The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled oral argument in Seila Law on March 3, 2020.

The question presented in Seila Law’s petition is whether the CFPB’s single-director-removable-only-for-cause structure violates the separation of powers in the U.S. Constitution.  In its Order granting Seila Law’s certiorari petition, the Supreme Court directed the parties to also brief and argue the question whether the Dodd-Frank Act’s for-cause removal provision can be severed from the Act if the Bureau’s structure is found to be unconstitutional.

Seila Law’s brief on the merits and the CFPB’s brief on the merits must be filed by December 9, 2019.  Paul D. Clement, who was appointed amicus curiae by the Supreme Court to defend the Ninth Circuit’s judgment, must file his brief on the merits by January 15, 2020.  Court rules allow 30 days for the filing of reply briefs.

Other amicus curiae briefs, on both or either question before the court, must be filed within 7 days after the party supported files its merits brief.

A decision from the Supreme Court is expected by the end of its term in June 2020.