Law and legal issues

Minority farmers who sought to take advantage of a U.S. debt-assistance program claim in a lawsuit that the government failed to provide any of the promised relief and reneged on a deal to resolve their discrimination claims.

Top executives at the bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network withdrew at least $30 million of cryptocurrencies in the month before suspending customer withdrawals from the platform, court documents show.

Sexual assaults, lurid propositions and a sex tape pack the latest filings in a class action against Goldman Sachs. But it's a boss's comment about his assistant's engagement ring two decades ago and a woman who complained an executive checked her out that have set off an especially bitter dispute in the case.

KServicing, a SoftBank-backed small-business loan servicer, filed for bankruptcy after the company, which holds old loans made by the online lender Kabbage, was weighed down by allegations of overly lax lending under the U.S. government's Paycheck Protection Program.

When local prosecutors in Los Angeles investigated fake accounts at the San Francisco bank, they were hampered by a provision of state law that prevented them from issuing subpoenas before filing suit. That problem has been remedied under legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The Biden administration was accused in a lawsuit by six Republican-led states of overstepping its authority with a plan to forgive federal student loans.

Celsius Network Chief Executive Alex Mashinsky, who founded the embattled crypto startup and served as pitchman for the sky-high yields it promised to its thousands of investors, is stepping down as the company works its way through bankruptcy.

A female Commerzbank manager who was described by her manager as having an "unhealthy obsession with work" won her sex discrimination claim for a second time.

Some of the Revlon creditors that were accidentally sent more than $900 million by Citigroup asked a federal appeals court for a rehearing, after it ruled that they had to give the money back.

The saga over cryptocurrency regulation took another twist courtesy of a comment buried in a Securities and Exchange Commission lawsuit that hints at a case for U.S. jurisdiction over the ethereum blockchain.

The class-action lawsuit was brought on behalf of mortgage borrowers who were allegedly placed into forbearance during the early days of the pandemic without their consent.

A federal judge found last year that a credit reporting dispute did not have to be investigated because the consumer's complaint was frivolous. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission argue that the decision undermines a key purpose of the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

An appeals court ruled that the electronic delivery of private information that was not made public did not constitute real harm to the consumer.

Citigroup persuaded a federal appeals court to force a group of Revlon creditors to return more than half a billion dollars it accidentally sent them.

Bank of America is facing off in court with the bond insurer Ambac Financial Group in a $2.7 billion case that's one of its last legal hangovers from the subprime crisis.

Celsius Network, the bankrupt cryptocurrency lender, may have hidden its financial trouble from its investors and "engaged in improper manipulation of the price" of the platform's tokens to boost the company's balance sheet and financials, according to a new court filing.

Executives at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce's London office kept a book full of "sexually suggestive comments" about women for a decade, in the latest employment tribunal case to shine a light on banking's sexist culture. 

Celsius Network, the bankrupt cryptocurrency lender, is seeking to give coins back to a sliver of users who are locked out of their accounts. 

The state Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a lawsuit involving one of the nation's largest debt buyers. At issue is how much detail the industry must disclose about what consumers allegedly owe.

The Department of Justice's department of legal counsel said that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.'s board members can bring matters into consideration and vote, even without approval from the agency's chair.