On May 16, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a significant opinion in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Ltd., upholding the funding structure of the Consumer...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
By a 7-2 vote today, the U.S. Supreme Court rebuffed a challenge to the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding structure, lifting a cloud that threatened the agency's enforcement and...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
“Although there may be other constitutional checks on Congress’ authority to create and fund an administrative agency, specifying the source and purpose is all the control the Appropriations Clause requires.” With these...more
On May 16, 2024, the Supreme Court reversed a Fifth Circuit decision which held that the funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) violated the Appropriations Clause. This case was viewed as pivotal to the...more
The Supreme Court of the United States issued three decisions today: CFPB v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, No. 22-448: This case involves a constitutional challenge to the federal Consumer...more
On March 31, plaintiffs CFPB and the New York Attorney General moved the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York to lift its stay order in their litigation against a remittance provider in response to a...more
On Monday, February 27, the United States Supreme Court granted the petition for a writ of certiorari in the case Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Ltd., No. 22-448,...more
On February 27, 2023, the Supreme Court granted the certiorari petition of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to hear a case that could cast doubt on all of the regulations that have been promulgated by the...more