A federal appeals court has overturned a $7.25 billion antitrust settlement because some retailers got a bad deal in a suit challenging swipe fees charged by Visa and MasterCard.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether the city of Miami can sue banks over alleged predatory lending that targeted blacks and Hispanics.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether consumers and operators of independent ATMs can sue over an alleged antitrust conspiracy to keep ATM fees high.
While there can be legitimate reasons for moving funds abroad to shell corporations, wealthy clients of the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca wanted to know, as one put it in…
Short-term “payday loans” can potentially be a real benefit to individuals like John Charette. The 47-year-old Maine man, like many Americans, has bad credit and lacks savings.
Only 47 people have been charged in 156 criminal and civil cases filed by the government since 2009 against the nation’s 10 largest banks, according to a newspaper analysis.
A federal appeals court has overturned a $1.27 billion civil penalty against Bank of America for risky loans sold to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac by its Countrywide unit.
A New York lawyer who was defrauded of $287,450 in a cashier’s check scam by a purported client has lost an initial effort to recover from the bank that deposited…
An individual reportedly behind a massive leak of confidential documents from a Panama-based law firm says he was driven by the issue of “income inequality” to made the material public.
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