The Federal Trade Commission issued its biennial report to Congress on the National Do Not Call (DNC) Registry that shows consumers placed more than 258 million telephone numbers on the Registry as of the end of fiscal year 2025, an increase of more than 4.8 million from the previous fiscal year.
The Federal Trade Commission has announced a new date for its previously postponed workshop examining employer noncompete agreements. The event will take place on Jan. 27, 2026, from 1 to 5 p.m. CT. It had been scheduled for October 2025 but was delayed as a result of the government shutdown.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today released a list of Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) performance evaluations that became public during the period of December 1, 2025, through December 31, 2025.
In her December 30, 2025 opinion in National Treasury Employees Union v. Vought (which we blogged about here), Judge Amy Berman Jackson concluded that the CFPB may continue to draw funding from the Federal Reserve System even when the Federal Reserve, on a combined basis, is losing money. According to the court, the statutory phrase “combined earnings of the Federal Reserve System” in 12 U.S.C. § 5497(a)(1) means all revenue earned by the Federal Reserve, not profits, and therefore permits CFPB funding even during periods when the Federal Reserve’s expenses exceed its income.
New York has enacted new consumer protections related to coerced debt following Gov. Kathy Hochul’s signing of Senate Bill S1353B on Dec. 19, 2025. The law establishes restrictions on the enforcement of certain consumer debts and outlines new legal remedies for affected individuals.