On August 18, Judge Kenneth M. Karas of the Southern District of New York, granted the CFPB’s petition to enforce a civil investigative demand that it issued to the Law Offices of Crystal Moroney prior to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Seila Law decision and that was subsequently ratified by Director Kraninger. Read the full article  …

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A key U.S. Supreme Court ruling wasn’t enough to convince a federal judge to strike down a federal agency’s investigation of a New Jersey lawyer who operates a debt-collection service and has spent three years and $80,000 fighting. New York judge Kenneth Karas on Aug. 18 granted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s petition to enforce…

A Norfolk state representative says he supports a lawsuit against what he calls Gov. Charlie Baker’s “overreach” in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Rep. Shawn Dooley, R-Norfolk, said his comments are “not necessarily attacking the quarantine, the restrictions, or even the fines,” but rather the way the governor — or “King Baker” as the representative…

A split panel of Fifth Circuit judges on Tuesday threw out a suit brought by an accountantwho alleged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s in-house judges are unconstitutionally protected from removal. Two of the three judges on the panel agreed that Michelle Cochran, who the SEC claims violated Public Company Accounting Oversight Board standards, must first…

For years Barry Romeril, the former chief financial officer of Xerox, has yearned to speak out about massive accounting-fraud charges leveled against him and his company by the SEC in 2002, say his lawyers at the New Civil Liberties Alliance. But weeks after the SEC lodged civil fraud charges in Manhattan federal court against him and…