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As the industry continues to digest the Fifth Circuit’s opinion in Community Financial Services Association of America, Ltd. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which held the Bureau’s funding mechanism to be...more
The CFPB has issued a procedural rule that updates its Rules of Practice for Adjudication Proceedings (Rules of Practice) and a request for comment. The procedural rule is effective February 22, 2022. However, the Bureau...more
Following eight years of Republican majorities in Congress, Democrats took control of the House of Representatives in January 2019, thereby regaining the ability to control committee and subcommittee agendas, hold hearings...more
The expansiveness of FCRA has long been used by plaintiffs as a sword against consumer reporting agencies, furnishers of consumer information, and users of consumer information. Here, a company successfully used FCRA as a...more
Many observers have reported on leadership changes at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) and the potential shifts in policy priorities that may follow. However, in the new year, among the most interesting...more
In the wake of last year’s (now-vacated and pending review en banc) decision by the D.C. Circuit in PHH Corp. v. Consumer Fin. Prot. Bureau, 839 F.3d 1 (D.C. Cir. 2016), the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial...more
On January 20, 2017, in CFPB v. Great Plains Lending, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s civil investigative demands for documents from lending...more
For many public companies, the first issue they have to confront after they receive a government subpoena or Civil Investigative Demand (“CID”) is whether to disclose publicly that they are under investigation. Curiously, the...more
Republican Congressman Jeb Hensarling, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, has established a new policy for using his authority to issue subpoenas to the CFPB and other agency’s subject to the Committee’s...more
According to a Politico report, the House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations voted yesterday to issue three subpoenas in connection with the Subcommittee’s investigation into alleged...more
The U.S. government continues to ramp up investigations and enforcement actions against banks, mortgage companies and other financial services companies, including using tools such as the False Claims Act and its power to...more