Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, et al., Petitioners v. Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited, et al.

  1. May 22, 2024

    Justices' CFPB Alliance May Save SEC Courts, Not Chevron

    A four-justice concurrence to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision upholding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's unique funding scheme last week carries implications for other cases pending before the court that challenge the so-called administrative state, or the permanent cadre of regulatory agencies and career government enforcers who hold sway over vast swaths of American economic life.

  2. May 16, 2024

    Thomas, Alito: Two Originalists, Two Takes On CFPB Case

    U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito — often birds of a feather — butted heads Thursday over the original meaning and purpose of the U.S. Constitution's appropriations clause in a decision upholding the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's unique funding scheme, highlighting what experts describe as the pair's different approaches to originalism.

  3. May 16, 2024

    Justices Say CFPB Is Constitutionally Funded

    The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is constitutionally funded, rejecting a payday lender-backed challenge that threatened to incapacitate the agency and throw a wrench in the Biden administration's financial regulatory agenda.

  4. January 08, 2024

    Supreme Court Is Suddenly Embroiled In A Term For The Ages

    When 2024 began, the U.S. Supreme Court's docket — spanning abortion, guns, social media, the modern regulatory system and more — already seemed certain to shake up the nation's cultural and economic landscapes. But now there's also a showdown involving Donald Trump and America's constitutional bedrock, auguring a truly tectonic term.

  5. January 01, 2024

    Appellate Outlook: Circuit Splits & Hot Topics To Track In 2024

    The 2024 appellate almanac is looking lively after eye-popping opinions and arguments in 2023's homestretch. As the new year begins, several circuit splits seem more serious, ideological imbalances are in the spotlight, and luminaries of the U.S. Supreme Court bar are locked in a burgeoning battle over alleged corporate complicity in terrorism.

  6. October 27, 2023

    Are Justices Split 3-3-3? New Term Is Already Offering Clues

    The U.S. Supreme Court's dawning term is quickly shedding light on fissures in a six-justice supermajority, providing new evidence of areas where the conservative camp isn't predictably rock-solid despite its rapid reshaping of the nation's legal landscape.

  7. October 05, 2023

    Despite 'Good Day' At High Court, CFPB Not Out Of Woods Yet

    After a round of oral arguments, the U.S. Supreme Court appears less likely to take a hatchet to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's purse strings than expected, but a cloud will hang over the agency's enforcement and rulemaking for some time yet.

  8. October 03, 2023

    Jackson, Alito Spar Over Burden In CFPB Funding Case

    U.S. Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Ketanji Brown Jackson traded verbal jabs during oral arguments Tuesday after Justice Jackson accused her colleague of improperly shifting the burden of proof to the government in a case challenging the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's funding mechanism.

  9. October 03, 2023

    Justices Appear Wary Of Nixing CFPB's Funding Mechanism

    The U.S. Supreme Court appeared hesitant Tuesday to rule that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is unconstitutionally funded, with the justices signaling skepticism amid their tough questioning of payday loan industry groups taking on the agency's budgetary independence.

  10. September 29, 2023

    CFPB To Fight For Its Fiscal Life In High Court Grudge Match

    The future of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau will be on the line when President Joe Biden's solicitor general goes head-to-head with former President Donald Trump's solicitor general at the U.S. Supreme Court in a battle over the agency's budgetary independence.