By the Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice September 1, 2020 As of September 1, 2020, debt collectors are no longer allowed to completely empty a person’s bank account. Governor Newsom signed the new law — SB 616 — in October of last year. The law requires debt collectors to leave at […]
Starting Today, Debt Collectors Can No Longer Empty Californians’ Bank Accounts
Center Successfully Requests Publication In Graylee v. Castro To Protect Tenants
By the Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice August 4, 2020 The Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice, along with the Eviction Defense Collaborative, Public Law Center, the National Housing Law Project, Bet Tzedek Legal Services, Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, the East Bay Community Law Center, and Legal Aid […]
Orange County Agrees Not to Collect 18.5 Million from Families Whose Children Were Locked in Juvenile Hall
Orange County Register, 7/15/20
Center Requests Publication of Case Making Homeowner Association Directors More Accountable
By the Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice July 14, 2020 The Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice, along with the Center for California Homeowner Association Law, Housing & Economic Rights Advocates, and Legal Aid Society of San Diego, requested publication of Coley v. Eskaton, a recent decision from California’s Third District […]
Orange County Ends Racially Discriminatory Wealth Extraction From Thousands of Families Amid COVID-19 Crisis
Press Release: Western Center on Law & Poverty, PAC, 7/14/20
2020 Annual Report – A Look at the Past Year
Learn about what the Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice has been up to this past year in our 2020 Annual Report.
Clinic Celebrates Progress Towards an Equitable Microgrid Policy
Clinical Teaching Fellow Heather Lewis, Legal Planet
Alyssa Cheung M.P.P. ’21: Microgrids Will Save Lives and Green the Golden State
If the state wants to truly protect its most vulnerable, and also meet its ambitious climate goals, the state and its and electric utilities must ensure that microgrids benefit disadvantaged communities as quickly as possible.
Sarae Snyder ’21: PG&E’s Power Shut-Offs Exacerbate Existing Inequities
As utilities such as Pacific Gas & Electric continue to power society with failing infrastructure due to decades of mismanagement, Public Safety Power Shutoffswill continue to be the reality during California’s fire seasons for the foreseeable future.
Lawyers Can’t Visit Clients in Prison, So Quit Monitoring Their Emails
Los Angeles Times