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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Will Madden v Midland Disrupt Loan Sales and Platform Lending?

Where do marketplace lenders and secondary loan market participants find themselves on the issue of preemption of state usury laws after the June 27 denial of the petition for a writ of certiorari in Madden v. Midland by the...more

Blank Rome LLP

Madden v. Midland Funding: Supreme Court Leaves Non-Bank Loan Assignees Exposed to State Usury Laws

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On June 27, 2016, the Supreme Court of the United States (the “Court”) denied Midland Funding LLC’s petition for certiorari in Madden v. Midland Funding, thereby letting stand a ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Second...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

Supreme Court Declines to Review Second Circuit Decision Subjecting Defaulted Debt Buyers to State Usury Laws

On June 27, the United States Supreme Court declined to review the Second Circuit’s decision in Madden v. Midland Funding, LLC, 786 F.3d 246 (2d Cir. 2015). By denying Midland Funding, LLC’s petition for a writ of...more

Morgan Lewis

Supreme Court Denies Certiorari Petition in Madden Case

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Although it is reasonably unlikely that other circuit courts will follow the Second Circuit decision, it is uncertain whether application of the Madden case in the Second Circuit will be confined to its facts....more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Leveraging Government's Brief, Midland Pushes for Cert

Capitalizing on the government's position in its brief to the U.S. Supreme Court, Midland Funding filed a supplemental brief in support of its quest to have the justices overturn a Second Circuit Court of Appeals opinion...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

SCOTUS Declines Hearing Madden: Are Industry Repercussions Limited?

In a disappointing move, the Supreme Court today denied the petition by Midland Funding to hear the case Madden v. Midland Funding. But could the inaction by the Supreme Court be much ado about nothing?...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Case Update: Midland Funding Madden – Supreme Court Denies Certiorari

The Supreme Court today denied certiorari in Midland Funding v. Madden. Although the denial leaves the Second Circuit's May 2015 decision in place, it does not signal the Supreme Court's view of the correctness of that ruling...more

Morgan Lewis

Update: Midland Funding v. Madden

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In an amicus curiae brief, the US Solicitor General recommends that the petition for certiorari in Madden be denied, but agrees that the Second Circuit’s decision is incorrect and emphasizes the importance of banks being able...more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Justice Department Sides With Financial Industry on Madden Case

Marketplace loan investors may want to "gather ye discounted Madden loans while ye may," as the Robert Herrick poem reads (taking some fintech license, of course). In the strongest rebuke yet of the U.S. Court of Appeals...more

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