By C. Ryan Barber | September 19, 2017
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned billions of dollars to consumers while confronting abuses carried out by large banks, mortgage lenders and law firms—successes that are reflected in the agency's court record and settlements. But the CFPB has also suffered a string of setbacks this summer. Proponents of the agency caution not to read too much into the losses—the CFPB, they say, is willing to litigate. Still, others see an agency that's still pushing the limits of its authority.
By C. Ryan Barber | September 15, 2017
Equifax Inc. has maintained that three executives were unaware of a massive data breach when they made stock trades on Aug. 1—worth more than $1 million—days after the company discovered the attack. Still, published reports about the stock sales raise "fundamental questions," two partners at the law firm Dorsey & Whitney said in an article published Friday at the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation.
By Gabrielle Orum Hernández | September 11, 2017
The credit bureau's leakage and widely reported missteps in its assessment tool could proffer a cautionary tale for other organizations.
By R. Robin McDonald | August 28, 2017
Calling out attorneys with the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for their "blatant disregard" for judicial instructions, U.S. District Judge Richard Story in Atlanta sanctions the agency by dismissing four payment-processing companies from a civil case over debt collection abuses.
By Greg Land | August 24, 2017
Lawyers for Wells Fargo Bank squared off against those representing what they hope remains a class of plaintiffs challenging the bank's overdraft practices at the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday.
By Greg Land | August 22, 2017
Sarasota attorney Robert Frey, who holds emeritus status with the State Bar of Georgia, initially sued A. Binford Minter and a client in U.S. District Court in February over statements Minter made about Frey's intervention in a garnishment action.
By Greg Land | August 15, 2017
At issue is the garnishment statute the General Assembly passed last year after a federal judge declared the old one unconstitutional.
By R. Robin McDonald | August 4, 2017
Wells Fargo & Co. has agreed to settle a 12-year-old whistleblower case accusing the bank of cheating veterans by charging them illegal fees when refinancing their home loans.
By C. Ryan Barber | July 13, 2017
Jerome Paul Compton, the Trump administration's pick for general counsel at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, pulled in nearly $1.2 million between January 2016 and late March of this year from his work in the Birmingham offices of Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, according to a financial disclosure form. Compton's confirmation hearing is set for July 18.
By Greg Land | July 10, 2017
The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit came more than seven years after high-flying Florida lawyer Scott Rothstein pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from a scheme that defrauded hundreds of investors.
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