Sentences with phrase «abusive practices»

Attachment Parenting is not the same as the controversial and abusive practice of attachment therapy.

Auto lenders would be well advised to keep up their guard as states — particularly blue ones — take steps of their own to crack down on what they see as abusive practices.

Since we wrote our report on the student loan «debt relief» industry in 2013, we have unfortunately seen this industry grow and engage in even more abusive practices.

The Federal Constitutional Court acknowledged the intention to prevent abusive practices.

They got ahead of abusive practices towards distressed homeowners and shady loan modification companies.

These laws were designed to curb a wide variety of abusive practices made by these companies.

Attachment Parenting is not the same as the controversial and abusive practice of attachment therapy.

Since then we have unfortunately seen student loan debt relief business grow and engage in even more abusive practices.

Cable's vow to «act against abusive practices in zero hours contracts» coincides with the Labour leader's recent pledge also to crackdown on zero hours contracts.

But there are political risks in Trump taking a hatchet to a watchdog agency focused on protecting ordinary consumers against abusive practices by banks, mortgage companies, credit card issuers, payday lenders, debt collectors and others.

The CFTC aims to protect market participants from fraud, manipulation and abusive practices related to financial derivatives such as futures and options.

By making important reforms to the nation's patent litigation system, the Innovation Act would address abusive practices by patent trolls that bully American...

The recent trade negotiations between the U.S. and China have centered on abusive practices in China towards U.S. corporations.

The FDCPA was enacted in response to eliminate abusive practices in the collection of consumer debts.

We also found that one of DiTech's predecessors paid a settlement of $ 63 million for abusive practices towards borrowers, shortly before it merged to form part of DiTech.

By making important reforms to the nation's patent litigation system, the Innovation Act would address abusive practices by patent trolls that bully American businesses, including many REALTORS ®, with deceptive and often illegitimate claims of patent infringement.

Chairman Giancarlo's effort to balance the CFTC's goals of promoting innovation while also protecting the derivatives markets from fraud, manipulation and other abusive practices has passed the first significant test.

Etsy's Erickson says the current draft also has loopholes that could allow abusive practices to flourish, such as an exception for «specialized services.»

Through the internet, I've come to find that others have experienced cult - like or abusive practices at «Christian Fellowship Ministries» or Potter's House churches associated with Wayman Mitchell.

He said that it is «conceivable» that de Blasio might develop a «political backbone» without reelection pressure and force changes such as ending broken windows, abolishing the quota system that mandates a certain number of arrests and summonses and dismissing and suspending officers who engage in abusive practices without pay.

«What was undoubtedly set out originally by the NIH as a means to protect postdocs («trainees») from abusive practices, has paradoxically, in many cases, turned out to harm them, largely in terms of access to benefits.»

The FDCPA prohibits debt collectors from engaging in unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices while collecting these debts.

This provision alone «should be particularly helpful because it applies to» large numbers of homeowners who are covered by legal settlements over alleged abusive practices by lenders and servicers, said Ruth Susswein, deputy director of national priorities at the nonprofit group Consumer Action.The bill also seeks to bring reforms to credit scoring.

PETA's animal protection work brings together members of the scientific, judicial, and legislative communities to stop abusive practices.

He used the position to eclipse the traditionally dominant role of the Manhattan U.S. Attorney in regulation of financial institutions, bringing sweeping lawsuits that challenged the barons of Wall Street over abusive practices — notably their habit of selling stocks aggressively to the public, while commenting internally, usually in quite colorful language, that the stocks were a bad bet.

Following Mr. Stumpf, regulators, including Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray, answered questions about their investigations into Wells Fargo, and what they recommended to not only address wrongdoing within that company, but prevent future abusive practices across the financial services industry.

«It is quite clear that these are unfair and abusive practices under federal law,» Cordray said.

Australians will be appalled to learn that this equally abusive practice is considered acceptable by industry standards.

CR helped to mobilize support in Congress to create the CFPB, an independent agency responsible for overseeing the financial industry with powers to police abusive practices and to enact new consumer protections.

They have offered governments and mental health authorities technical assistance on the mental health services needed to abolish abusive practices and end social segregation of people with mental disabilities.

The Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation called for the creation of the agency to combat abusive practices.

All have two or more of the following abusive practices:

The Fair Debt Collections Act (FDCA) amends the CCPA to prohibit abusive practices by collection agencies.

Moreover, one of the companies that joined to form DiTech in 2015 settled allegations of abusive practices shortly before the merger, paying out $ 63 million to the CFPB.

The FTC updated the TSR in 2010 to curb deceptive and abusive practices associated with debt relief services.

Based on my experience in covering stories about debt settlement abusive practices it seems like the advance fee ban initiated by the FTC goes a long way to protect consumers but is not so hard and fast that there are not some small allowances given to debt relief providers.

This legislation would allow numerous abusive practices to be inflicted upon working animals and permit cruel animal activities such as horse tripping.

I expose commodity industries that are dependent upon abusive practices commencing during colonialism.

Instead, thank you to abysmal media practices, Republican abusive practices (voter suppression), Russian interference, and..., these anti-intellectual, anti-expert, anti-science fossil fools are occupying the US Federal government and damaging humanity's ability to set a path to tackle climate change and foster a way forward to a prosperous, climate - friendly future.

Over the past ten years, Egypt's torture record received increased international attention as abusive practices carried out by the United States and European Union (EU) countries such as Sweden in the name of counterterrorism were gradually exposed.

Preventing gamesmanship in litigation through choice of court, while not a comprehensive fix to problems within the patent system, would go a long way toward stopping a longstanding abusive practice that harms legitimate innovators, the economy, and the public.»

While this is not necessarily an inherently abusive practice, Facebook clearly views its existence as a potential threat in the waiting, and the company is taking seemingly ever preemptive measure it can right now to fend off future privacy violations and PR disasters like the Cambridge Analytica one.

The abuses found within Indigenous communities today are directly linked to oppressive and abusive practices performed by Euro - Western practitioners, for example, the endless removal of children from their communities and the abuses they suffered in residential schools, foster and adoptive homes, and juvenile detention centres.

They Can't Harass You Debt collectors also can't harass or use abusive practices to try to collect.

As noted above, the loan originator compensation provisions were implemented to address a perceived lack of regulation and concerns regarding abusive practices.