The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is asking a court to vacate a settlement it reached with Townstone Financial and return a six-figure penalty, with Acting Director Russ Vought alleging the mortgage company was targeted for political speech rather...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced it will not prioritize enforcement actions under its May 2024 rule governing buy now, pay later loans and is considering rescinding the regulation entirely.
The Federal Trade Commission has secured a permanent injunction and a $2 million monetary judgment against Americana Liberty LLC, Three Nations Capital LLC, and three individual officers for allegedly labeling patriotic-themed products as "Made in the USA"...
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has opened a civil investigation into Discord, subpoenaing the chat platform for records on its marketing to minors, age-verification practices, content moderation, and complaints alleging exploitation, with the state...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday announced a May 15, 2025 amendment to its January 2025 consent order with international remittance company Wise, reducing the civil penalty from $2.025 million to approximately $45,000 while leaving in...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau released a report Friday analyzing more than 20 million auto loans originated between 2018 and 2022, concluding that U.S. servicemembers take on larger loans, make smaller down payments, and pay higher interest rates...
The CFPB's general counsel wrote South Dakota's legislature to back a bill that would bar medical creditors and debt collectors from reporting medical debt to consumer reporting agencies.
A new CFPB analysis of more than 20 million auto loans finds that military borrowers consistently face worse financial terms than civilian counterparts across every major cost category.
The bureau rewrote its January 2025 enforcement action against the UK-based money-transfer company, cutting the civil fine by roughly 98 percent and rescinding related guidance.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau reached a settlement with FirstCash, Inc. and nineteen subsidiaries, resolving a lawsuit alleging the national pawnshop operator charged military borrowers interest rates above the legal cap and buried unlawful terms...
The two agencies say the withdrawn joint statement conflicted with ECOA's express text and created unnecessary compliance burdens for lenders evaluating noncitizen borrowers.
A federal judge denied Experian Data Corporation's bid to freeze a putative class action over alleged wiretapping and privacy violations, ruling the company failed to show a stay was necessary.
A split outcome for an RV manufacturer and its chassis supplier clarifies how Florida's Lemon Law works — and sends one defendant back to face a jury.
A federal judge ruled that a pre-injury waiver signed at an Adventure Waterpark cannot shield the park's owners from a negligence suit because state regulations establish a non-waivable standard of care owed to patrons.
A Virginia federal court dismissed FCRA furnisher-liability claims brought by a borrower who never received the car his loan was meant to finance, holding that whether the fraud excused repayment is a legal question beyond the reach of credit-reporting law.
A Wisconsin federal court remanded an FDCPA class action to state court after holding that mere confusion from a misleading debt collection letter does not satisfy Article III's injury-in-fact requirement — then ordered the debt collector to pay the...
A federal judge in the Eastern District of Louisiana denied Amazon's bid to dismiss warranty and federal consumer-protection claims brought by a Louisiana woman whose Baseus magnetic power bank caught fire in her vehicle, while dismissing her negligence...
The Northern District of Ohio granted a motion to substitute class representatives and amend the complaint in a putative class action regarding Cedar Fair’s 2020 season pass refunds, after the court’s own certification order definitionally excluded all...
The District of Maryland granted W.L. Gore & Associates’ motion to transfer a multi-state class action alleging false advertising and consumer protection violations related to the environmental sustainability of GORE-TEX laminate.