On December 29, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a report calling for stricter and more extensive regulations to the Military Lending Act.  The report, titled The Extension of High-Cost Credit to Servicemembers and Their Families, comes on the heels of a recent action by the CFPB, in which Virginia and North Carolina…

Vermont Attorney General William Sorrell has announced that he has settled claims against Stonebridge Benefit Services, Inc., a company that markets discount membership programs, and J.C. Penney Company, Inc., from which Stonebridge obtained consumer credit card information.

Texas-based Stonebridge sells membership programs that provide discounts for various goods and services.  Customers’ credit cards are subject…

On December 23, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a proposed rule amending Regulation E, 12 C.F.R. §§ 205.1 et seq. – which implements the Electronic Fund Transfer Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 1693 et seq. – and Regulation Z, 12 C.F.R. §§ 226.1 et seq. – which implements the Truth in Lending Act, 15 U.S.C.

On December 8, the Southern District of Indiana released a decision relating to the interplay between the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act and bankruptcy.  In Grandidier v. Quantum3 Group, LLC, the District Court denied a motion to dismiss a plaintiff’s complaint relating to the supposed filing of a time-barred proof of claim in the…

In November, Administrative Law Judge Cameron Elliot of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued the first “recommended decision” in a litigated Consumer Financial Protection Bureau administrative enforcement action.

In In re PHH Corporation, et. al., the CFPB alleged this residential mortgage lender was engaged in a nearly 15-year “mortgage insurance kickback scheme” by…

By all accounts, 2014 was a particularly busy one for the Federal Trade Commission in taking enforcement actions in the automobile sales and financing industry.  The FTC’s last public action of 2014 in the auto finance and sales area involved a suburban Dallas dealer, charged with using deceptive ads to promote the sale and lease…

Oklahoma and Nebraska filed a joint lawsuit asking the U.S. Supreme Court to find Colorado’s recreational marijuana laws unconstitutional.  The two states claim that Amendment 64 “directly conflicts with federal law and undermines express federal priorities in the arena of drug control and enforcement.”

Colorado’s Amendment 64, which was passed as ballot initiative on November…

On December 16, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a new Truth in Lending Act (TILA) booklet of the Comptroller’s Handbook.

Replacing guidance from December 2010, this booklet provides updated guidance and procedures to examiners in connection with recent changes made to Regulation Z (12 CFR 1026), primarily with regard…

Last month the CFPB held another in a series of webinars on the TILA-RESPA Integrated Disclosure Rule. You can view the video of this webinar – and the prior three webinars – here, which focused on questions related to completing the Closing Disclosure Form.

Last month’s session was the fourth in a series of…

On December 15, the CFPB published a proposed rule regarding Amendments to the 2013 Mortgage Rules under the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act (Regulation X) and the Truth in Lending Act (Regulation Z).

As we previously discussed, in October 2014 the CFPB issued a final rule amending the 2013 mortgage rules that took effect…