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Discrimination is prejudicial treatment related to (or inappropriate consideration of) an individual's actual or perceived membership in a particular class, group or category, such as an individual's... more +
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Paul Hastings LLP

Disparate Impact Lives: Massachusetts Attacks AI in Lending

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On July 10, the Massachusetts attorney general announced a $2.5 million settlement with a Delaware-based student loan company to resolve allegations that the company’s lending practices, including the use of artificial...more

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Massachusetts Attorney General Settles with Student Loan Lender for Unlawful Practices Related to the Use of AI

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This Thursday, July 10, Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell announced a $2.5 million settlement with a company that offers education financing products based in Delaware. ...more

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CFPB Director Kraninger Signals More Enforcement Coming This Year

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CFPB Director Kathleen L. Kraninger appeared Before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on July 29 to deliver the Bureau’s most recent Semi-Annual Report to Congress. This report was particularly...more

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Congress Passes Repeal of CFPB Guidance on Indirect Auto Lender Liability for Discriminatory Lending

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The U.S. House of Representatives voted last Tuesday to reject a 2013 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) bulletin that provided guidance regarding liability for discrimination in indirect auto lending. The same...more

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Senate Votes to Roll Back Auto Industry Lending Guidance from Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

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On April 18, the Senate narrowly passed a resolution to roll back certain guidance issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in 2013 pertaining to auto lending. As previously written about on a Foley & Lardner LLP...more

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Senate Votes to Strike Down Key CFPB Bulletin on Lending Discrimination in the Indirect Auto Market

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On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate voted almost entirely along party lines to invalidate, under the Congressional Review Act, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) (in)famous 2013 Bulletin on lending discrimination in...more

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Discrimination and Algorithms in Financial Services: Unintended Consequences of AI

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It’s troubling enough when facial recognition software couldn’t recognize Asian faces, the crime prediction algorithm targeted black neighborhoods, the job bank was more likely to show men highly paid executive jobs, and the...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

Auto Finance Company Agrees to Change Dealer Compensation Policy to Settle CFPB and DOJ Fair Lending Claims

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To resolve charges by the Consumer Federal Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) that it engaged in unlawful discrimination in violation of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), American Honda...more

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DOJ And CFPB Team Up To Take On Auto And Mortgage Lenders

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The CFPB and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are joining forces to pursue damages and penalties against consumer lenders for violation of the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) in pricing consumer loans....more

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