Understanding the New DEI Executive Order: What's the Tea in L&E?
In a recent decision, a New Jersey court reaffirmed the Judiciary Branch’s exclusive constitutional authority to regulate the practice of law within the state. The case involved a challenge to the “limited attorney exemption”...more
UPDATED 5/30/2024: Prop. 209 became law on December 5, 2022, but was immediately challenged by the Arizona Creditors Bar Association and several other organizations as unconstitutionally vague and internally inconsistent....more
On April 5, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an order effectively reversing the district court’s decision to transfer the lawsuit challenging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB or Bureau)...more
U.S. District Court Judge Richard Stearns issued an order on May 6, 2020, finding that the two primary features of the Massachusetts Attorney General's COVID-19 debt collection regulation — a ban on debt collector initiated...more
On December 2, 2019, the United States government submitted a brief to the Supreme Court urging it to deny review of a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling holding a provision of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA)...more