Rule Imperils Civil Legal Aid and Low-Income People with Legal Needs Related to Healthcare, Housing, and Other Essential Services
Carla Sanchez-Adams, senior attorney at the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC), provided testimony to the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee.
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The FAIR Act would end corporations’ use of forced arbitration and give cheated consumers, workers, and small-business owners their day in court.
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The unique nature of electronic contracts and electronic signatures provides grounds to challenge their enforceability.
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California Combating Auto Retail Scams (CARS) Act will make buying a new or used vehicle in California more affordable and less risky.
Appearing in Bloomberg Law on September 2, 2025, Angelica Serrano-Roman interviews NCLC Senior Attorney John Rao about how the Senate is expected to consider raising Chapter 13 debt limits—a move that practitioners say would ease pressure on consumers from housing costs and student loans. A regular consumer won’t opt for liquidation or Chapter 11 —…
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Appearing in WBUR Boston on September 2, 2025, Shennan Kavanagh, director of litigation at the National Consumer Law Center, talks to Hanna Ali and Nik DeCosta-Klipa about how, starting today, businesses in Massachusetts must display the total price of certain goods and services before customers reach checkout, thanks to new state regulations against hidden costs known as…
Incarcerated people accrue debt for nearly all of their medical care, which, according to NCLC staff attorney Anna Anderson, author of an op-ed appearing in Inquest on September 2, 2025, this makes a mockery of their right to health care—and saddles them with devastating debt upon release. “Despite how expensive it is, the care provided…
Home equity “investment” (HEI) loans, often marketed as a quick way for homeowners to get cash without the burden of monthly payments, are facing a new wave of legal challenges. Recent court decisions, including a significant ruling from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, are upholding claims against HEI loans. Courts are increasingly recognizing that…
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Appearing in BBC on Aug. 26, 2025, Miranda Green interviews Karen Lusson, senior attorney at NCLC for coverage of how climate change leads to hotter summer temperatures, breaking global heat records year after year and the health of Americans is at risk as people struggle to afford air conditioning (AC), which can help prevent heat-related illness and death.…
Across the country more than 100 nonprofit organizations work to ensure that low wage working families are able to get a car in order to find and keep a job. These programs promote economic well being and job security by distributing cars directly to families, making low-interest loans for car purchases, and facilitating matched savings…
Appearing in The Guardian on Aug. 18, 2025, Hannah Harris Green interviews Caroline Cohn, staff attorney at the National Consumer Law Center, for coverage of two private-equity backed companies that have been accused of failing to protect inmates from risk of harm, and even preventable death. “When private healthcare companies receive a fixed fee per…
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