On July 8, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky denied several memoranda for leave to file as amicus curiae in support of an intervenor trade association in a challenge to the CFPB’s Section 1033 rule (see filings here, here and here).
In one of its denials, the court emphasized that amici serve “to aid the Court in resolving doubtful issues of the law rather than presenting a partisan view of the facts.” Here, the court found that even though the proposed amici curiae had attempted to distinguish themselves from the intervenor trade association, their motions nevertheless presented the same or similar arguments as those already made by the trade association.
As previously covered by InfoBytes, an intervenor-defendant, a fintech association, filed a motion for summary judgment urging the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky to uphold the CFPB’s Section 1033 rule. The court denied additional amicus curiae from filing to leave in the case.
[View source.]
