The 6-3 decision finds that states had standing to sue, and the debt relief plan did not have merits under federal law. A separate case was dismissed for lack of standing.
To that end, the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions, as published by the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, lays out what will be under consideration from June of this year to June 2024. That’s a long time-frame, to be sure, but it’s a roadmap of what we’ll see from the likes of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).
While Americans had built up savings at an unprecedented rate following the pandemic, households are struggling to put money away this year—a trend that has fueled fears among economists of an incoming recession.
Earlier this month, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit issued a decision restricting employers’ abilities to fight off putative class action claims regarding data breach and cyberattacks on employee personal identifying information (“PII”).
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently issued a split decision upholding a Nevada medical debt collection law after concluding the statute was neither preempted by the FDCPA or the FCRA, nor a violation of the First Amendment.