Complaint Against John Mullins & Songs, Inc. Furniture Store for Violating Consumer Protection Act

Press Release
August 21, 1970

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  • Press Releases, Volume 6. Complaint Against John Mullins & Songs, Inc. Furniture Store for Violating Consumer Protection Act, 1970. e3e0a534-ba92-ee11-be37-00224827e97b. LDF Archives, Thurgood Marshall Institute. https://ldfrecollection.org/archives/archives-search/archives-item/f6c8fc7f-5bc5-480e-afb2-893c1fc405e6/complaint-against-john-mullins-songs-inc-furniture-store-for-violating-consumer-protection-act. Accessed May 08, 2025.

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TELEGRAM 

8/21/70 

Complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn 

yesterday against John Mullins & Sons, Inc., major Brooklyn 

furniture chain, charging gross violations of federal 

Consumer Protection Act (also called "Truth-In-Lending" law) 

in “each and every consumer credit sale" since 7/1/69. 

Alleged violations are: 

1. failure to disclose annual percentage rate 

2. failure to disclose total sum of periodic payments 

3. failure to use any of the language required by the 
Act 

4 failure to provide buyer with legible contract. 

NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), 

representing Mrs. Helen Kristiansen and all others who have 

entered into consumer credit sales with Mullins since 7/1/69, 

seeks to test whether sanctions of the Truth-In-Lending law 

can be used effectively in a class action to enforce the law 

in ghetto stores. 

For further information, contact LDF attorney Eric 

Schnapper: office Ju 6-8397; or home: 914-961-2477 

Sent to: 

AP, UPI Post 
Daily News L.I. Press 
Wa?! St. Journal Brooklyn Daily 
Newsday Journal of Commerce 

(N.Y. T. had been called by Eric)

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