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The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is a United States federal statute signed into law on July 21, 2010. The Act was passed in response to the Great Recession of the late 2000s and... more +
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act is a United States federal statute signed into law on July 21, 2010. The Act was passed in response to the Great Recession of the late 2000s and includes broad reforms related to many aspects of the financial and banking industry. Notable sections of the Act include stricter regulations of the derivatives market, as well as the Volcker Rule, which restricts the trading practices of FDIC-insured institutions.    less -
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CFPB files its reply brief in support of the CFPB’s motion to dissolve the preliminary injunction in the credit card late fee...

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On August 22, 2024, the CFPB filed its reply brief in support of its motion to dissolve the preliminary injunction and lift the stay of the CFPB’s credit card late fee final rule (“Rule”) in the lawsuit challenging the Rule....more

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Plaintiffs file their brief in opposition to CFPB’s motion to dissolve the preliminary injunction in the credit card late fee...

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On August 8, 2024, the plaintiffs filed their brief in opposition to the CFPB’s motion to dissolve the preliminary injunction in the lawsuit challenging the CFPB’s credit card late fee final rule (“Rule”). In their brief, the...more

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Another target of CFPB enforcement action argues that lawsuit filed on August 23, 2023 must be dismissed because the CFPB lacked...

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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

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Populus files motion to dismiss CFPB enforcement action based on fact that CFPB has been unlawfully funded by Fed when it had no...

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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

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FDIC Moves to Dismiss Lawsuit Challenging NSF Fee Guidance

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The FDIC has filed motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed in July 2023 in a Minnesota federal district against the FDIC and its Chairman seeking to invalidate the FDIC’s supervisory guidance on charging multiple non-sufficient...more

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OCC files to motion to dismiss CSBS lawsuit seeking to block OCC approval of Figure Technologies charter application

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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) in D.C. federal district court seeking to block the OCC from granting a national...more

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Ga. District Court Dismisses Dodd-Frank and SOX Whistleblower Claims

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On September 30, 2020, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia granted an employer’s motion to dismiss a Dodd-Frank whistleblower claim on the ground that the alleged whistleblower did not complain to the...more

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Federal Court Allows SOX Whistleblower Claim To Proceed But Dismisses Dodd-Frank Claim

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On October 2, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania federal court denied a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss a SOX whistleblower retaliation claim, reasoning that Plaintiff sufficiently alleged...more

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Federal Court Allows SOX Whistleblower Claim To Proceed But Dismisses Dodd-Frank Claim

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On October 2, 2018, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania federal court denied a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss a SOX whistleblower retaliation claim, reasoning that Plaintiff sufficiently alleged...more

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Court Rules Cryptocurrencies Can Be Regulated By The CFTC As Commodities

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The regulatory landscape surrounding cryptocurrency continues to evolve. Most of the activity to date has involved regulatory enforcement actions brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and Commodity Futures...more

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RD Legal Funding files answer to complaint in CFPB/NYAG lawsuit

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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

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RD Legal Funding and NYAG outline plans for proceeding in SDNY lawsuit

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RD Legal Funding and the New York Attorney General have filed a joint submission with Judge Preska of the Southern District of New York regarding how they propose to proceed in the CFPB’s and NYAG’s lawsuit against RD Legal...more

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S.D.N.Y Dismisses Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Action

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On February 5, 2018, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York granted Defendant Khan Funds Management America, Inc.’s Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss a whistleblower retaliation claim under Dodd-Frank on the...more

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S.D. Fla. Refuses To Dismiss SOX and Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Claims

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The Southern District of Florida recently denied a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss a former employee’s Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd-Frank whistleblower retaliation claims, finding that the plaintiff sufficiently alleged that she...more

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N.D.N.Y. Refuses to Dismiss Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Claim

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The Northern District of New York recently denied a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss a former employee’s Dodd-Frank whistleblower retaliation claim, finding that the plaintiff sufficiently alleged that he had an objectively...more

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Purported Whistleblower Barred from Pursuing Illinois Retaliatory Discharge Claim

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The Northern District of Illinois recently dismissed an Indiana-based employee’s claims for retaliatory discharge in violation of common law, focusing on the nature of the connection (or lack thereof) to Illinois and noting...more

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E.D. Virginia Tosses Dodd-Frank Whistleblower Claim for Lack of SEC Complaint

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The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia recently granted a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss a Dodd-Frank whistleblower retaliation claim brought by an ex-project manager, finding that Plaintiff failed to...more

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Tennessee District Court: Dodd-Frank is Not a General Anti-Retaliation Law

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The United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee recently emphasized the limited scope of what constitutes protected activity under the Dodd-Frank Act’s (the Act) whistleblower protection provision,...more

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The Northern District of New York Applies the “Reasonable Belief” Standard

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On May 11, 2017, the Northern District of New York applied the Second Circuit’s standard for evaluating a Dodd-Frank retaliation claim in response to a motion to dismiss under F.R.C.P. Rule 12(b)(6). The court denied the...more

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A Divided Ninth Circuit Extends Dodd-Frank's Anti-Retaliation Protection for Whistleblowers

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Without a bright line requirement of an SEC contact to trigger whistleblower status, employers may not learn until after termination that an employee claims to be a whistleblower. Employees often raise internal questions,...more

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Ninth Circuit Joins Second Circuit in Adopting Broad Definition of “Whistleblower” Under The Dodd-Frank Act

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A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently ruled in Somers v. Digital Realty Trust Inc. that the Dodd-Frank Act’s definition of “whistleblower” includes not only those who disclose information...more

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Japan’s SoftBank hasn’t been shy about bold moves, but its most recent one—the decision to buy American PE giant Fortress Investment Group—is an especially big one. The deal is seen as bolstering SoftBank’s recently announced...more

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SDNY Refuses to Dismiss Executive’s Dodd-Frank Retaliation Claim

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On August 24, 2016, the Southern District of New York denied Defendants’ motion to dismiss a Dodd-Frank whistleblower retaliation claim brought by its former co-CEO and Executive Chairman of its Board of Directors, finding...more

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Wisconsin District Court Follows 5th Circuit: Internal Tipsters Are Not Considered “Whistleblowers” Under Dodd-Frank

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On August 12, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin in Lamb v. Rockwell Automation Inc., No. 15-CV-1415-JPS (E.D. Wis. Aug. 12, 2016) held that the Dodd-Frank whistleblower protection provision...more

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N.D. Cal.: Internal Whistleblowers Are Protected and May Sue Individual Directors

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On October 23, 2015, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California largely denied a motion to dismiss a whistleblower retaliation claim brought by a company’s former general counsel, ruling that: (I) the SOX...more

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