In this episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast, host Chris Willis is joined by his colleague Lou Manetti from the firm’s Chicago office to unpack a significant new Illinois Supreme Court decision on standing in consumer cases based on federal statutes. Chris and Lou walk through the court’s FCRA “receipt truncation” ruling, explaining how Illinois — long thought to have more generous standing rules than federal court — has now imported a “concrete injury” requirement for common-law standing where the statute does not expressly confer a right to sue.
We recently blogged about President Trump’s Truth Social post in which he announced his intent to impose a 10% per annum interest rate cap on credit cards for one year beginning on January 20, 2026, the one-year anniversary of his second term of office. On January 21, during his speech delivered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he announced his support for legislation to accomplish that result.
On January 13, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed the dismissal of a putative class action lawsuit challenging unsolicited text messages containing video files under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA). The plaintiff alleged that, during the final weeks of a presidential election campaign, he received an automated text message from a political committee that included a video with a prerecorded voice, which was automatically downloaded to his phone.
On January 12, the CFPB received a petition from a nonprofit law firm urging the Bureau to rescind Regulation C, 12 C.F.R. § 1003, and Appendix B to Part 1003. The petition argued that Regulation C, which requires mortgage lenders to collect and report data on applicants’ ethnicity, race, and sex, exposes applicants to potential discrimination by both government and private actors in purported violation of federal civil rights law and the Constitution. The petition stated that rescinding this rule is crucial to maintaining fair, merit-based lending.
On December 23, the Treasury issued an NPRM in the Federal Register titled “Debt Collection Authorities Under the Debt Collection Improvement Act of 1996” proposing to revise regulations governing the Treasury Offset Program (TOP). TOP is a centralized system administered by the Bureau of the Fiscal Service that collects delinquent debts owed to the U.S., states, or tribal agencies under Section 455(f) of the Social Security Act by withholding eligible federal and state payments to satisfy those debts. The Treasury stated that the proposal aims to restore statutory flexibility, implement new authorities, eliminate repetitive language, and reorganize rules for clarity and comprehension.
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