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Amicus briefs filed by the CFPB are available on this page, including amicus briefs concerning federal consumer financial protection law filed in the U.S. Supreme Court by the Office of the Solicitor General.  

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Category: Federal Circuit Court |
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Belair v. Holiday Inn Club Vacations Inc.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

The Bureau filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit arguing that the Fair Credit Reporting Act requires an entity that furnishes credit information to a consumer reporting agency (CRA) to perform a reasonable investigation when a consumer disputes the accuracy of information furnished to the CRA, even if the dispute could be characterized as a legal, rather than factual, dispute.

Category: Federal District Court |
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Roberson v. Health Career Institute LLC

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

The Bureau filed a Statement of Interest (amicus brief) in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida addressing the Equal Credit Opportunity Act’s prohibition of discriminatory targeting, the act or practice of directing unfair or predatory products or practices at people on a prohibited basis.

Category: Federal District Court |
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Connolly & Mott v. Lanham et al.

U.S District Court for the District of Maryland

The CFPB and DOJ filed a joint Statement of Interest in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland explaining that mortgage lenders violate the Equal Credit Opportunity Act if they rely on an appraisal that they knew, or should have known, was discriminatory when assessing the creditworthiness of an applicant.

Category: Federal Circuit Court |
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Mohamed v. Bank of America, N.A.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

The Bureau filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit arguing that EFTA’s protections for people who experience errors in their accounts apply to prepaid accounts loaded with government benefits, including unemployment assistance related to the pandemic.

Category: Federal Circuit Court |
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Holden v. Holiday Inn Club Vacations Inc. and Mayer v. Holiday Inn Club Vacations Inc.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

The Bureau filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, in two related cases, arguing that the Fair Credit Reporting Act requires an entity that furnishes credit information to a consumer reporting agency (CRA) to perform a reasonable investigation when a consumer disputes the accuracy of information furnished to the CRA, even if the dispute could be characterized as a legal, rather than factual, dispute.

Category: Federal Circuit Court |
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Lyons v. PNC Bank, N.A.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

The Bureau filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit arguing that a Truth in Lending Act protection that prohibits banks from taking money from a borrower’s checking or savings account to cover amounts the consumer owes on certain types of debts covers home-equity lines of credit linked to a credit card.

Category: Federal Circuit Court |
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Louis v. Bluegreen Vacations Unlimited, Inc.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

The Bureau, joined by the Federal Trade Commission, filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit arguing that an American servicemember and his wife who took out a loan to purchase a timeshare have Article III standing to challenge the legality of the loan under the Military Lending Act. The brief argues that the plaintiffs have standing because they were injured when they made a down payment on the loan and their injury is both traceable to the loan and redressable by an order of the court.

Category: Federal Circuit Court |
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Ingram v. Waypoint Resource Group, LLC

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

The Bureau, joined by the Federal Trade Commission, filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit arguing that when a consumer reporting agency forwards a consumer’s dispute to the company that furnished the disputed information, the furnisher is required to conduct an investigation. There is no exception to this requirement for disputes that are frivolous or lack adequate support.

Category: Federal Circuit Court |
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Sessa v. Trans Union, LLC

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

The Bureau, joined by the Federal Trade Commission, filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit arguing that (1) the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) requires credit reporting agencies to follow reasonable procedures to ensure that consumer reports are both legally and factually accurate, (2) a credit reporting agency’s reliance on information provided by a furnisher does not absolve it of potential liability under this provision of the FCRA.

Category: Federal Circuit Court |
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Milgram v. JPMorgan Chase

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

The Bureau filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit arguing that (1) the Fair Credit Reporting Act requires furnishers to conduct reasonable investigations of both legal and factual questions posted in consumer disputes, and (2) each time a furnisher fails to reasonably investigate a dispute results in a new statutory violation, with its own statute of limitations.

Category: Federal Circuit Court |
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McCoy v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

The Bureau filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit arguing that Regulation X requires a mortgage loan servicer to respond to a borrower’s request for information regarding the borrower’s loan, including when the information requested does not relate specifically to servicing.

Category: Federal Circuit Court |
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Henderson v. The Source for Public Data, L.P., et al

4th Circuit Court of Appeals

The Bureau, the Federal Trade Commission, and the North Carolina Department of Justice jointly filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit arguing that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act does not bar a private plaintiff's claims under the Fair Credit Reporting Act.

Category: Federal Circuit Court |
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Gross v. CitiMortgage

9th Circuit Court of Appeals

The Bureau filed an amicus brief arguing that the Fair Credit Reporting Act does not exempt “legal disputes” from its requirement that furnishers of information to consumer reporting agencies must reasonably investigate disputes about information they furnished.

Category: U.S. Supreme Court |
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TransUnion LLC v. Ramirez

United States Supreme Court

The government filed a brief with the Supreme Court in TransUnion v. Ramirez, arguing that a plaintiff class had Article III standing to sue under the Fair Credit Reporting Act where the defendant produced consumer reports that erroneously designated the class members as individuals who are legally barred from transacting business in the United States.

Category: Federal Circuit Court |
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Hopkins v. Collecto, Inc. et al.

3rd Circuit Court of Appeals

The Bureau filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit arguing that a debt collector does not violate the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act when it accurately states in an itemization of a consumer’s debt that $0.00 in interest and collection fees have been applied to the debt.

Category: State Court |
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Linton v. Consumer Protection Division

Maryland Court of Appeals

The Bureau filed a motion in the Maryland Court of Appeals seeking permission to file a brief in Linton v. Consumer Protection Division, arguing that the court should not permit the approval of a class-action settlement agreement that threatens to interfere with the Bureau’s authority under the Consumer Financial Protection Act by purporting to release the Bureau’s claims in a pending Bureau enforcement action, to enjoin class members from receiving any benefits from the Bureau’s action, and to assign to the parties who caused the class members’ injuries all benefits the Bureau may obtain for class members in that action.

Category: Federal Circuit Court |
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Navient Corp.

3rd Circuit Court of Appeals

The Bureau filed a brief in the Third Circuit arguing that section 1042 of the Consumer Financial Protection Act, which permits states to bring actions to enforce the CFPA, does not prohibit a state from bringing an action against a defendant merely because the Bureau has already brought an action against the same defendant.

Category: Federal Circuit Court |
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Preston v. Midland Credit Management

7th Circuit Court of Appeals

In response to the 7th Circuit’s invitation, the Bureau filed an amicus brief arguing that there is no “benign language” exception to the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act’s prohibition on debt collectors “using any language or symbol, other than the debt collector’s address, on any envelope when communicating with a consumer by use of the mails or by telegram, except that a debt collector may use his business name if such name does not indicate that he is in the debt collection business.”