A federal judge has halted the planned layoffs of more than 1,500 employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), pausing what would be one of the most significant workforce reductions in the agency’s history.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued the order ahead of an April 28 hearing in response to a lawsuit brought by the National Treasury Employees Union and other groups. The judge’s decision freezes the layoffs and preserves staff access to computer systems while the court reviews the legality of the move.
In Gonzalez v. Savings Bank Mutual Life Ins. Co. of Mass., No. EP-24-CV-00289-DB, 2025 WL 1145266 (W.D. Tex. Apr. 15, 2025), Yazmin Gonzalez’s (“Plaintiff”) claims of vicarious liability under the TCPA were dismissed due to insufficient factual allegations linking Savings Bank Mutual Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts (“SBLI”) to Elsworth Rawlings or American Benefits, its alleged subagents.
Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach said the payments giant is not seeing consumer spending slow down despite the consumer sentiment surveys indicating that people are worried about the economy.
During a fireside chat at the Semafor World Economy Summit on Wednesday (April 23), he said that “hard data” from Mastercard’s Economics Institute tells a different story.
The Trump Administration has appealed an order by a federal District Court Judge blocking the CFPB from firing 1483 employees effective in June 2025 and cutting off their access to CFPB work systems on April 18, 2025.
Shopify is facing a data privacy class action lawsuit in the U.S.
The proposed class action had been dismissed by a lower court judge and a three-judge 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel but was brought back to life Monday (April 21) in a 10-1 decision by the full 9th Circuit, Reuters reported Monday.
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