Federal deception law : FTC and CFPB rules, RICO, False Claims Act, debt relief, TCPA, telemarketing, and parallel state statutes / Jonathan Sheldon, Carolyn Carter ; contributing authors, Andrew Pizor, Elizabeth De Armond, Jeffrey Thorn.
| Uniform Title: | Consumer credit and sales legal practice series.
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| Language: | English |
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Boston, MA :
National Consumer Law Center,
[2017]
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
| Series: | Consumer credit and sales legal practice series.
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| Physical Description: | xxii, 548 pages : forms ; 28 cm. Online version of the most recent edition is available via NCLC Digital Library. |
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Contents:
- First considerations
- FTC trade regulation rules
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau UDAAP standards
- The FTC holder rule and state law counterparts
- Telemarketing fraud: the FTC rule and state counterparts
- Unwanted calls and texts, junk faxes, and spam
- The Federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO)
- State RICO and civil theft statutes
- The Federal False Claims Act
- Regulation of debt relief services
- Other statutes protecting consumers
- Appendixes: A. FTC trade regulation rules; B. Selected Consumer Financial Protection Act provisions; C. Federal regulation of telemarketing, robocalls, junk faxes, and spam; D. State telemarketing statutes summarized; E. Federal RICO statute; F. State RICO statutes summarized
- G. Federal False Claims Act; H. State False Claims Act statutes summarized; I. State debt relief statutes summarized; J. Mailing of unordered merchandise; K. Restore Online Shoppers' Confidence Act; L. Federal Computer Fraud Abuse Act