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Letter to Attorney General re: Letter to Treasury Secretary Geithner about Treasury Brief on National Banks and State Civil-Rights Laws

February 5, 2009

Forwarding a letter to the Treasury Secretary re: a brief in the United States Supreme Court in a case that will decide the ability of states to monitor and enforce mortgage-lending protections, anti-discrimination laws, and other important consumer protections in the financial sector.

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