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Year in Review: CCPA Litigation Trends from 2023

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This post is part of a series of articles we are doing on 2023 data protection litigation trends. While the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is most known for its onerous privacy compliance obligations, the law also...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Federal Agency Settlements with Wells Fargo Illustrate Sanctions Risks Involving IT Systems

Key Points - On March 30, 2023, OFAC announced a settlement agreement with Wells Fargo for 124 apparent violations of three different sanctions programs (Iran, Syria and Sudan), all related to a legacy Wachovia Bank...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

Compliance into the Weeds: Wells WAC-O Spending

Compliance into the Weeds is the only weekly podcast which takes a deep dive into a compliance related topic, literally going into the weeds to more fully explore a subject. In this episode Matt Kelly and Tom Fox consider the...more

Allen Matkins

California Law Requires Banks To Disregard Notice of Adverse Claims To Accounts

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In an all too familiar story, an insurance company's managing agent was tricked into transferring nearly $2 million into the fraudster's account at Wells Fargo Bank. The plaintiffs then sued the bank alleging that after...more

Balch & Bingham LLP

Eleventh Circuit: No Waiver of Arbitration Rights Despite Waiting for Class Certification

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In a win for defendants, the Eleventh Circuit recently held that a party does not waive its right to compel arbitration for the claims of unnamed class members even if it has waived that right as to the named class...more

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Insight from CFPB Regarding Employee Incentives in the Wake of Wells Fargo Consent Order

This past November, in the wake of the Wells Fargo debacle, the CFPB issued a Compliance Bulletin which addressed employee incentives and the consumer risks associated with them. CFPB Compliance Bulletins are non-binding...more

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Focus On Enabling Your People, Not Controlling Them, To Create an Effective Compliance Culture

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When employees of all levels believe in and support policies and standards, that’s when you see real compliance. In-house perspective from NetApp GC, Matt Fawcett....more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

FCPA Compliance Report-Episode 284, Mike Scher

In this episode, I visit with Mike Scher on our upcoming panel at the FCPA Blog NYC Conference on Oct. 26th. We preview our panel by looking at the compliance response to the Wells Fargo scandal in the context of whom does...more

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

Where’s the (TCPA) Harm in That?

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Spokeo v. Robins that plaintiffs must allege a concrete and particularized injury to meet Article III standing requirements, federal district courts across the country are...more

Burr & Forman

District Court Holds Professional Plaintiff Lacks Article III Standing to Bring TCPA Action Under Supreme Court’s Spokeo, Inc. v....

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Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Spokeo, Inc. v. Robins, 136 S. Ct. 1540 (U.S. May 16, 2016), it is clear that “Article III standing requires a concrete injury even in the context of a statutory violation,” such that a...more

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP

The Big Three: The 9th Circuit Joins The 6th Circuit and 7th Circuit in Holding That Sanctions For Bad-Faith Litigation Tactics...

In Law v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. (2015 S.O.S. 13–56099 – filed August 27, 2015), the Ninth Circuit joined the shortlist of Circuit Courts to hold that sanctions for bad-faith litigation tactics under 28 U.S.C. section 1927...more

Baker Donelson

When the Minimum is Not Enough: Eleventh Circuit Rules that Lenders May Require Borrowers to Obtain More than the Minimum Flood...

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The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit recently resolved a district court split regarding minimum flood insurance coverage by holding that a lender may require a borrower who has a federally-insured...more

Brooks Pierce

A Million Dollars In Fees For Class Counsel in Wachovia/Wells Fargo Merger Lawsuit

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When I first looked at Judge Murphy's (unpublished) Order in Ehrenhaus v. Baker earlier this month awarding attorneys' fees to the class action attorneys who sued Wachovia and Wells Fargo over their merger in 2008, I was...more

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