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The short answer is that the outcome of the Supreme Court hearing (whose oral argument is scheduled for May 15 at 10 am) is of immense importance to all stakeholders in the consumer financial services industry. We will...more
President Trump recently signed an Executive Order entitled “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy“ to eliminate the use of disparate impact liability. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)...more
On March 7, the Community Financial Services Association of America (CFSA) and the Consumer Service Alliance of Texas filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to overturn a decision by the...more
Welcome to the “Major US Supreme Court and Appellate Cases” chapter of our annual report, Consumer Financial Services: 2024 Year in Review. The Supreme Court continues to take a close look at major administrative law...more
On June 6 of last year, Prof. Hal Scott of Harvard Law School was our podcast guest. On that occasion he delved into the thought-provoking question of whether the Supreme Court’s decision on May 16 in the landmark case of...more
On January 8, a complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas challenging the CFPB’s newly finalized medical debt rule that restricts credit reporting agencies from including medical debt...more
On August 16, a group of passive securitization trusts formed between 2001 and 2007 (the petitioners or trusts) petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari to hear its case against the CFPB on the...more
In this month's article, we share some of our top "bites" covered during the June 2024 webinar....more
In a blog post published at the end of last week, the CFPB announced that its payday lending rule (Rule) would go into effect on March 30, 2025. Because the Rule’s ability to pay requirements were rescinded, the only...more
Special guest Professor Hal Scott of Harvard Law School joins us today as we delve into the thought-provoking question of whether the Supreme Court’s recent decision in the landmark case of CFSA v. CFPB really hands the CFPB...more
It has been a busy time for us at Explainer Things. Awards season is over, but the fintech regulatory drama is in midseason form. The star of this episode is of course the Supreme Court’s decision on the future of the CFPB....more
On May 16, 2024, the United States Supreme Court issued its highly anticipated decision in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, determining once and for all that the...more
On May 16, 2024, the US Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (“CFPB”) funding structure in a decision that will have significant ramifications on both the CFPB’s rulemaking...more
Until recently, the most popular topic of discussion in the financial services world has been the outcome of the Supreme Court case CFPB v. Community Financial Services Association of America, regarding the constitutionality...more
On May 16, Justice Thomas issued the majority opinion in which the Supreme Court held, by a 7-2 vote, that the CFPB’s funding mechanism comported with the Appropriations Clause of the Constitution which states, in relevant...more
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On May 16, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved the Circuit Split discussed in our prior QuickStudy and ruled in a 7-2 decision that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (“CFPB”) funding structure does not violate the...more
Last Thursday, the Supreme Court upheld the Congressional funding mechanism used to fund the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), overruling a Fifth Circuit decision that found the funding mechanism violated the...more
The US Supreme Court ruled on May 16, 2024 that the funding structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)—which is funded with money from the Federal Reserve rather than the US Congress—does not run afoul of...more
The Supreme Court was busy last week issuing opinions of interest to consumer finance companies, CFPB-regulated entities, and anyone who finds themselves enforcing arbitration rights in court....more
On May 16, 2024, the United States Supreme Court, in a 7-2 opinion authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, upheld the constitutionality of the funding mechanism of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (“CFPB” or “Bureau”)....more
As discussed here, last week the U.S. Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited (CFSA) v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) holding that...more
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited (CFSA) v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) holding that the CFPB’s...more
On May 16, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its decision in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Ltd. In an opinion by Justice Thomas, the Court held, 7-2, that...more