The CFPB has released an ambitious Spring Regulatory Agenda that lists 24 regulatory initiatives the bureau has been and/or will be working on during the 12-month period from June 2025 through May 2026 as well as one long term action
On Tuesday, Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson submitted recommendations for deleting or revising anticompetitive regulations across the entire federal government to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget. This report is a response to President Trump’s Executive Order on Reducing Anticompetitive Regulatory Barriers. The Executive Order tasked the FTC with finding unnecessary regulations that exclude new market entrants, protect dominant incumbents, and predetermine economic winners and losers, as a first step to repealing them.
A divided federal appeals court has ruled that President Trump illegally fired Lisa Cook from her position as a member of the Federal Reserve Board.
The decision, by a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, means that Cook may vote on whether to cut interest rates during a two-day meeting that started today.
Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont signed a data privacy bill that strengthens the state’s consumer protection laws at a ceremony in Norwalk on Monday.
The law regulates junk fees and price gouging and includes safeguards to prevent companies from eavesdropping on connected devices.
A federal court in Nevada recently granted a motion to dismiss, reaffirming that an agency relationship between a target defendant and the people actually making the calls is necessary for a plaintiff to sustain a claim for Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) violations.
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