Case Law

Accusing the agencies of neglecting to protect student loan borrowers from bad actors, a nonprofit group filed suit against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Department of Education (DOE).

The lawsuit claims the group is overwhelmed with requests from harmed student loan borrowers as a result of the agencies’ failure to act according to applicable statutes.

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The Supreme Court has scheduled oral arguments in a case challenging the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) for March 3.

The nation’s high court is tasked with reviewing a ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court in the case of Seila Law, LLC v. CFPB at the encouragement of the Department of Justice and CFPB Director Kathy Kraninger.

Find out more details about the scheduled hearing.

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Millions of Americans who expected in December to receive either raises or access to overtime pay previously not available to them find Dec. 1 to look strikingly similar to Nov. 30, after a Texas district court ruling last week that stayed the Department of Labor’s final rule changing overtime mandates for workers.

The preliminary injunction, issued nationwide, keeps the status quo from a rule which was finalized May 27 and scheduled to take effect at the start of December. However, the Labor Department has appealed the injunction to the 

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The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) recently filed a memorandum requesting dismissal of the lawsuit filed by the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) challenging NCUA’s final rule in March 2016 that changed the standards for how credit unions make commercial loans.

The Credit Union National Association and the National Association of Federal Credit Unions support NCAU’s move for the case’s dismissal. 

Read on to learn more about NCUA’s arguments against ICBA’s lawsuit. 

 

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News of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) was unconstitutionally structured was received well by the community banking industry.

Joe Gormley, Independent Community Bankers of America assistant vice president and regulatory counsel, told Dodd Frank Update that the court’s ruling fit with the association’s position.

Read on for details of what ICBA had to say.

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Congressional leaders from both sides of the aisle responded to the news that the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was unconstitutionally structured.

Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) called it a good day for democracy and the Constitution, while Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) said evidence of the bureau’s structure working could be seen in its recent Wells Fargo enforcement action.

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Two of the leading trade associations in the credit union industry announced they would work together to fight a community banking association’s lawsuit against the credit union regulator.

The National Association of Federal Credit Unions and the Credit Union National Association recently announced they would join forces to challenge a lawsuit filed by the Independent Community Bankers of America against the National Credit Union Administration over its recently adopted member business lending rule.

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It took more than six months from the time of oral arguments for the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to hand down its decision in PHH Corp. v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but the court’s ruling turned heads across the industry.

In its 110-page ruling the court deemed the bureau to be unconstitutionally structured, and moved to remedy the situation rather than halt its operations. In addition, the court sided with PHH Corp. on other aspects of its appeal.

Read on for details of the decision, along with reaction from the CFPB and the industry.

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A California court awarded the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau partial summary judgment in its three-year battle against CashCall Inc., a subprime lender accused of using its association with a company located on tribal land as a “shield” against state laws the bureau feels should have applied to the high-interest loans it made to borrowers in several states.

The court also denied CashCall’s motion for summary judgment and held the company’s founder and CEO personally responsible under the Consumer Financial Protection Act.

Read on for the court’s stern analysis of the company’s “tribal lending” model.

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The bureau’s $32.25 million order against First National Bank of Omaha isn’t raising eyebrows for its high price tag or the fact that it coordinated its investigation with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. The big takeaway in the CFPB’s latest crackdown on credit card add-on products is that it went all the way back to transactions from 1997 — 14 years before the CFPB opened its doors, and well beyond the three-year statute of limitations that applies to the CFPB’s pursuit of alleged violations of the Consumer Financial Protection Act. How is the CFPB avoiding the statute of limitations in this case and others? Read on to find out.

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