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BANKING

– Consumer credit

See CONSUMER CREDIT
– – Credit cards

See CREDIT CARDS

– Electronic fund transfers processed by intermediary bank not subject to maritime attachment and garnishment rule (2d Cir.), 1238
– Executive compensation

– – Fed proposes probe of incentive policies, 2236
– – Institutions receiving bailout funds, report details amounts, urges government action, 2123

– Identity theft

See IDENTITY THEFT

– Loans

See LOANS

– Mortgages

See MORTGAGES

– Nonbank subsidiaries of bank holding companies, Fed monitoring of, In Brief, 2159
– Offshore tax evasion

See TAXATION

– Patents, infringement suit against Federal Reserve banks over method of detecting check fraud belongs in Federal Claims court (Fed. Cir.), 1206
– Regulatory reform

– – ABA delegates approve governing principles, 2082
– – Congress and financial industry must implement reforms, Obama says on anniversary of Lehman Bros. failure, 2162; experts say financial system on path to recovery, but reforms needed to prevent future crisis, 2163; Treasury Sec'y Geithner continues to urge changes, In Brief, 2194
– – Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Obama administration issues legislative proposal to create, 2008; FTC may lose duties under proposal, 2009; for further action, see LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 3126
– – National Bank Supervisor and resolution regime to unwind large financial firms, Treasury Dep't issues legislative proposals to create, 2060

– Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor, little data exists to predict rulings in financial services matters, 2028
– TARP

See TROUBLED ASSET RELIEF PROGRAM (TARP)

– Truth in Lending Act

See TRUTH IN LENDING ACT (TILA)

BANKRUPTCY

– Attorney-client privilege, avoiding waiver in corporate insolvencies, Analysis and Perspective Part I, 2019; Part II, 2035
– Conversion of Ch. 11 matter to Ch. 7, bankruptcy court may issue nunc pro tunc order (6th Cir.), 1047
– Discharge of debts, ride-through option superseded by BAPCPA (9th Cir.), 1179
– Jury trial right, debtor lacks in trustee action seeking turnover of property (1st Cir.), 1017
– Mortgage modification by bankruptcy judges, Frank (D-Mass) to renew lawmaking effort to allow, 2141
– Motor vehicles, negative equity

– – Purchase money security interest (10th Cir.), In Brief, 1112
– – Trade-in vehicle, negative equity rolled over into new vehicle loan not subject to bifurcation (5th Cir., 8th Cir.), 1180

– Plan confirmation, “projected disposable income” may be adjusted based on change in debtor's situation that is reasonably certain to occur (5th Cir.), 1065; circuit split roundup, 1127
– Secured debt payments, debtor may deduct from monthly income despite intention to surrender collateral (1st Cir.), 1097

BENEFITS

– Disability

See DISABILITY BENEFITS

– Employee

See EMPLOYEE BENEFITS

– Food Stamp Act, trial de novo provision, circuit split roundup, 1012
– Medicare and Medicaid

See MEDICARE AND MEDICAID

– Social Security

See SOCIAL SECURITY

BEVERAGES

See also FOOD
– Alcohol

See ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

– Product liability, challenge to Snapple “All Natural” labeling not barred by field or conflict preemption (3d Cir.), 1106

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION

– Pollution, diesel emissions reductions from construction sites, In Brief, 2225

BURDEN OF PROOF

See EVIDENCE

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