In Case You Missed It: Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor - January in Review
We have posted several new topics to the Consumer Financial Services Law Monitor blog throughout the month of January. To read further, click on the titles below:
Featured Posts / Client Alerts
D.C. Circuit Holds That CFPB Structure is Constitutional
U.S. Supreme Court Denies Cert Petition in Spokeo II
CFPB Announces Plans to Reconsider Divisive Short-Term Lending Rule
Auto Finance
Deadline for Compliance with Revised Used Car Rule Fast Approaching
FTC Issues Report Following Recent Connected Cars Privacy Workshop
Background Screening
New Jersey Expands “Ban the Box” Protections
Troutman Sanders Files Amicus Brief on Behalf of NAPBS in Spokeo II
Virginia Senate Passes Ban-the-Box Bill for Employment
Former Yacht Stewardess Awarded $70.6M in Sexual Assault Verdict
Credit Reporting & Data Brokers
Kirkland’s Can’t Escape Putative FACTA Class Action on Standing Grounds
Debt Buyers & Collectors
Georgia AG Announces $8.8 Million Settlement With Debt Collector
New York AG Moves to Compel Debt Collector to Hand Over Documents
Trade Group Tells Ninth Circuit That Bad-Faith TCPA Plaintiffs Lack Standing
Payment Processing & Credit Cards
CFPB Releases State of the Credit Card Market Report
New York DFS Fines Western Union $60 Million for Alleged Violations of Anti-Money Laundering Laws
Ninth Circuit Narrowly Finds California’s Application of Credit-Card Surcharge Ban Unconstitutional
State Attorneys General, CFPB & FTC
CashCall To Pay Only $10 Million Of $287 Million Sought By CFPB
CFPB Requests Public Comments Regarding Its Use of Civil Investigative Demands
Other Shoe Has Dropped, but More to Monitor After DOJ’s Reversal of Marijuana Policy
Tech Support Operators Agree to Settle Charges by FTC and State of Ohio
Events