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Arbitration Clauses in Employee Contracts and Beyond
Earlier last week, a group of consumer advocate organizations filed a Petition for Rulemaking with the CFPB that would prohibit the use of pre-dispute arbitration clauses in consumer contracts in favor of arbitration clauses...more
A group of small businesses and their individual owners have filed a putative class action lawsuit in a New York federal district court against online lender Kabbage, Inc. that alleges Kabbage engaged in a “rent-a-charter”...more
This past Friday, by a vote of 225-186, the House passed H.R. 1423, the “Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act.” A Senate companion bill (S. 610) was introduced in February 2019 and referred to the Senate Judiciary...more
GC Services Limited Partnership (“GC Services”), a debt collector hired by a bank to collect an allegedly unpaid balance on a credit card, advised plaintiff Francina Smith (“Smith”) that it would commence a collection...more
The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis was extended by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit last week in Gaffers v. Kelly Services, Inc. ...more
On October 24, 2017, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution disapproving the Arbitration Agreements Final Rule (“Rule”) enacted earlier this year by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”). The Rule sought to prohibit...more
Financial Institutions may need to revise consumer contracts to remove class action waivers in preparation for a March 2018 federal rule. On July 19, the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the federal regulator for...more
In a Legal Alert posted earlier this month, Kilpatrick Townsend’s Financial Institutions Team highlighted the key provisions of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Arbitration Agreements Final Rule, 82 Fed. Reg. 33210...more
On July 10, 2017, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a new rule that would make it easier for consumers to bring class action lawsuits against financial institutions. The new rule bans financial...more
The Federal Register published today the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) final rule that was announced last week and would prohibit providers of covered consumer financial products and services from using...more
On July 19, 2017, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published the final Arbitration Agreements Rule (the rule) that would impact the way claims involving consumer financial products and services are handled in...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (the “CFPB”) issued a final rule on July 10, 2017 that has received widespread attention. The rule, promulgated pursuant to section 1028(b) of the Dodd-Frank Act, generally regulates...more
Editor's Note - Fireworks After the July 4th Holiday. On July 10, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued the highly anticipated final Arbitration Rule, which prohibits the use of mandatory arbitration...more
On July 10, 2017, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a final Rule banning the use of class action waivers in a broad range of consumer finance agreements. The Rule, which was expected in light of prior...more
On July 10, 2017, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”) issued a final rule (“Arbitration Rule”) prohibiting banks, debt servicers, credit card companies, and a wide range of other businesses from using...more
On July 10, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) issued a final rule governing agreements that provide for the arbitration of any future disputes between consumers and providers of certain consumer...more
On July 10, 2017, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued its final arbitration rule prohibiting covered providers of certain “consumer financial products or services”1 from using a pre-dispute arbitration...more
The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has taken a firm stance on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposed ban on "mandatory arbitration" clauses that make financial product consumers waive their right...more
In May, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed a ban on “mandatory arbitration” contract clauses that make financial products consumers waive their right to join class actions. Broker-dealers,...more
After the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 authorized its creation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) began operating on July 21, 2011. In the more than five years since it...more
The American Bankers Association, the Consumer Bankers Association and The Financial Services Roundtable (Associations) have filed a joint letter commenting on the CFPB’s proposed rule regulating consumer arbitration...more
By a vote of 236-181, the House of Representatives rejected an amendment offered by two Democratic Congressman to H.R. 5485, the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act, which covers appropriations for...more
In May 2016, the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) proposed, and requested public comments on, a new rule intended to limit the use of mandatory pre-dispute arbitration clauses in agreements governing a wide...more
On May 5, 2016, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a long awaited and highly controversial proposed rule that, if adopted, would prohibit certain financial services companies from banning consumer class...more
On May 5, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) published a proposed rule which would prohibit application of pre-dispute arbitration agreements to class litigation involving a broad range of consumer...more