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Today’s podcast features Stephen Calkins, a law professor at Wayne State University in Detroit and former General Counsel of the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”). President Trump recently fired, without good cause, the...more
Welcome to your monthly rundown of all things administrative law, where we highlight all the happenings you may have missed....more
We have recently blogged about two other actions in which this issue has been raised (one being a declaratory judgment action filed against the CFPB on July 23, 2024 in the E.D. Tex. and the other being an enforcement action...more
We have previously blogged about an enforcement action brought on July 12, 2022 by the CFPB against Populus Financial Group, Inc., d/b/a ACE Cash Express, Inc. in Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas...more
On Thursday, June 27, the Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, held that the Seventh Amendment entitles a defendant to a jury trial in instances where the SEC seeks civil penalties against that defendant for alleged securities...more
In a 6-3 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the administrative adjudication by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of securities fraud cases seeking civil penalties violates the Seventh Amendment right to a...more
On May 16, the United States Supreme Court, in a 7-2 ruling, held that the CFPB’s funding mechanism does not violate the Appropriations Clause of the U.S. Constitution. As we previously discussed in greater detail, under the...more
Less than six weeks after hearing oral argument, a unanimous panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the CID issued to Seila Law was validly ratified by Director Kraninger and affirmed the district...more
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit heard oral argument in RD Legal Funding. The three judge panel consisted of two members of the Second Circuit, Judge Denny Chin and Senior Judge Barrington Parker,...more
On August 18, Judge Kenneth M. Karas of the Southern District of New York, granted the CFPB’s petition to enforce a civil investigative demand that it issued to the Law Offices of Crystal Moroney prior to the U.S. Supreme...more
In This Issue. The U.S. Supreme Court struck down the single director leadership structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) in a ruling that could have far-reaching implications for the CFPB and other...more
On October 18, 2019, the Supreme Court granted the petition for a writ of certiorari filed in Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In granting the petition, the Court agreed to take up two distinct issues....more
The Supreme Court has granted certiorari to hear a challenge to the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). While the CFPB won in the Ninth Circuit, the agency has since changed its mind and now...more
RD Legal Funding has filed an answer to the complaint in the lawsuit filed against it by the CFPB and New York Attorney General (NYAG)....more
The CFPB will soon need to decide how it will respond to the decision issued last week by Judge Preska of the Southern District of New York in RD Legal Funding finding that the CFPB’s single-director-removable-only-for-cause...more
Last week, the Bank for International Settlements strongly criticized cryptocurrencies, claiming that trust in digital tokens could disappear at any time because of the “fragility of the decentralized consensus through which...more
The Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection has once again been deemed unconstitutional, this time in an opinion issued on June 21, 2018, by Loretta A. Preska, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York,...more
As anyone who is associated with the residential real estate settlement services industry can appreciate, resolution of the PHH case by the full bench of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has brought much-needed clarity and...more
On January 29, 2018, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced the filing of eight anti-spoofing enforcement actions: three settlements with financial institutions and five complaints filed in federal district...more
Earlier yesterday, at the Practicing Law Institute’s (“PLI”) 22nd Annual Consumer Financial Services Institute in New York City, Alan Kaplinsky (who is co-chairing the event) moderated a panel entitled “The CFPB Speaks,” that...more
Since its inception in July 2011, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has sought to prove itself as a powerful regulator through significant enforcement actions and settlements. In 2016, the CFPB continued to...more
Here are the highlights from Richard Cordray’s interview earlier today with the Wall Street Journal. He refused to respond to the question of whether or not the memo issued on January 20 on behalf of President Trump by...more
2016 was an active year in securities litigation. In the first half of 2016 alone, plaintiffs filed 119 new federal class action securities cases. It was also a busy year for SEC enforcement proceedings, with a record 868...more
The D.C. federal district court has rejected the plaintiffs’ attempt in State National Bank of Big Spring, Texas, et al. v. Lew, et al. to invalidate the actions taken by Director Cordray while he was a recess appointee. The...more