Complaint Against John Mullins & Songs, Inc. Furniture Store for Violating Consumer Protection Act
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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 October 29, 2025.
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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)