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Lender Fights Back Against CFPB Lawsuit, Arguing Unconstitutional Delegation of Power and Other Constitutional Violations

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On July 30, 2024, Heights Finance Holding Co. f/k/a Southern Management Corporation and a group of its wholly-owned, state-licensed subsidiaries (collectively, “Southern”) filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings (the...more

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Another target of CFPB enforcement action argues that lawsuit filed on August 23, 2023 must be dismissed because the CFPB lacked...

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We have recently blogged about two other actions in which this issue has been raised (one being a declaratory judgment action filed against the CFPB on July 23, 2024 in the E.D. Tex. and the other being an enforcement action...more

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Populus files motion to dismiss CFPB enforcement action based on fact that CFPB has been unlawfully funded by Fed when it had no...

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We have previously blogged about an enforcement action brought on July 12, 2022 by the CFPB against Populus Financial Group, Inc., d/b/a ACE Cash Express, Inc. in Federal District Court for the Northern District of Texas...more

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Rent-to-Own Company Sues CFPB Over Authority to Regulate RTO Transactions

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Part 1 – The CFPB has no authority to investigate or sue Acima because, under Dodd-Frank and the appropriations Clause of the Constitution, it may only be funded out of combined earnings of the Federal Reserve System and...more

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Fifth Circuit Rules CFPB Credit Card Late Fee Rule Case Stays in Texas

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On June 18, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals granted the plaintiffs’ petition for a writ of mandamus, effectively halting the transfer of the lawsuit challenging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB or Bureau)...more

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Fifth Circuit (again) rejects transfer of credit card late fee case to D.C.

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On June 19, 2024, the Fifth Circuit dissolved the district court’s order transferring the case challenging the CFPB’s credit card late fee rule. In granting the writ of mandamus filed by the plaintiff trade associations...more

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CFPB announces March 30, 2025 compliance date for payday lending rule

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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

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A reply to Professor Sovern’s arguments as to why the Fed, notwithstanding its losses, can still lawfully fund the CFPB

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Although neither the CFPB, the Federal Reserve Board, nor the Treasury has responded to Professor Emeritus Hal Scott’s op-ed on May 20 in the Wall Street Journal, my interview with Professor Scott on our Consumer Finance...more

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Transfer Redux: Once again, CFPB Late Fee litigation transferred from Texas to DC, transfer challenged in Fifth Circuit

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In a replay of earlier events, in response to an emergency petition for writ of mandamus and administrative stay of transfer filed by the plaintiffs in the lawsuit challenging the legality of the CFPB’s credit card late fee...more

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Texas District Court Orders Transfer of the Credit Card Late Fee Rule Lawsuit to D.C. … Again: Fifth Circuit Promptly Issues Stay

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On Tuesday, the lawsuit challenging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB or Bureau) credit card late fee rule (Final Rule) was ordered to be transferred from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of...more

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Was it a pyrrhic victory for the CFPB in the Supreme Court in CFSA v. CFPB?

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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 Heels of Supreme Court Decision, CFPB Announces Updated Compliance Dates for its 1071 Rule

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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

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SCOTUS rules CFPB’s funding mechanism is constitutional

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The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 7-2 decision, ruled yesterday that the CFPB’s funding mechanism does not violate the Appropriations Clause of the U.S. Constitution....more

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Bank Runs And Social Media

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In this post from 14 years ago, I speculated as to whether California Financial Code Section 1327 was constitutional.  Two years later, the California Court of Appeal declared the statute unconstitutional.   Summit Bank v....more

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CFPB Files Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment in Texas Small Business Lending Rule Lawsuit

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The CFPB (or “Bureau”) filed a cross-motion for summary judgment in the lawsuit regarding the small business lending data collection and reporting rule, also known as the 1071 rule based on the Dodd-Frank section that...more

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Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Use of Unfairness to Regulate Discriminatory...

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Our special guest is Jeff Sovern, Professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. In March 2022, the CFPB announced that it had revised its exam manual to instruct its examiners to apply the...more

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Plaintiffs and intervenors file summary judgment motion in Texas lawsuit challenging CFPB small business data collection rule

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The plaintiffs and intervenors in the lawsuit filed in a Texas federal district court challenging the CFPB’s final small business lending rule implementing Section 1071 of Dodd-Frank (Rule) have filed a consolidated motion...more

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Will Mariner Finance Decision Lead State Regulators to Bring CFPA Claims?

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A lengthy decision recently issued by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania by Shapiro v. Mariner Fin., LLC, No. CV 22-3253, 2024 WL 169654 (E.D. Pa. Jan. 12, 2024) (Hodge, J.), may...more

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2023 Year in Review: Market Overview - Lessons from 2023, Emerging Issues for 2024

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Welcome to the Market Overview chapter of our annual report Consumer Financial Services 2023 Year in Review. For the consumer finance industry, 2023 was all about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau)....more

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Trade group for providers of commercial sales-based financing files lawsuit challenging CFPB final small business lending rule

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Revenue Based Finance Coalition (RBFC), a trade group whose members include non-banks that provide sales-based financing to businesses, filed a lawsuit last week against the CFPB in a Florida federal district court...more

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President Biden Vetoes Congressional Override of CFPB Section 1071 Small Business Lending Rule

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As previously reported, the U.S. House of Representatives, by a vote of 221-202, voted under the Congressional Review Act to override the CFPB’s final Section 1071 small business lending rule (1071 Rule), and the U.S. Senate,...more

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Fifth Circuit stays further proceedings in CFPB appeal of summary judgment in lawsuit challenging UDAAP exam manual changes...

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Earlier this month, the CFPB filed a notice with the Texas federal district court that it is appealing to the Fifth Circuit the district court’s order granting summary judgment to a group of trade associations in their...more

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Texas federal district court issues preliminary injunction enjoining CFPB from implementing and enforcing small business lending...

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The Texas federal district court hearing the lawsuit challenging the validity of the CFPB’s final rule implementing Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Act (Rule) has issued an order that preliminarily enjoins the CFPB from...more

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Kentucky Federal District Court Issues Order Enjoining the CFPB From Enforcing the Small Business Data Collection Rule as to All...

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On September 14th, the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky granted the plaintiff’s motion to preliminarily enjoin the CFPB from implementing the Small Business Lending Rule (Rule) promulgated under...more

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Kentucky Federal District Court Issues Order Enjoining the CFPB From Enforcing the Small Business Data Collection Rule as to All...

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On September 14th, the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky granted the plaintiff’s motion to preliminarily enjoin the CFPB from implementing the Small Business Lending Rule (“Rule”) promulgated under...more

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