According to its website, the mission of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is “making sure you are treated fairly by banks, lenders and other financial institutions.” When Congress created the CFPB in 2010 as part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, it sought to ensure that the agency would be an […]
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On June 30, Law360 published 3 Takeaways From The Supreme Court’s Session, an article providing insights about the Court’s now-completed 2022 Term. In the section called “No Banner Term for Business” I am quoted as follows: Corporations also frowned upon the Mallory v. Norfolk Southern decision upholding a Pennsylvania law that says corporations can be
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On June 30 the Supreme Court held in Biden v. Nebraska that the Biden Administration lacked authority under the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students (‘HEROES”) Act to cancel $ 430 billion in student loan debt held by 43 million borrowers. The 6 to 3 majority ruling, authored by Chief Justice Roberts, was correct as
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Here’s a question that a law school student might find on a final exam: When can a State exercise “general personal jurisdiction” over a corporate defendant? Until this week, the answer seemed clear: only in a State where a company is incorporated or its principal place of business is located. But a new 5 to
Personal injury “failure-to-warn” suits long have been a well-accepted component of state tort law. Even failure-to-warn claims for intangible injuries such as emotional distress and reputational harm are allowed under certain circumstances. But what about the new frontier of Internet-based “informational injuries” allegedly sustained as a result of visiting business websites that allegedly fail to
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Petitioner Tyler, a 94 year-old woman, owed $15,000 in local property taxes and related penalties in connection with an abandoned condominium. In accordance with state tax-lien statutes, Hennepin County, Minnesota seized the property, sold it for $40,000, and retained the $25,000 surplus. The Eighth Circuit rejected Tyler’s contention that the County’s refusal to return the
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Almost all the 3 ½ hours of colloquy at the February 28, 2023 Supreme Court hearing on the student debt relief cases, Biden v. Nebraska, No. 22-506, and U.S. Department of Education v. Brown, No. 22-535, was devoted to two issues: (1) whether the plaintiff states and/or individuals have standing to challenge the debt cancellation
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The Supreme Court on December 5 announced revisions to its rules—including elimination of the requirement that an amicus curiae obtain either the parties’ consent or the Court’s permission prior to filing its friend-of-the-court brief. “Deleting the consent requirement reflects how commonplace the filing of amicus briefs has become in the Supreme Court. The federal courts of appeals should follow
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“Writing amicus curiae (‘friend of the court’) briefs is my favorite activity as an appellate lawyer,” Capital Appellate Advocacy founder and Atlantic Legal Foundation Executive Vice President & General Counsel Larry Ebner explains at the beginning of his recent article, How To Draft An Amicus Brief That Actually Gets Read. Published by the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel in
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The certiorari petition in Glenhaven Healthcare LLC v. Saldana, No. 22-192, presents an important and frequently recurring question that has enormous implications for public health as well as civil justice: Whether COVID-19-related personal-injury and wrongful-death suits, which implicate the immunity-from-suit-and-liability provision and additional legal protections expressly afforded to healthcare facilities and workers by the Public Readiness and
