Dec 28, 2018 | Litigation, News, Tribal Sovereignty
← Previous Article Next Article → The Connecticut Superior Court recently issued a ruling in favor of the plaintiff in Great Plains Lending v. State of Connecticut Department of Banking, et al. The court argued that the state regulator erred in its...
Dec 24, 2018 | Banks & Credit Unions, Litigation, News
← Previous Article Next Article → The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman, has filed a criminal charge against Central States Capital Markets (CSCM), alleging that the broker-dealer violated the Bank Secrecy when it failed to...
Dec 4, 2018 | Litigation, News, Tribal Sovereignty
← Previous Article Next Article → The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a $1.3 billion award against Scott Tucker’s loan companies, rejecting Tucker’s arguments that the loan agreements were not unfair or deceptive. In the published opinion, U.S. Circuit...
Oct 26, 2018 | Litigation, News
← Previous Article Next Article → This week, there have been several important legal developments in the small-dollar financial services industry: the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that cash advances are not always loans; the Consumer Financial Protection...
Sep 28, 2018 | Litigation, News, Tribal Sovereignty
← Previous Article Next Article → The Federal Trade Commission, along with the Department of Justice, has mailed refund checks totaling $505 million to more than one million people who were victims of a “lending scheme operated by AMG Services, Inc. and...