Law and legal issues

The Florida-based brokerage The Okavage Group is challenging the dismissal of its antitrust suit against UWM, filing an appeal on Oct. 17 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.

According to the litigation, a homeowner's Denver property was valued 25% less because of her race.

Los Angeles dispute resolution platform Ejudicate was banned by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for forcing borrowers into arbitration with an affiliated creditor.

Four companies are fighting CFPB enforcement actions by claiming the agency cannot be funded by the Federal Reserve, which has not been profitable since 2022. The consumer bureau calls the new legal theory "meritless."

The lawsuit's conclusion ends fights by the rivals to depose each other's senior leaders.

The high court's much-anticipated ruling gives federal courts — rather than executive agencies — the power to interpret ambiguous statutes. The decision is expected to facilitate an increase in litigation over banking regulations.

The proposed class action suit claims the fintech lender purposefully pushed customers applying for HELOC loans into higher rates, or misrepresented rates at the beginning.

A Minnesota trade group and its co-plaintiff, Lake Central Bank, signaled that they plan to appeal a district court's dismissal of their lawsuit against the FDIC. The case involves the agency's guidance on nonsufficient funds fees.

The long-troubled lender owes at least $40 million to mortgage industry counterparties and tax collectors, it said.

A federal judge in Texas is locked in a back-and-forth with an appeals court over whether the industry's challenge to a cap on credit card late fees should be moved to Washington, D.C.

The Supreme Court issued an opinion Thursday morning that was unequivocal in its view that Congress is constitutionally empowered to fund agencies with open-ended and indirect funding mechanisms, overruling a 5th Circuit opinion from 2022 that found that executive branches must be subject to direct Congressional appropriations.

The lender lost a battle to toss the lawsuit, but convinced a judge to compel the regulator to produce data on its competitors.

Plaintiffs seeking class certification claim the bank uses an underwriting system that discriminates against minority mortgage applicants.

The company's attorneys had previously managed to successfully decertify the class in the seven-year long case, but the decision was reversed last year.

Many legal experts think the Supreme Court will rule in favor of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in a case challenging its funding. Such a ruling would unleash a flurry of litigation that has been on hold pending the outcome of the constitutional challenge.

Industry stakeholders predict the bombshell allegations around how United Wholesale Mortgage does business will impact customer sentiment and could lead to more regulatory oversight.

A hedge fund-backed newsroom accused the industry giant of overcharging borrowers by hundreds of millions of dollars through "corrupt UWM loyalist" brokers.

A federal judge in Texas sided with bank trade groups, agreeing that bank regulators might have overstepped their authority in reforming parts of the Community Reinvestment Act.

The broker argues it did not break any agreement because it never signed an amendment to UWM's ultimatum in 2022.

A regulator claims Freedom Mortgage's bad data in 2020 violated a consent order the company signed a year earlier for intentional misrepresentations.