Legal Archive

By Grant Premo Lawsuits alleging claims under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (commonly referred to as the “TCPA”) have more than tripled since 2011. A recent decision by the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, however, may stem the tide of TCPA claims.  On Jan. ...Read More

by Charles Prueter, Waller On the first Tuesday in March, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in a momentous case: Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, No. 19-7. Readers familiar with this piece of litigation will recall that the question here ...Read More

by Charles W. Prueter, Waller The composition of the Supreme Court is a constant, if not primary, focus of political debates in this country. As a New York Times editorial put it in February 2012, “the makeup of the court for the next generation, ...Read More

by Charles W. Prueter The Supreme Court of the United States is open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. (That includes the gift shop, where you can buy any number of gavel-shaped trinkets, including a gavel-headed pencil with ...Read More

by Charles W. Prueter In 2007, a bankruptcy and securities law professor at Harvard Law School proposed the creation of a new independent federal agency to enforce consumer financial protection statutes and regulations and generally to regulate the financial services sector. The professor’s proposal ...Read More

by Charles W. Prueter, Waller The new Term kicks off at One First Street in Washington, D.C., next Monday morning. Last month, the Update previewed several of the cases on the Supreme Court’s docket, including a collection of three cases presenting the question of ...Read More

by Charles W. Prueter, Waller For Alabama fans, there’s the third Saturday in October (unfortunately for Tennessee fans, the day is better known as One Especially Depressing Saturday in a Long Line of Depressing Saturdays), and for Supreme Court fans, there’s the first Monday ...Read More