have been for quite some time, but now they are adding even more recording devices. The readers allow police to check traffic for stolen vehicles, Silver and Amber alerts and wanted persons. Even as New Civil Liberties Alliance is filing lawsuits, including the possibility of…
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Lobbyists Accuse SEC of “Backdoor Regulation” on 12b-1 Fees

June 25, 2020
Four industry groups have filed another petition before the SEC accusing the regulator of using “backdoor regulation” of 12b-1 fees. “This petition is about the Securities and Exchange Commission’s thirty-year effort to effectively outlaw Rule 12b-1 fees, and the concerted campaign of subregulatory sabotage upon which it embarked when it could not get its way through…
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