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• Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more

  Posted: July 26th, 2009, 11:17am PDT by Stephen Lubben

  My thoughts on the automotive chapter 11 cases, on Forbes.com.

  UPDATE:  The materials for today's TARP Congressional Oversight Panel hearing on the automotive bankruptcies, including my full remarks, can be found here.

• After Notice and a Hearing -- One Out of Two Ain't Bad?

  Posted: July 26th, 2009, 8:50am PDT by Bob Lawless

  Wow. I missed this one last week. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has brought civil and criminal charges against lawyers and process servers who were abusing the debt collection system. From the New York Times article:

  According to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in New York Supreme Court in Buffalo, lawyers and debt collectors obtained more than 101,000 court orders that were improperly issued, allowing them to seize, on average, $5,474 from each consumer.
  
  The lawsuit asserts that consumers were never properly notified and were not given a chance to defend themselves in court; creditors won default judgments. The total amount of money seized exceeded $500 million, according to the attorney general’s office.
  

  The cornerstones of due process are notice and a hearing. It sounds like these consumers were only getting half of that, and without notice that it is going to occur, the hearing does not do much good. From the press release, it sounds like the problem was with the process servers who are alleged to have knowingly failed to serve process. After serving process, the process server files an affidavit swearing that it was done. A false affidavit is akin to perjury, hence the criminal charges against some participants.

  Hat tip to Brian Wolfman and Jeff Sovern over at the Consumer Law & Policy Blog for pointing the way to the story.