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On March 7, a cert petition was filed at the U.S. Supreme Court challenging a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on the CFPB’s payday lending rule. The petitioner, a financial services trade...more
Welcome to the “Major US Supreme Court and Appellate Cases” chapter of our annual report, Consumer Financial Services: 2024 Year in Review. The Supreme Court continues to take a close look at major administrative law...more
A panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has set March 30, 2025 as the effective date of the CFPB’s payday lending rule....more
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied a request by the Community Financial Services Association of America (CFSA) to hold a rehearing en banc on the group’s challenge of the CFPB’s payday loan rule....more
On June 14, the CFPB announced that its payday lending rule would become effective on March 30, 2025. However, the CFPB ignored the possibility of further litigation in CFSA v. CFPB, the case challenging the payday lending...more
In a blog post published at the end of last week, the CFPB announced that its payday lending rule (Rule) would go into effect on March 30, 2025. Because the Rule’s ability to pay requirements were rescinded, the only...more
By a 7-2 vote today, the U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed a challenge to the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding structure, lifting a cloud that threatened the agency's enforcement and...more
Last week, by a vote of 221-202, the House of Representatives voted to approve S.J. 32, the resolution introduced under the Congressional Review Act to override the CFPB’s final Section 1071 small business lending rule (1071...more
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
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
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
On August 21, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request by West Virginia Attorney General (AG) Patrick Morrisey and 26 other state AGs to participate in oral arguments in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) et al. v....more
On March 23, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit ruled that the CFPB’s funding mechanism is constitutional. The case, CFPB v. Law Offices of Crystal Moroney, is significant for two reasons. First, the Second...more
On February 27, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Petition for a Writ of Certiorari in the closely watched case of CFPB v. Community Financial Services Association of America, and...more
The Supreme Court granted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) request to review the Fifth Circuit’s decision in Community Financial Services Association of America v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau but so...more
On Monday, February 27, the United States Supreme Court granted the petition for a writ of certiorari in the case Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Ltd., No. 22-448,...more
On February 27, 2023, the Supreme Court granted the certiorari petition of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to hear a case that could cast doubt on all of the regulations that have been promulgated by the...more
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States granted the petitions for writs of certiorari filed in CFPB et. al. v. Com. Fin. Services Assn., where a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled...more
The CFPB recently filed a reply brief in its petition for a writ of certiorari asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that the Bureau’s funding...more
On January 13, respondents filed a brief in opposition to a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by the CFPB last November, which asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth...more
In December, the CFPB denied a petition by a debt collection agency to set aside a civil investigative demand (CID) issued last October. The company challenged the Bureau’s authority to issue the CID on the grounds that the...more
Two coalitions of state attorneys general are urging the Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of the CFPB's funding structure—albeit for vastly different reasons. The two amicus briefs were filed December 14 in...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has survived many constitutional challenges since it was created by the Consumer Financial Protection Act, 12 U.S.C. §§ 5481, et seq. (the “Act”), in 2011. But on October 19, 2022,...more
Even though I often disagree with Professor Levitin’s opinions and policy positions about consumer financial services developments, I maintain high respect for him because he is very knowledgeable in this area. Shortly after...more
On October 19, 2022, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (Fifth Circuit) held that the funding mechanism for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is unconstitutional and violates the Appropriations Clause of the...more