In Case You Missed It: Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor - December in Review
We have posted several new topics to the Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor blog throughout the month of December. To read further, click on the titles below:
Featured Posts / Client Alerts
Supreme Court to Decide Whether American Pipe Tolling Permits Successive Class Actions
State AGs Vow to Carry CFPB’s Torch
FTC’s New Report Details Law Enforcement Efforts Resulting in More Than $6.4B Returned to Consumers
Check Those Pre-Adverse Action Letters – New California Law Goes into Effect
Auto Finance
Auto Lending—and Delinquencies—Stay on Upward Trend
Background Screening
Ohio Appellate Court Dismisses FCRA Class Claim for Lack of Article III Standing, Citing Spokeo
Military Contractor Hit with FCRA Putative Class Action Over Background Checks
Spokane City Council Approves “Ban the Box” Law
Credit Reporting & Data Brokers
Third Circuit Hears Spokeo-Related Challenge
Debt Buyers & Collectors
Eastern District of New York Grants Motion to Dismiss FDCPA Current Balance Claim
CFPB Withdraws Proposal to Conduct Debt Collection Disclosure Survey
Payment Processing & Credit Cards
Federal Court Dismisses Challenge to OCC Fintech Charter Proposal
Eleventh Circuit Imposes Joint and Several Liability on Payment Processor for Fraud by Client
State Attorneys General, CFPB & FTC
Bad Day for Payday Lender: Jury Convicts Online Lender of $220M
N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein Reorganizes DOJ
Consulting New Leadership on Case Against Tribal Lenders, CFPB Obtains Extension
FTC Issues Biennial Report on National Do Not Call Registry
Events
January 30: ACI Advanced False Claims & Qui Tam Enforcement
February 6: Receivables Management Association 21st Annual Conference