California Employment News: Professional and Administrative Pay Exemptions
Podcast: California Employment News - Professional and Administrative Pay Exemptions
Podcast: California Employment News - The Executive Pay Exemption
Podcast: California Employment News - The Basics of Pay Exemptions
What Happens When the California Privacy Rights Act Employment Data Exemption Expires?
Employer Vaccine Mandates and Exemptions
State Law Privacy Video Series | Healthcare Entities and Health Data
State Law Privacy Video Series | Employee Exemptions
Podcast: The Briefing from the IP Law Blog - The Right to Repair and More New Exemptions
The Briefing from the IP Law Blog – DMCA: The Right to Repair and More new Exemptions
#WorkforceWednesday: New AB5 Exemptions, EEOC COVID-19 Updates, Joint-Employer Rule Partially Struck Down - Employment Law This Week®
When Dr. Strangelove Met Jimmy Hoffa
The CCPA for the Land Title Industry: Service Providers and Sale of Data Under the CCPA
[WEBINAR] Exploring the CPRA’s Investigatory Privilege
Ropes & Gray’s PEP Talk: General Solicitation by Private Equity Funds Under 506(c)
III-44- A Little Help From The DOL
[WEBINAR] Update on the California Environmental Quality Act: What’s New for 2018
I-18- DC Update on Joint Employer and OT Issues, and Part 1 of an Expert Interview on Pay Equity Audits
Employment Law This Week: Break Pay, Misclassification of Franchisees, California Computer Professional Exemption, Non-Compete Payment
Employment Law This Week: Defend Trade Secrets Act, Final Overtime Rule, Leave for Disabled Workers, OT Exemption Case
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), alongside the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) (collectively, the agencies), with concurrence from the...more
The CFPB recently issued a final rule increasing the asset exemption threshold under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA)....more
On October 4, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) announced increased dollar thresholds used to determine whether certain consumer credit and lease transactions in 2025 are...more
On November 13, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Federal Reserve Board (Fed) announced increased dollar thresholds used to determine whether certain consumer credit and lease transactions in 2024 are...more
In a decision highly anticipated by the auto finance industry, a federal appeals court recently held that auto loans remain exempt from the Military Lending Act even when they finance related costs or services beyond the...more
In This Issue. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced a new initiative focused on financial issues faced by rural communities and also updated its examination procedures to cover unfair discrimination; the...more
In our Legislative Alert of October 13, 2020, we reported on the California legislation enacted in late September, Assembly Bill 1864, that created the new California Consumer Financial Protection Law (“CCFPL”), and we set...more
From March 27 through June 25, 2020—or until the end of Massachusetts' state of emergency—Attorney General Maura Healey has implemented temporary regulations on the collection of debt from Massachusetts consumers, which...more
The Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development recently adopted amendments to its mortgage lending regulations to exempt bona fide nonprofit organizations from the licensing requirement....more
As a result of a new Alaska law, HB 104, the following are exempted from mortgage loan originator requirements in the state: Employees of federal, state, or local government agencies...more
Minnesota has revised its Residential Mortgage Originator and Servicer Licensing Act to provide an exemption from residential mortgage originator licensure requirements for a "manufactured home dealer" and "manufactured home...more
The CFPB has published its 2019 final lists of "rural" and "rural or underserved" counties on its website. The CFPB has previously posted lists of such counties for calendar years 2011-2018....more
We have been following closely efforts by state regulators, state legislatures and the courts to restrict, or in some cases prohibit, bank model lending programs, so the recent guidance from the Vermont Department of...more
The Federal Banking Agencies (“FBAs”) — collectively the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (“OCC”); the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (“Federal Reserve”); the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation...more
The CFPB is proposing significant revisions to its “Policy to Encourage Trial Disclosure Programs” (TDP Policy), which sets forth the Bureau’s standards and procedures for exempting individual companies, on a case-by-case...more
The CFPB recently released an interpretive and procedural rule to implement and clarify the partial exemption from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) adopted in the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer...more
On May 11, 2018, compliance with the beneficial ownership rule became mandatory. In accordance with the rule, a covered financial institution must verify, at the time a new account is opened, the beneficial owners opening the...more
This article addresses the Court’s reversal of over a decade of confusion regarding autodialers. The TCPA defines an autodialer (automatic telephone dialing system, or ATDS) as “equipment which has the capacity (a) to store...more
Here, we address one significant component of the decision: the D.C. Circuit’s confirmation that consumers may revoke consent to call by any reasonable means but with the qualification that parties may be able to contract...more
Here, we examine the D.C. Circuit’s reversal of not simply the one-call safe harbor for reassigned numbers imposed by the FCC’s 2015 TCPA ruling but also the Commission’s treatment of reassigned numbers as a whole. ...more
In a watershed case, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (D.C. Circuit) unwound key components of the controversial 2015 ruling by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC or Commission)...more
The CFPB, Fed, and OCC have published notices in the Federal Register announcing that they are increasing three exemption thresholds that are subject to annual inflation adjustments. Effective January 1, 2018 through...more
Last month, a bipartisan group of 70 senators were signatories to a letter sent to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Richard Cordray urging the CFPB to “carefully tailor its regulations to match the unique...more
The CFPB has published notices in the Federal Register announcing that it is making no change to three exemption thresholds that are subject to annual inflation adjustments. Effective January 1, 2016 through December 31,...more