1266 ABA Journal Banking Law articles.
A company that provides advances to people expecting settlement money misrepresented the terms of its deals to Sept. 11 responders and professional football players with Alzheimer’s disease, a lawsuit alleges.
…Feb 7, 2017 1:41 PM CST
President Donald Trump on Friday signed two executive orders as part of his campaign to loosen financial regulations affecting banks and investment advisers.
One executive order aimed at the Dodd-Frank…
Feb 3, 2017 1:59 PM CST
Credit reporting companies Equifax and TransUnion have agreed to pay more than $23 million to resolve claims that they misled consumers and lured them into paying monthly fees for credit-related…
Jan 5, 2017 3:39 PM CST
A federal judge in Manhattan has approved a $335 million settlement in an investor lawsuit against Bank of America, but he balked at one aspect of a request for $51.6…
Jan 5, 2017 7:00 AM CST
Donald Trump has tapped Sullivan & Cromwell partner Jay Clayton to head the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Clayton had represented Goldman Sachs in connection with its bailout during the financial…
Jan 4, 2017 10:31 AM CST
Taking a cue from their Republican counterparts, some Democratic state attorneys general are prepared to file lawsuits that challenge Donald Trump’s administration’s actions.
An argument advanced by Republicans—that states must…
Dec 15, 2016 10:40 AM CST
A person may be guilty of bank fraud under federal law even though he intended to cheat a bank depositor rather than the bank, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in…
Dec 12, 2016 10:19 AM CST
You could say Laura Kelly is in the big-money end of the legal profession. But for Kelly, a partner practicing wealth preservation and estate planning at McCarter & English in…
Dec 1, 2016 4:40 AM CST
Throughout the course of his presidential campaign, there was a veritable laundry list of proverbial bogeymen that Donald Trump promised to vanquish if and when he got into the Oval…
Nov 30, 2016 1:25 PM CST
The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday dropped two antitrust cases involving ATM fees and explained the reason why.
The court said (PDF) it dismissed the consolidated cases as improvidently…
Nov 18, 2016 10:23 AM CST
A federal appeals court has overturned an arbitration decision because the person who headed the arbitration panel had falsely claimed to be a California lawyer.
The San Francisco-based 9th U.S.…
Nov 8, 2016 7:00 AM CST
The mortgage-lending practices of the nation’s largest banks and their effects on inner-city neighborhoods will be the backdrop in a U.S. Supreme Court case to be argued today.
Nov 1, 2016 2:40 AM CDT
The National Credit Union Administration paid two law firms more than $1 billion in fees and expenses to help recover more than $4 billion from banks in cases related to…
Oct 21, 2016 9:27 AM CDT
A bankrupt New Jersey foreclosure law firm has filed a lawsuit blaming part of its financial predicament on Wells Fargo’s delay in correcting “robosigning” problems.
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Justice Stephen G. Breyer offered a Kim Kardashian hypothetical on Monday as the U.S. Supreme Court considered the intent requirement under the federal bank fraud law.
At issue in the…
Oct 5, 2016 11:35 AM CDT
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