Next Wednesday (November 21), at noon, I'll be presenting a free webinar focusing on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's amicus program from both consumer and industry perspectives. On the industry side, I'll be joined by Alan Kaplinsky and Christopher Willis of Ballard Spahr's Consumer Financial Services Group. We'll discuss the factors likely to influence the […]
Category Archives: U.S. Supreme Court
United States v. Bormes is the Supreme Court's first opinion of the term. It deals with the question of where to look to determine whether the government has waived sovereign immunity in FCRA cases. SCOTUS Blog coverage can be found here.
In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision last year in Sorrell v. IMS Health, there’s been a lot of speculation about the extent to which previously accepted commercial speech regulation may now be subject to “heightened” or strict scrutiny under the First Amendment. Sensing an opportunity, lawyers who regularly represent consumer reporting agencies invoked […]