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Texas Judge Rules CFPB Did Not Exceed Authority in Issuing Small Business Reporting Rule

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In a tentative win for the CFPB, a federal judge in Texas ruled on August 26, 2024, that the agency did not exceed its authority when it issued its final Section 1071 small business lending rule. The court also rejected...more

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Legal Challenges to Small-Business ‎Data Collection Rule Dwindle as Texas Court Sides With CFPB

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On August 26, 2024, a federal district court for the Southern District of Texas granted summary judgment in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s favor and rejected a challenge to the CFPB’s Final Rule regarding section...more

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NCLC Asks CFPB to Consider Residential Leases as Credit for Specific Purposes

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The National Consumer Law Center is asking the CFPB, by way of a petition, for rulemaking that is long on policy arguments but woefully short on legal support, as we note below, to define residential leases as “credit” under...more

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Kentucky Court Grants a Stay of Case Pending a Decision in the Texas Small Business Lending Lawsuit

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On August 7, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky granted the CFPB’s motion to stay the small business lending rule litigation before the court until resolution of the similar case pending in the...more

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Applying Loper Bright, the Seventh Circuit Holds that ECOA Protects Prospective Applicants

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The Seventh Circuit recently issued one of the first appellate decisions to apply the US Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, 144 S. Ct. 2244 (2024). In Loper Bright, the Supreme Court ended...more

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CFPB Bites of the Month - July 2024

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In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" for the prior and current month covered during the July 2024 webinar....more

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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Townstone Financial, Inc.

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On July 11, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Townstone Financial, Inc. that the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (“ECOA”) protects prospective applicants and...more

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CFPB v. Townstone Financial - 7th Circuit Expands Equal Credit Opportunity Act Claims to “Potential Applicants” in Redlining...

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On July 11, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit held in Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection v. Townstone Financial, Inc., that the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (“ECOA”) prohibits discriminatory conduct,...more

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7th Circuit Holds ECOA Protections Apply to Prospective Applicants

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In a major win for the CFPB, in CFPB v. Townstone Financial, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (7th Circuit) recently held that the Regulation B provision prohibiting discrimination under the Equal...more

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Seventh Circuit Revives CFPB’s ECOA Action Alleging Discrimination Against Prospective Applicants Against Nonbank Lender

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On July 11, the Seventh Circuit held that the Equal Credit Opportunity Act, 15 U.S.C. § 1691 et seq. (ECOA) authorizes the imposition of liability for the discouragement of prospective applicants. See CFPB v. Townstone...more

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7th Circuit reverses district court, holds ECOA prohibits discouragement of prospective applicants for credit

On July 11, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit reversed a district court’s decision to dismiss the CFPB’s claims that a Chicago-based nonbank mortgage company and its owner violated ECOA by engaging in...more

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Seventh Circuit Reverses District Court Decision, Expands ECOA to Include Prospective Applicants

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As discussed here, on February 3, 2023, an Illinois federal court dismissed a case brought by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) in 2020 against Townstone Financial, Inc., a Chicago mortgage lender, for...more

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CFPB Wins Big Reversal in Illinois Redlining Lawsuit

On July 11, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court’s decision dismissing a CFPB action against an Illinois-based mortgage lender and its owner for violations of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act....more

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The Supreme Court’s Overruling of Chevron is a Sea Change

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We already have published a short blog about the Supreme Court’s opinion issued on Friday, July 28 in Loper Bright Enterprises et al v. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al, No. 22-451....more

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DACA Recipient Accuses California Credit Union of ECOA Violations

On May 3, a California resident filed a class action lawsuit in federal court accusing a Los Angeles-based credit union of discriminatory practices, and raised a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1981, and violations of...more

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CFPB approves of Illinois’ new regulations on appraisal discrimination

On April 9, the CFPB released a comment letter supporting the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation’s decision to propose three rules prohibiting discrimination related to appraisals. The CFPB...more

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Walden University Agrees to Proposed Settlement to Resolve Reverse Redlining Claims

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On March 28, 2024, four former Walden University students (“Plaintiffs”) filed a proposed settlement both individually and on behalf of a putative class of current and former Walden University (“Walden”) students with the...more

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FTC provides its 2023 ECOA activities to CFPB

On February 12, the FTC provided the CFPB with an annual summary of its 2023 enforcement, research and policy development, and educational-related initiatives on ECOA, as Dodd-Frank allows the Commission to enforce ECOA and...more

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February 2024 Regulatory Round-Up

As February already begins to wind down and all of us are wondering what we might have missed so far this year, here is a round-up of additional regulatory activities in financial services...more

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2023 Year in Review: Credit Reporting

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Welcome to the Credit Reporting chapter of our annual report Consumer Financial Services 2023 Year in Review. Looking Ahead to 2024 - The CFPB’s announcement of a proposed rulemaking to remove medical bills from...more

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A Closer Look at NCUA’s Consumer Financial Protection and Compliance Expectations

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As discussed, in a recent letter, the Chairman of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) outlined the agency’s supervisory priorities for 2024. In this post, we delve deeper into the area of consumer protection...more

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Wiley Consumer Protection Download (February 6, 2024)

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Welcome to Wiley’s update on recent developments and what’s next in consumer protection at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC). In this newsletter, we analyze recent regulatory...more

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CFPB Applies Adverse Action Notification Requirement to Artificial Intelligence Models

As technology continues to advance, regulators are increasingly addressing the fair lending implications of artificial intelligence (AI), even though comprehensive rules governing AI have yet to be promulgated. Notably, the...more

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CFPB Bites of the Month - 2023 Annual Review - Mortgage

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In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2023 applicable to mortgage along with some additional related information. ...more

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CFPB Bites of the Month - 2023 Annual Review - Nondiscrimination and Military Protection Law

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In this article, we share a timeline of our monthly "bites" for 2023 applicable to consumers protected by nondiscrimination and military protection laws....more

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