Penn. Judge Rejects Tribal Lending Manager’s Immunity Defense
← Previous Article Next Article → A federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled against a tribal lending enterprise (TLE) employee’s motion to dismiss for alleged racketeering and state lending law violations. The employee, Craig Mansfield, was co-manager of...
Navajo Nation Sues Wells Fargo for Fraudulent Practices
← Previous Article Next Article → Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday against Wells Fargo alleging the embattled bank defrauded hundreds of Navajo elders, youth, and other vulnerable populations by opening...
Judge Dismisses NY’s Suit Over OCC FinTech Charters
← Previous Article Next Article → A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit on December 12th by the State of New York as speculative regarding the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency’s (OCC) proposed FinTech charter system. The case dismissal comes just a...
State AGs Band Together Against Mulvaney Appointment at CFPB with Brief to Court
← Previous Article Next Article → A group of 18 state and Washington, D.C. attorneys general filed an amicus brief to the D.C. District Court supporting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) Deputy Director Leandra English in her suit against...
Supreme Court Denies Cert in Tribal Lenders’ CID Case with CFPB
← Previous Article Next Article → Earlier today the Supreme Court announced it would not be hearing a case between two tribal lending entities (TLEs) and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) regarding the agency’s authority to issue civil...
NAFSA Joins Other Native Organizations in Support of Jobs for Tribes Act
← Previous Article Next Article → At the request of Rep. Norma Torres (D- CA), NAFSA joined other prominent Native organizations, including the National Congress of American Indians, Native American Contractors Association, United South and Eastern Tribes,...
Fight Over CFPB Leadership Highlights Faults in Agency’s Structure
← Previous Article Next Article → When Senator Elizabeth Warren (D- MA), then a law professor at Harvard, laid the original groundwork in 2007 for what would later become the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), she famously voiced a concern that...
Dodd-Frank Reform Bill Clears Senate Banking Committee
← Previous Article Next Article → A bipartisan bill aimed at loosening some Dodd-Frank banking regulations passed the Senate Banking Committee unchanged. The bill, proposed by Committee Chairman Mike Crapo (R- ID), would increase the threshold at which banks...
