PHH Corporation, et al v. CFPB

  1. July 11, 2018

    4 Kavanaugh Arguments You Gotta Hear

    President Donald Trump's nomination of D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh to a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court has sent everyone scrambling to read what the jurist has written, but how about what he's said? Here, Law360 presents an interactive audio tour of four key Judge Kavanaugh arguments.

  2. January 31, 2018

    CFPB Structure Is Constitutional, DC Circ. Says In Reversal

    An en banc panel of D.C. Circuit judges on Wednesday overturned a ruling that would have allowed President Donald Trump to fire the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's director at will, preserving the agency's current structure and setting up a potentially messy process before the U.S. Supreme Court.

  3. November 30, 2017

    DC Circ. May Skip CFPB Fight After Cordray's Exit

    The legal battle over who will temporarily lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau comes as the D.C. Circuit is considering whether the bureau's structure is constitutional, and experts say the fight over its leadership could lead the appeals court to punt on the constitutional question.

  4. May 24, 2017

    DC Circ. Digs Deep On CFPB Constitutionality

    The D.C. Circuit plunged headlong into questions swirling around the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's leadership structure in high-stakes litigation brought by a mortgage servicer seeking to overturn a $109 million judgment from the bureau.

  5. May 22, 2017

    DC Circ. Could Punt On CFPB Constitutionality Question

    The D.C. Circuit is set to hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could reshape the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but experts say the court could instead choose to answer a less fraught question about the bureau's interpretation of a fair lending law.

  6. April 12, 2017

    PHH Rejects Trump Bid For Power To Fire CFPB Director

    The mortgage servicing firm challenging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's leadership structure has said that giving the U.S. president the power to fire the bureau's director at will would not make the bureau constitutional, putting the firm at odds with the Trump administration and the CFPB.

  7. March 31, 2017

    CFPB Takes On Trump In Leadership Battle At DC Circ.

    The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Friday took on the Trump administration and a mortgage servicer by defending the constitutionality of its single-director leadership structure before the D.C. Circuit.

  8. March 31, 2017

    Lawmakers, AGs Urge DC Circ. To Keep 'Independent' CFPB

    Current and former members of Congress and attorneys general from more than a dozen states are pressing a full D.C. Circuit to keep the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau insulated from "shifting political winds" and conclude the bureau's director cannot be fired by the president at will.

  9. March 17, 2017

    Trump Asks DC Circ. For Power To Fire CFPB Chief

    The Trump administration said Friday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's leadership structure was unconstitutional and asked the D.C. Circuit to allow the U.S. president to fire the bureau's director at will, but stopped short of asking the court to eliminate the agency.

  10. March 10, 2017

    PHH Says Only Way To Make CFPB Constitutional Is To Kill It

    The mortgage servicer at the center of litigation that could dramatically alter the structure of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said Friday that the only way to remedy the constitutional problems inherent to the agency was to eliminate it.