Litigation

A federal judge issued an order blocking the Trump administration from firing hundreds of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees, saying agency leadership had 'thumbed their noses' at the court's earlier injunction.

A federal judge will determine if the leadership of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau should be held in contempt after firing 90% of the bureau's staff and dismantling all offices.

The New York megabank, which is stuck in the middle of a legal battle between climate groups and the Trump administration, had been ordered earlier this week to disburse billions of dollars in grants made during the Biden administration.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Townstone Financial, a Chicago mortgage lender that it sued in 2020, jointly asked a federal court to vacate a settlement, saying the case should never have been filed.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said the Environmental Protection Agency could not suspend the previously awarded funds. The case put Citigroup in the crossfire of a legal battle between climate groups and the Trump administration.

A federal judge in Texas found that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had violated the CARD Act by barring banks from charging late fees for credit cards.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit narrowed a lower court's injunction barring the termination of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau employees but maintained restrictions on mass firings.

Two recent executive orders could speed up the administration's push to rollback regulations, but they also change the notice-and-comment rulemaking process.

A federal appeals court panel seemed open to accommodating the Trump administration by putting some conditions on a preliminary injunction that has blocked it from reductions in force at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

The Department of Justice said in a court filing Friday that a February stop-work order from acting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Russell Vought did not entail stopping statutorily mandated work by the bureau, defying earlier testimony.