The consumer watchdog agency, the CFPB, has power to prohibit consumer-finance practices that are “abusive”. This is new in consumer protection laws.
Florida Plaintiffs argue Count V attempts to hold Ocwen liable for knowingly maintaining and relying on REALServicing to its own benefit and...
Unlike small-fry independent lenders, Cottonwood isn’t beholden to anyone. The firm bills itself as “one of the largest privately held” retail lenders...
Secrecy is fine at the discovery stage, before the material enters the judicial record. But those documents, usually a small subset of...
The public thus has a right to access complaints in pending cases, in the weeks before an answer is filed, in the...
“Generally speaking, the FDCPA is a strict liability statute, which does not require the plaintiff to show that the violation was either...
An attorney is a key participant in a mortgage scheme. That’s because being able to point to a lawyer, who is sworn...
Fifth Circuit Judges should know their role. When a Supreme Court case is pending (Selia Law v. CFPB), hold your pens says...
Yet the court did reject our judgment that lucrative market share is a ‘thing of value,’ holding that PHH could not be...
"Both New Residential and Ocwen have evolved tremendously since we first announced our agency subservicing agreement with PHH. We believe this transfer...
Leandra English: Not since the impacts of the 2008 financial crisis were realized has the need for government action on consumer protection...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is ramping up its Anti-Consumer Policy in 2020 under Kraninger and Mulvaney as Instructed by Trumps...
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) today announced four members who will serve on the Taskforce on Federal Consumer Financial Law.
Matt Petersen is a former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) with two decades of high-level legal experience in political and...
After listening to Oral Arguments at the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and Ms Walkers statements, we decided to take...
All American also notes in its reply brief that a group of 11 (Republican) state Attorneys General have filed an amicus brief...
Yesterday, 13th of November, 2019 was the start of President Donald Trumps' impeachment. However, there was other dastardly deeds being done in...
The CFPB alleges that the Mortgage Law Group (TMLG) and Consumer First Legal Group (CFLG) took in over $19.2 million in fees...