Ninth Circuit Poised to Close Out Seila Law, CFPB Legal Battle

A California debt collection firm that successfully challenged the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau faced tough questions from the Ninth Circuit about its bid to escape an agency investigation.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held oral arguments on the CFPB’s 2017 civil investigative demand against the Seila Law firm. All three judges asked pointed questions to Seila Law’s counsel, Bienert Katzman PC partner Tony Bisconti, about why the CFPB’s probe shouldn’t continue after the Supreme Court’s June ruling in the case cured constitutional defects at the bureau.

The high court’s ...