February 02, 2026
What happened to a GOP donor's $250,000 Swiss watch? Can cigarette warnings show jarring medical images? Will a circuit split of "far-reaching importance" for arbitration get even wider? That's a taste of the oral argument menu we'll help you digest in this preview of February's top appellate action.
January 16, 2026
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has received the $145 million in new funding it recently requested from the Federal Reserve after a Washington, D.C., federal judge ruled the Trump administration could not let the consumer agency run out of cash.
January 02, 2026
From a U.S. Supreme Court fight over the Federal Reserve to clashes over state regulatory power, in-house enforcement and the fate of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a slate of high-stakes lawsuits could shake up the banking landscape in the coming year.
December 17, 2025
Additional D.C. Circuit judges will get to weigh in on the Trump administration's bid to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau through mass layoffs, after the appeals court granted the agency's employees' union an en banc rehearing on a lower court's injunction stopping the firings.
November 24, 2025
The federal labor union suing over the dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has asked a Washington, D.C., federal judge to rule that the Trump administration may not shut down the agency simply by refusing to replenish its Federal Reserve funding.
October 22, 2025
The Trump administration has urged the full D.C. Circuit to keep in place a split panel's ruling that would allow mass layoffs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, dismissing a union-led bid for full-court review as one that's built on a misguided "straw man" attack.
October 17, 2025
The D.C. Circuit said Friday it will not delay briefing in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau layoffs case as the government shutdown drags on, rejecting a Trump administration request for a deadline extension tied to the lapse in federal funding.
October 15, 2025
White House budget chief Russell Vought said Wednesday that he wants to shutter the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to succeed in the next few months, despite the Trump administration's claims in court that the agency is just being downsized.
October 08, 2025
Amid growing calls for the full D.C. Circuit to revisit a recent panel ruling that would allow mass layoffs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Trump administration is asking for a pause in the case until after the government shutdown is over.
September 29, 2025
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's worker union on Monday urged the full D.C. Circuit to come to the rescue of an injunction that has blocked the Trump administration from enacting sweeping cuts at the agency, warning the regulator's continued existence is at stake.