{"id":191705,"date":"2009-07-03T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T22:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/03\/well-this-is-a-weird-5-way\/"},"modified":"2009-07-03T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T22:58:00","slug":"well-this-is-a-weird-5-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/03\/well-this-is-a-weird-5-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Well, This is a Weird 5-Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justices <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/06\/29\/AR2009062901751.html\">Antonin Scalia, John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer<\/a> formed the majority on <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">&#8220;Cuomo vs. Clearing House Association<\/span>, (Eliot Spitzer originally brought the case) where they affirmed a states right to enforce laws against unfair lending practices.<\/p>\n<p>If you had told me that a 5-4 decision in the Supreme court would have this makeup, I would have thought that you were pulling my leg.<\/p>\n<p>While the Supreme Court did limit the scope of state Attorneys General, they do not have the right to simply demand documents, as federal regulators do, they have to get a court order, this is a big victory for consumers, and Scalia authored it.<\/p>\n<p>Reality is sometimes odd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justices Antonin Scalia, John Paul Stevens, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer formed the majority on &#8220;Cuomo vs. Clearing House Association, (Eliot Spitzer originally brought the case) where they affirmed a states right to enforce laws against unfair lending practices. If you had told me that a 5-4 decision in the Supreme court &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1004,972,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-justice","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}