CFPB Chief Mick Mulvaney Undercuts Penalty Against Payday Lender

On Wednesday, U.S. Consumer Financial Protection chief Mick Mulvaney levied a $200,000 penalty against a payday lender for harassing borrowers. While the punishment may seem a fitting penalty, Reuters reports that the $200,000 fine falls far short of the $3,000,000 Mulvaney’s predecessor was seeking. The settlement ended a CFPB investigation into Cash Express LLC, which


Wake County School System Agrees to $75K Settlement Involving Student Hit by Car While Catching His Bus

The Wake County school district recently agreed to settle a lawsuit filed by a student’s family for $75,000. According to the lawsuit, the student, Michael Burgess was an 11-year-old student at West Lake Middle School in 2014 when he was “struck by a car while trying to catch a school bus” and “suffered multiple serious injuries.” As a result, the family sued the school district, accusing it of “putting the bus stop in an unsafe location.” However, despite it’s agreement to settle the suit, the Wake County school district made “no admission of responsibility.”









Lawsuit Hopes to Protect Wild Horses from Being Sold and Slaughtered

A federal lawsuit was recently filed in California by the American Wild Horse Campaign and Animal Legal Defense Fund with the hope that it will “block the US Forest Service from capturing and selling wild horses for slaughter.” Nowadays, there are very few wild horses running free in America’s not so wild West, and this new lawsuit hopes to save the few that remain.