Patrick Bumatay appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearing to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, on Oct. 30, 2019.
A federal appeals court on Friday denied a request to rehear a case over whether the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau needed to redo an investigation into a California law firm, after a U.S. Supreme Court decision found the agency’s leadership was unconstitutionally structured, and called into question pending probes.
On Friday, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit denied a request by one of the judges on the court to rehear en banc arguments in Seila Law v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
