The CFPB and privilege: the fight isn’t over *

USA - January 11 2013
We blogged recently about H.R. 4014, which President Obama signed into law near the end of 2012. The law identifies the CFPB as a regulator to whom a…

Co-authors: Steven D. Burt .

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Federal court finds county recorder's office has standing to pursue claims against MERS *

USA - November 2 2012
Since early 2011, nearly a dozen class actions have been brought against Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc.

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Pennsylvania passes law to resolve foreclosure jurisdiction problems caused by Superior Court decision *

USA - July 11 2012
On June 21, 2012, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett signed the Homeowner Assistance Settlement Act, which remedies a host of problems created by the Pennsylvania Superior Court's January 2012 decision in Beneficial Consumer Discount Co. v. Vukmam.

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Office of Enforcement’s Early Warning Notice *

USA - November 10 2011
The CFPB’s announcement that it will institute an “Early Warning Notice” process has generally been welcomed in the financial community as an opportunity for pre-litigation communications with the Office of Enforcement. 

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Rhetoric for change *

USA - November 9 2011
The web has been abuzz about the letter that Majority Whip Richard Durbin (D. Il) and Jack Reed (D. RI) of the Banking Committee rather publicly sent to Raj Date last Thursday.

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