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CFPB Spring 2024 Supervisory Highlights looks at consumer reporting companies and furnishers

The CFPB has released the Spring 2024 edition of Supervisory Highlights. The report discusses CFPB examinations in connection with credit reporting and furnishing that were completed from April 1, 2023 through December 31, 2023.

Key findings by CFPB examiners are described below.

Examinations of credit reporting companies (CRCs) found the following deficiencies:

CRCs failed to timely implement blocks of information after receiving the requisite information relating to an alleged identity theft, without otherwise making a reasonable determination with respect to

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Supreme Court

Justices exempt bakery-truck drivers from arbitration requirement

The justices on Friday ruled in favor of a group of truck drivers who transport goods for Wonder Bread in their arbitration dispute. Bissonnette v. LePage Bakeries Park St. is another of the court’s numerous cases interpreting the Federal Arbitration Act’s command that courts enforce mandatory pre-dispute arbitration agreements. Bissonnette involves an exception from the FAA for any “class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce,” and the question in Bissonnette is whether that exception turns on the … Read the rest

Criminal Law

Viewpoint: It’s Easier To Get A Gun Than A Job At Dominos

Two weeks after the funeral for Amerie Jo Garza, 10, the first of the Robb Elementary School students to be interred following the Uvalde mass shooting, I phoned the manager of my local Domino’s to inquire about a delivery job.

Though I’ve never driven professionally and have been out of the job market since turning 70, I felt confident about my chance of being hired. I have a valid driver’s license. I’m insured and have my own car. Since my … Read the rest

Civil Law

Cruise Ship Dancer Employed on Miami-Based Cruise Line Arrested on Child Pornography Charges

A dancer employed on an unidentified cruise ship was recently arrested in Broward County on one charge of possession of child pornography and a second count of receipt and distribution of child pornography.

Twenty-six year old Jamaal Wade appeared in federal court in Fort Lauderdale in case number 0:24-mj-06151-PMH. A special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) verified in a complaint alleging violation of 18 USC 2252A that Wade engaged in prior criminal sexual abuse of a child, … Read the rest

Supreme Court

The morning read for Thursday, April 11

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Thursday morning read:

Prosecutors Ask Supreme Court to Reject Trump’s Immunity Claim in Election Case (Adam Liptak, The New York Times)
Starbucks seeks Supreme Court protection from being ordered to rehire baristas who say they were fired for union-promoting activities (Michael Z. Green, The Conversation)
US historians file brief with supreme court rejecting Trump’s immunity claim (Martin

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Supreme Court

Jan. 6 defendant asks Supreme Court to throw out obstruction charge

The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on April 16 in the case of a former police officer from Pennsylvania who entered the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks. Joseph Fischer, who was charged with (among other things) assaulting a police officer, disorderly conduct in the Capitol, and obstruction of a congressional proceeding, has asked the justices to throw out the charge that he obstructed an official proceeding, arguing that the law that he was charged with violating … Read the rest

Civil Law

The DOL Updates the QPAM Exemption from Prohibited Transaction Restrictions under ERISA (US)

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”) and the Internal Revenue Code Of 1986, as amended (“Code”) contain broad prohibitions on transactions between ERISA-covered employee benefit plans and Individual Retirement Accounts (“Plans”), as well as certain people or entities closely connected to such Plans, known as “parties in interest” or “disqualified persons”. Absent an exemption, the types of transactions that are prohibited include sales and leases or loans between a Plan and a party or parties … Read the rest

Supreme Court

The morning read for Friday, April 5

Each weekday, we select a short list of news articles, commentary, and other noteworthy links related to the Supreme Court. Here’s the Friday morning read:

Chief Justice Extols Legacy of Sandra Day O’Connor (Zach Montague, The New York Times)
‘Rest easy.’ Mashpee tribe praises Supreme Court action preserving 321 acres in trust (Rachael Devaney, Cape Cod Times)
Crypto Firms Take SEC Fight to Texas, With Eye on Supreme Court (Matthew Bultman, Bloomberg Law)
Sonia Sotomayor’s Retirement Is Not the

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