Home Foreclosures: 17.4.4.5.2.2 Federal authority
Two courts have addressed whether the CFPB and FTC are authorized to apply the MARS rule to attorneys. The first, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. The Mortgage Law Group,384 invalidated some of the requirements for the attorney exemption and thereby limited the CFPB’s authority to enforce the regulation against attorneys.385 The second, Federal Trade Commission v.