40 states plan to join foreclosure investigations
Pressure on banks and processing firms to suspend foreclosures over concerns of paperwork errors continues to mount as a group of as many as 40 state attorneys general plans to announce a...
View ArticleNY joins national foreclosure work group
New York is joining the rest of the nation in a bipartisan mortgage foreclosure working group being led by Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller. It is part of a coordinated national effort by states to...
View ArticleForeclosure anger hits the campaigns
MIAMI — Three weeks before the election, anger over tainted home foreclosure documents is bursting into the battle for control of Congress, especially in hard-hit states such as Nevada and Florida....
View ArticleStates’ band together to investigate foreclosure process
The attorneys general of all 50 states and the District of Columbia have banded together to investigate the practice of “robo-signing” and other concerns that have arisen about banks and mortgage...
View ArticleState AGs urge Senate to confirm CFPB nominee
A group of state attorneys general urged members of the Senate Tuesday to confirm Richard Cordray, President Barack Obama’s pick to be the first director of a new consumer financial regulatory agency....
View ArticleAGs call for support of anti-DOMA ruling
The three states that comprise the Second Circuit are presenting the U.S. Court of Appeals with a unique question regarding the federal Defense of Marriage Act. The states, whose attorneys general have...
View ArticleJustice Dept., states challenge airlines merger
WASHINGTON — The federal government is trying to block the proposed merger of American Airlines and US Airways, saying it would cause “substantial harm” to consumers by leading to higher fares and...
View Article40 AGs urge tight regs of e-cigarettes
BOSTON — Forty attorneys general sent a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday urging the agency to meet its own deadline and regulate electronic cigarettes in the same way it...
View ArticleAGs urge High Court on drawing districts
A bipartisan coalition of 21 states filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court defending the states’ practice of including both voters and nonvoters in drawing state legislative election districts...
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