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In addition to its implications for CFPB rulemaking, the D.C. Circuit’s decision in PHH Corporation v. CFPB has significant implications for the CFPB’s authority to enforce federal consumer financial protection laws as well as the Consumer Financial Protection Act (CFPA) prohibition of unfair, deceptive, or abusive acts or practices (UDAAP).… Continue Reading

In his remarks at the Mortgage Bankers Association’s annual meeting in Boston on October 25, Director Cordray signaled that mortgage servicing will continue to be a focus of CFPB supervisory and enforcement activity, with the CFPB taking a rigorous approach to compliance.  

While noting that the CFPB has seen “some progress” in compliance with CFPB mortgage servicing rules,” most notably efforts by certain servicers to adequately staff up effective compliance management programs,”  Director Cordray stated that “many troubling issues persist.” … Continue Reading

During the “Developments at the CFPB” panel this morning at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute Consumer Financial Services & Banking Law Update program in Philadelphia, Jeffrey Ehrlich, the CFPB’s Deputy Enforcement Director, would not comment on whether the CFPB will seek further judicial review of the October 11 opinion of a 3-judge panel of the U.S.… Continue Reading

In its decision last week in PHH Corporation v. CFPB, the D.C. Circuit ruled that the CFPB’s single-director-removable-only-for-cause structure is unconstitutional.  While the D.C. Circuit (in footnote 19) noted that it “need not here consider the legal ramifications of our decision for past CFPB rules or for past agency enforcement actions,” we have determined that one legal ramification of the decision is greater regulatory oversight for CFPB rulemaking.… Continue Reading

The D.C. Circuit issued its long-awaited decision in PHH Corporation v. CFPB. In reversing the decision of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Director Cordray to impose an enhanced penalty of $109 million on PHH for its use of a captive (wholly-owned) mortgage reinsurer, the court made several landmark rulings.

First, it held that the CFPB’s single-director-removable-only-for-cause structure is unconstitutional.… Continue Reading

On June 23, PHH filed a letter in the D.C. Circuit supplementing its appeal briefing in PHH Corp v. CFPB, No. 15-1177. For those of you who may have missed our prior posts on this, PHH is appealing a decision made by CFPB Director Richard Cordray while sitting as the CFPB’s administrative appellate judge.… Continue Reading

Seventeen amicus briefs have been filed with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of the position of the Community Financial Services Association of America (CFSA) that the Court should affirm the Fifth Circuit panel decision in CFSA v. CFPB which held the CFPB’s funding mechanism violates the Appropriations Clause of the U.S.… Continue Reading

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit has unanimously ruled that the CFPB’s funding structure does not violate the Appropriations Clause of the U.S. Constitution.  In its decision, the panel expressly declined to follow the Fifth Circuit panel decision in Community Financial Services Association of America Ltd.… Continue Reading

The CFPB has filed a certiorari petition with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking review of the Fifth Circuit panel decision in Community Financial Services Association of America Ltd. v. CFPB that held the CFPB’s funding mechanism violates the Appropriations Clause of the U.S. Constitution.  Given the daunting odds the CFPB would have faced in seeking to have the decision reversed by an en banc Fifth Circuit, it is not surprising that it chose to proceed directly to the Supreme Court. … Continue Reading