August 09, 2022
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Monday defended its suit accusing a Chicago mortgage lender of discriminating against prospective Black borrowers, telling an Illinois federal judge that a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision limiting agency power isn't the trump card the company claims.
March 21, 2022
A Chicago-area mortgage lender and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have abandoned efforts to settle the bureau's allegations that the lender disparaged majority-Black neighborhoods in infomercial commentary, the parties have told a federal judge in Chicago.
October 26, 2020
A Chicago-area mortgage lender argued Friday that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is going beyond its federal authority with a lawsuit alleging that it redlines and disparages majority-Black neighborhoods through infomercial commentary, which the lender says targets constitutionally protected speech.
July 15, 2020
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Wednesday filed a complaint in Illinois federal court accusing a Chicago-area mortgage lender of redlining and disparaging majority-Black neighborhoods in infomercial commentary, marking the agency's first new fair lending-related enforcement action in more than a year.