Fair Lending Shake-Ups: CFPB Vacates Townstone Settlement, FHFA Ends GSEs' Special Purpose Credit Programs — The Consumer Finance Podcast
On August 12, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a shareholder suit brought by two stockholders. The two plaintiff stockholders held interests in both Fannie Mae and...more
At its conference this Friday, January 10, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to consider the petition for a writ of certiorari filed by the plaintiffs in Collins v. Mnuchin and the petition filed by the FHFA and Treasury...more
On July 16, 2018, in Collins et al. v. Federal Housing Finance Agency et al. (No. 17-20364), a Fifth Circuit panel ruled that the single-director structure of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) is unconstitutional. The...more