On May 9, 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) formally withdrew dozens of interpretive rules, policy statements, advisory opinions, bulletins, and circulars issued over the past decade…
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/ Consumer Protection, Real Estate - Residential
While uncertainty continued to loom over the CFPB, the states did not take a spring break. Instead, we saw an eye-popping settlement from NY DFS involving BSA/AML claims. And both republican and democratic AGs continued to…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking, Privacy
"No harm, no foul" is a common saying. As it turns out, that saying is sometimes true in law. An important prerequisite for a lawsuit in federal court is that the plaintiff have standing to sue…
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/ Civil Procedure, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
In March, 2025, the California Privacy Protection Agency announced a consent order with an auto manufacturer alleging multiple violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act and imposing a $632,500 fine for alleged failure to…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy
On April 24, 2025, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized a Decision and Order against an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Company (the "Company"), alleging that it made false and unsubstantiated claims about its AI Content…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection, Science, Computers, & Technology
A number of states have considered - and some have enacted - laws to regulate strategic partnerships between banks and technology companies that act as service providers…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, Science, Computers, & Technology
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" covered during the April 2025 webinar…
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/ Finance & Banking, Consumer Protection
In early March, the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office finalized the commonwealth's regulations on unfair and deceptive fees, which it refers to in its press release as "junk fee" regulations, while simultaneously issuing a…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Consumer Protection
The first two months of 2025 were filled with numerous consumer protection actions by state AGs against vehicle dealers and players in the mortgage space, among others…
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/ Finance & Banking, Consumer Protection, Transportation
If we could use only one word to describe the future of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, I think most of us would agree on the word "uncertain." However, one thing seems certain to occur as we wait to see what will…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
With attention on Democratic Attorneys General vowing to fill the void left by weakened federal regulators, and perhaps a more partisan divide on enforcement generally, a bipartisan consensus is quietly emerging in the states…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
In early March, nearly a year and a half after it was initially proposed, the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office finalized the Commonwealth's "junk fee" regulation (the "Final Rule") while simultaneously issuing a business…
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/ Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" covered during the March 2025 webinar…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Finance & Banking
On March 7, 2025, the CPPA finalized a Stipulated Order against an automobile manufacturer (the "Company") alleging multiple violations of the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") …
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Privacy
A rule governing Unfair and Deceptive Fees (940 CMR 38.00) published March 3 by the Massachusetts Attorney General sets new Total Price disclosure obligations in marketing and sales for a wide set of covered businesses,…
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/ Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection, Real Estate - Residential
