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The California Financing Law — Commercial and Consumer Lenders Beware

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Lenders or loan brokers based in California or lending to either commercial or consumer borrowers based in California are subject to the California Financing Law (CFL), which imposes licensing requirements on both lenders or...more

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District court finds communicating digitally enough to hold defendants liable for doing business in state

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On May 29, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina denied a motion to dismiss an action filed against several finance companies accused of violating North Carolina’s consumer protection laws. The...more

Troutman Pepper Locke

Fifth Circuit Rules CFPB Credit Card Late Fee Rule Case Stays in Texas

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On June 18, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the plaintiffs’ petition for a writ of mandamus, effectively halting the transfer of the lawsuit challenging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB or Bureau)...more

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Committee on judicial codes of conduct concludes recusal of Fifth Circuit judge not required in lawsuit challenging final CFPB...

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The Committee on Codes of Conduct of the Judicial Conference of the United States (Committee) has unanimously concluded that Fifth Circuit Judge Willett is not required to recuse in the trade group plaintiffs’ appeal in their...more

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Fifth Circuit extends stay of district court order transferring to D.C. lawsuit challenging CFPB final credit card late fee rule;...

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The U.S. Court of Appeals has extended until 5 p.m. CT today its administrative stay of the district court’s order transferring the case to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. This is the Fifth Circuit’s...more

Carlton Fields

Third Circuit Finds Class Members’ Cash Advance Agreements May Fall Short of a True Assignment

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On April 26, 2019, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals reversed in part and affirmed in part a district court order purporting to void cash advance agreements entered into by and between class members and litigation funding...more

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Florida's Fourth DCA Continues Broad Application of Glass Opinion on Fee Entitlement

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Florida’s Fourth District Court of Appeal continued to broadly apply the holding in Nationstar Mortgage LLC v. Glass, 219 So. 3d 896, 898 (Fla. 4th DCA 2017), review granted, SC17-1387, 2018 WL 2069328 (Fla. Feb. 13, 2018) in...more

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Federal Court Sends Colorado's Case Against Online Lending Platform Back to State Court

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Colorado's ongoing challenge to the bank partnership model of online lending will next play out, at least in part, in state court. Last year, the Administrator of Colorado's Uniform Consumer Credit Code filed suits in...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Ninth Circuit affirms tribal lenders subject to CFPB investigative demands

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The Ninth Circuit recently issued its opinion in CFPB v. Great Plains Lending, LLC, et al., in which three tribal-affiliated, for-profit lending companies (“Tribal Lenders”) challenged the authority of the CFPB to issue civil...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

SEC Administrative Law Judges Ruled Unconstitutional

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A recent decision from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York concludes that the manner in which Administrative Law Judges (“ALJs”) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) are appointed...more

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CFPB Proposes Banning Some Arbitration Clauses, Resurrecting Consumer Contract Class Actions

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On October 7, 2015, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced that it is exploring a rulemaking to eliminate the use of certain arbitration agreements in consumer contracts that block consumers from...more

Brooks Pierce

Business Court Enjoins Enforcement Of High Interest Rate Loans Made By American Indian-Related Business

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Judge Gale's opinion last week in Western Sky in State v. Western Sky Financial, LLC, 2015 NCBC 84 has a little bit of everything in it: choice of law, the U.S. Constitution, claims for usury (excessive interest rates) and...more

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