With May having begun, we have entered the zone in which the Supreme Court will be announcing decisions in the most important cases of this term. Among them is Federal Communications Commission v. Consumers’ Research, a...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
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
On July 9, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the two petitions for certiorari in Collins v. Mnuchin, the en banc Fifth Circuit decision which held that the FHFA’s structure is unconstitutional because the Housing and Economic...more
The U.S. Supreme Court heard argument on March 3, 2020, in Seila Law v. CFPB. The case involves a constitutional challenge to the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) by a California law firm under...more
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday morning in Seila Law. The two questions before the Court are whether the provision in Title X of the Dodd-Frank Act that only allows the President to remove the CFPB...more
Seila Law and the CFPB filed their briefs yesterday in the U.S. Supreme Court. Both briefs address the question presented in Seila Law’s certiorari petition, which is whether the CFPB’s...more
The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled oral argument in Seila Law on March 3, 2020. The question presented in Seila Law’s petition is whether the CFPB’s single-director-removable-only-for-cause structure violates the...more
On October 18, 2019, the Supreme Court granted the petition for a writ of certiorari filed in Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. In granting the petition, the Court agreed to take up two distinct issues....more
On October 18, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review a decision from the Ninth Circuit that affirmed the constitutionality of the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB”). The CFPB is an agency...more
A&B ABstract: On October 18, 2019, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Seila Law v. CFPB to decide the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s leadership structure....more
The United States Supreme Court has granted certiorari in the matter of Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to address the question of whether the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB)...more
On Friday afternoon, the Supreme Court of the United States granted certiorari in the following four cases: Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, No. 19-7: (1) Whether the vesting of substantial executive...more
This past Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it has agreed to decide whether the CFPB’s single-director-removable-only-for-cause structure is constitutional. The Court granted Seila Law’s petition for a writ of...more
The Supreme Court of the United States issued decisions in two cases today: Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela v. Helmerich & Payne Int’l Drilling Co., No. 15-423: Respondent companies brought suit in federal court against...more