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Rent-to-Own Company Sues CFPB Over Authority to Regulate RTO Transactions

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Part 1 – The CFPB has no authority to investigate or sue Acima because, under Dodd-Frank and the appropriations Clause of the Constitution, it may only be funded out of combined earnings of the Federal Reserve System and...more

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A reply to Professor Sovern’s arguments as to why the Fed, notwithstanding its losses, can still lawfully fund the CFPB

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Although neither the CFPB, the Federal Reserve Board, nor the Treasury has responded to Professor Emeritus Hal Scott’s op-ed on May 20 in the Wall Street Journal, my interview with Professor Scott on our Consumer Finance...more

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Striking a Balance: The Supreme Court and the Future of Chevron Deference

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In its frequent attempts to enforce the separation of powers that the Constitution’s framers devised as a system of checks and balances among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the federal government, it is...more

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FTC Constitutional Challenge Update: Fifth Circuit Delivers Illumina a Stocking Full of Coal

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Last week, the Fifth Circuit handed down an across-the-board rejection of four constitutional challenges raised by gene sequencing company Illumina in defending against the Federal Trade Commission’s merger challenge. Bah!...more

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Small Business Lenders Score Big Relief: Texas Federal District Court Grants Nationwide Injunction Against CFPB’s Implementation...

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In a major victory for small business lenders, yesterday the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas granted motions filed by three groups of trade association intervenors to extend the court’s existing...more

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Clues On High Court Outcome In CFPB Constitutionality Case

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On October 3, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, the latest in a long line of cases targeting the constitutionality...more

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Tracking the Impact of Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy and Other Constitutional Challenges Against the FTC

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In recent years, independent agencies have continued to face a number of constitutional and statutory challenges before the Supreme Court. AMG Capital Management struck down the Federal Trade Commission’s authority to obtain...more

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The Validity of More Than a Decade’s Worth of Federal Regulations Are at Stake as the U.S. Supreme Court Decides the...

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On October 3, 2023, the United States Supreme Court heard oral argument in Community Financial Services Association of America Ltd., et al. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al., in which the Court was asked to...more

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C[FPB] You Later? Agency’s Future Hangs in the Balance After Oral Argument

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On October 3, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, where the Court is reviewing the Fifth Circuit’s opinion that struck...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Hears Oral Argument on Whether CFPB's Funding Mechanism Is Constitutional

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On October 3, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America. At issue is the constitutionality of the CFPB's funding structure,...more

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Several Trade Associations Join Calls to CFPB to Stay Implementation of its Section 1071 Final Rule

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On August 18, the American Financial Services Association, Consumer Bankers Association, CRE Finance Council, Equipment Leasing and Finance Association, Mortgage Bankers Association, National Association of Federally-Insured...more

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Sixth Circuit Rejects Constitutional Challenge to OSHA's Rulemaking Authority

Under constitutional law, the nondelegation doctrine prevents Congress from adopting laws that give administrative agencies overly broad discretion to adopt regulations that usurp its legislative authority. Recently, the...more

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16 amicus briefs filed with SCOTUS in support of CFSA’s position that CFPB’s funding mechanism is unconstitutional

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Sixteen amicus briefs have been filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the position of the Community Financial Services Association of America (CFSA) that the Court should affirm the Fifth Circuit panel decision in...more

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Eleventh Circuit Confirms Refunds as the Remedy for Overpayment of U.S. Trustee Fees

We have previously discussed the growing list of judicial decisions addressing the appropriate remedy for overpayment of U.S. Trustee (“UST”) quarterly fees.  In U.S. Tr. Region 21 v. Bast Amron LLP (In re Mosaic Mgmt. Grp.,...more

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U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Nondelegation Case

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The U.S. Supreme Court on June 30, 2023, agreed to hear the case of SEC v. Jarkesy.1 The case is an appeal of a U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decision that held that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's...more

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Supreme Court Ruling Questions Constitutionality of FTC’s and SEC’s Administrative Adjudications Processes - Is OSHA Next?

On April 14, 2023, the Supreme Court of the United States opened the door for new challenges to the federal administrative state. In a unanimous decision in a pair of consolidated cases, Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. Federal Trade...more

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Supreme Court Clears the Way for Constitutional Challenges to SEC, FTC Administrative Forums in Federal District Court

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In Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. FTC and SEC v. Cochran, the respondents in administrative agency enforcement actions brought suit in federal district court, challenging the constitutionality of each respective agency’s attempt to...more

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Supreme Court Allows Structural Constitutional Challenges to FTC and SEC Proceedings in Federal District Court

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in two related cases, Axon Enterprise Inc. v. FTC (No. 21-86) and SEC v. Cochran (No. 21-1239), that federal district courts have jurisdiction to hear structural constitutional challenges to the...more

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Supreme Court Holds That Respondents in Agency Enforcement Actions May Raise Constitutional Challenges Outside of Administrative...

On April 14, 2023, in a decision involving appeals regarding two separate agency enforcement actions, the Supreme Court unanimously held that respondents in such actions may raise certain constitutional challenges outside of...more

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Client Alert: Supreme Court Permits Constitutional Challenges to Administrative Agencies While an Enforcement Proceeding Is...

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On April 14, 2023, in Axon Enterprise, Inc. v. Federal Trade Commission and the companion case Cochran v. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Supreme Court held that district courts have jurisdiction to hear structural...more

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SCOTUS decision allowing constitutional challenges to FTC and SEC to be brought in federal district court has broader implications

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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that parties seeking to challenge the constitutionality of the structure of the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission cannot be required to raise such...more

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Supreme Court Expands the Path to Challenge the Authority of Administrative Agencies in Federal Court

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Consistent with federal courts’ recent pattern of limiting the reach of administrative agencies, the Supreme Court held on April 14, 2023, that a challenge to the constitutional authority of an administrative law judge...more

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Supreme Court's 9-0 Ruling Paves Way for Constitutional Challenges to Administrative Proceedings

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The U.S. Supreme Court on April 14, 2023, issued a unanimous opinion holding that federal district courts can consider constitutional challenges to administrative proceedings before such agencies issue final rulings. In Axon...more

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Court’s Ruling Against FTC and SEC May Signal Future Limits on Agency Autonomy: SCOTUS Today

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While the substantial backlog of decisions has many observers waiting for a flood of rulings, the Supreme Court is moving at its own pace. Thus, the Court has issued a single opinion today, but especially for readers who are...more

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Supreme Court Holds that Constitutional Challenges to Administrative Agencies’ Structure Can Be Brought in District Court

The Supreme Court held today that constitutional challenges to administrative agencies’ structure can be brought in federal district court and need not be raised through an administrative proceeding with subsequent appellate...more

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