CFPB urges district court to move credit card late fee case to D.C.
On July 29, the CFPB submitted a brief to move its credit card late fee case from the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas (located in Fort Worth) to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (D.D.C.). As previously covered by InfoBytes, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit reversed the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas’s decision to move the case in April, holding that the District Court lacked jurisdiction to change venues. In its latest brief, the CFPB took a different approach. Specifically, the Bureau argued that the only plaintiff located in the Texas venue should be dismissed for lack of standing since the Bureau alleged the plaintiffs failed to establish that the organization from Fort Worth’s interests were “germane to the organization’s purpose.” Accordingly, the Bureau argued the better venue for this case would be the D.D.C.