McGuireWoods’ Ponzi Litigation team launched its Ponzi Perspectives blog in early 2021. Throughout the past four years, we’ve tracked and posted case alerts on Ponzi-related complaints filed in federal and state courts...more
McGuireWoods’ Ponzi Litigation team launched its Ponzi Perspectives blog in early 2021. Since that time, we’ve posted detailed case alerts of Ponzi-related complaints filed throughout the country and posted key decisions that...more
In a recent decision, Bruce v. Citigroup, Inc., et al., the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit clarified the limits of bankruptcy court jurisdiction over class actions. Specifically, the court rejected a...more
Since 2021, McGuireWoods’ Ponzi Litigation team has been tracking and posting case alerts on Ponzi-related complaints filed in federal and state courts throughout the country and analyzed key decisions that have the potential...more
McGuireWoods’ Ponzi Litigation team launched its Ponzi Perspectives blog in early 2021. Since that time, we’ve posted detailed case alerts of Ponzi-related complaints filed throughout the country and posted key decisions that...more
With a new decision settling the issue, businesses run the risk of being held liable for the conduct of their customers with the potential for increased Ponzi scheme related litigation following the Pennsylvania Supreme...more
McGuireWoods’ Ponzi Litigation team launched its Ponzi Perspectives blog in early 2021 to track key decisions and new cases in Ponzi civil and criminal litigation. Ponzi Perspectives focuses on on cases and decisions that...more
Ponzi schemes focused on fake investment opportunities are nothing new. Bernie Madoff, Allen Stanford and Tom Petters are now household names. But there has been a particular rise of Ponzi schemes specifically in the film and...more
In a recent decision in Anderjaska v. Bank of America, N.A., et al., the Southern District of New York decided that three national banks were not subject to general jurisdiction in New York for allegedly aiding and abetting a...more
Since the enactment of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) on March 27, 2020, states have rapidly begun to expand COVID-19-related consumer financial protections, including those regarding...more
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced on April 1, 2020, that it will take a “flexible approach” to supervision and enforcement practices under the Fair Credit Reporting Act and Regulation V because of the CARES...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit joined the ranks of courts tackling the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) definition of an “automatic telephone dialing system,” following the D.C. Circuit’s ruling in...more
A few short months after the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia in ACA International v. Fed. Communications Commission, district courts and circuit courts continue to grapple with the pivotal...more
In a recent decision, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a grant of summary judgment in favor of a bank on Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) claims, by holding that a consumer can partially revoke her...more
On June 22, 2017, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) does not permit a consumer to revoke its consent to be called when that consent forms part of a bargained-for...more