September 29, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court will begin its new term by hearing arguments over the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding structure, the meaning of "and" in a criminal sentencing statute and whether so-called Americans with Disabilities Act testers have standing to sue. Here, Law360 breaks down this week's oral arguments.
September 29, 2023
After methodically amassing U.S. Supreme Court victories against agency enforcers and regulators, a legal crusade against "administrative state" powers is poised to parlay piecemeal wins into a climactic conquest during the high court's new term, which is already teeming with anti-agency cases.
September 29, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court will tackle a variety of questions in the first half of its 2023 term that will have a broad impact on federal regulators' power and the authority of courts to intercede in major aspects of American life.
August 21, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court denied a bid Monday from West Virginia's attorney general and 26 other mostly red states to participate in oral arguments this fall in a case over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding, after the states posited the bureau's funding structure is unconstitutional.
July 12, 2023
Mick Mulvaney, the onetime acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that his former agency is unconstitutionally funded, arguing its budgetary independence has made it into one of the "most abusive agencies" in Washington, D.C.
July 10, 2023
Twenty-seven states asked the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a finding in a case involving payday lending that the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is funded in an unconstitutional manner.
July 03, 2023
Payday lender trade groups that say the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutionally funded fired back Monday at the agency's efforts to defend itself and its rulemaking at the U.S. Supreme Court, urging the justices to disregard "sky-may-fall rhetoric" and rule against the agency.
May 15, 2023
Federal lawmakers, professors and industry and special interest groups have thrown their support behind the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's bid to have the U.S. Supreme Court affirm the constitutionality of its funding structure, arguing in a slew of amici briefs that ruling otherwise would create a catastrophic ripple effect across federal agencies and industries.
May 09, 2023
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm the constitutionality of its budgetary independence, kicking off briefing in a case that could overhaul how the agency is funded and threaten more than a decade of its regulatory actions.
February 27, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it would review a federal appellate decision holding that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was unconstitutionally funded, taking up a case that could determine the fate of the consumer watchdog and its budgetary independence.