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Ousted Democratic NCUA board members file suit

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The two Democratic NCUA board members ousted by President Trump have filed suit, arguing that their firings violated federal law....more

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Two former Democratic FTC commissioners file suit over dismissal

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The two Democratic FTC members who were fired by President Trump have filed suit in federal court challenging their dismissal....more

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CFSA Attempts to Renew Small Dollar Lending Rule Litigation in Supreme Court Petition

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On March 7, the Community Financial Services Association of America (CFSA) and the Consumer Service Alliance of Texas filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn a decision by the...more

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NLRB Board Member Challenges President Trump’s Executive Power

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On September 6, 2023, Democratic member Gwynne Wilcox was appointed to the NLRB by former President Joe Biden. Her five-year term was scheduled to end in 2028. ...more

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Former NLRB Member Wilcox Files Suit Challenging Removal

President Donald Trump’s efforts to alter the make up of the Board membership of the NLRB faces a new, but anticipated, legal challenge. Recently fired former Board Member Gwynne Wilcox has challenged her January 27th removal...more

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Court Rules DOL's ALJ Enforcement Scheme Likely Unconstitutional

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A government contractor challenged a U.S. Department of Labor ("DOL") Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs ("OFCCP") enforcement scheme in federal court as violating the United States Constitution. The contractor...more

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SCOTUS denies cert. in case regarding agency independence

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This PubCo post highlighted a petition for cert. filed this term to review the Fifth Circuit decision, Consumers’ Research v. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Below is a brief update on the outcome. The expectation was...more

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Judge Newman and the On-Going Attempts to Remove Her from the Federal Circuit

The efforts to have Judge Pauline Newman, Circuit Judge on the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, unfit or guilty of misconduct have been the subject of reporting in the patent blogosphere (Patently-O, IP Watchdog),...more

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9th Circuit orders district court to reassess $7.9 million civil penalty against payments company

On January 27, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ordered a district court to reassess its decision “under the changed legal landscape since its initial order and opinion” in an action concerning alleged...more

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Fifth Circuit Rules that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is Unconstitutionally Funded: What Does the Decision Mean? A...

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In a decision with enormous potential implications, a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that the manner in which the CFPB is funded violates the Appropriations Clause of...more

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Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Finds CFPB Funding Mechanism Unconstitutional Violation of Appropriations Clause

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On October 19, 2022, three judges in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the funding mechanism of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is unconstitutional. Specifically, the court found CFPB’s receiving...more

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A new dark cloud descends: Fifth Circuit panel rules that CFPB funding mechanism is unconstitutional

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With the dark cloud over the CFPB that was the constitutional challenge to the for-cause limit on removal of its Director having mostly lifted, a new and even darker cloud has descended in the form of another constitutional...more

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Utah federal court rejects constitutional challenge to CFPB’s funding mechanism

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A Utah federal district court has rejected the attempt of The Center for Excellence in Higher Education (CEHE) to invalidate a civil investigative demand (CID) issued by the CFPB based on a challenge to the constitutionality...more

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Settlement discussions to continue in All American Check Cashing

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The magistrate judge assigned to hold a settlement conference in All American Check Cashing has issued an order stating that the matter did not settle at the settlement conference conducted on September 7.  The order also...more

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Fifth Circuit Bombshell on SEC ALJs Raises Questions about DEA ALJs

In a decision that likely will reverberate throughout the administrative state, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently held in Jarkesy v. Securities and Exchange Commission...more

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En Banc Fifth Circuit Rules CFPB Enforcement Action Can Proceed Against All American Check Cashing, but Concurring Opinion Creates...

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The en banc U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has ruled that the CFPB’s enforcement action against All American Check Cashing can proceed despite the unconstitutionality of the CFPB’s...more

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The Administrative State Under Attack: Potentially Far Reaching Implications of Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear Challenge to FTC...

In 1984, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that courts must defer to an administrative agency’s reasonable interpretation of an ambiguous statute. But last year, the Supreme Court stripped the FTC of its ability to seek...more

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Fifth Circuit Holds District Court Has Jurisdiction to Hear Constitutional Challenge to SEC Administrative Law Judges

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The Fifth Circuit's opinion creates a circuit split that raises the possibility of a Supreme Court review. On December 13, 2021, the Fifth Circuit issued an en banc opinion in Cochran v. U.S. Securities & Exchange...more

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RD Legal Funding asks SCOTUS to decide if CFPB can ratify pre-Seila Law actions

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RD Legal Funding has filed a petition for a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court that asks the Court to decide whether the CFPB can ratify actions taken when it was unconstitutionally structured....more

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Ninth Circuit rules CID issued to Seila Law was validly ratified by Director Kraninger

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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

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Ninth Circuit hears oral argument in Seila Law on remand from SCOTUS

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Last Thursday, on remand from the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral argument in Seila Law. The members of the three judge panel were Judge Susan Graber and Judge Paul Watford...more

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Fifth Circuit Agrees to Rehear En Banc Whether Federal Courts Can Decide Constitutionality of Removal Protections for SEC’s...

On Oct. 30, 2020, the Fifth Circuit agreed to rehear en banc a case challenging the constitutionality of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) administrative proceedings on the ground that the agency “is violating...more

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Second Circuit sends CFPB ratification issue back to district court in RD Legal Funding

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Less than one month after hearing oral argument in RD Legal Funding, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has issued a summary order affirming the district court’s holding that the Dodd-Frank Act’s...more

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Second Circuit hears oral argument in RD Legal Funding

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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

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Seila Law files supplemental brief with Ninth Circuit

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Last week, Seila Law filed its supplemental brief with the Ninth Circuit. The CFPB filed its supplemental brief last month....more

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