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HLLI Files Amicus Brief in Support of Townstone Financial

August 23 - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington D.C. — On Monday, August 21, the Hamilton Lincoln Law Institute fought back against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s unlawful attempts to discriminate against certain viewpoints and engineer social policy outside its statutory mandate with an amicus brief filed in the case CFPB v. Townstone Financial, Inc., pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. HLLI’s brief supports Townstone, a mortgage…

HLLI Files Amicus Brief in Support of Townstone Financial
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CFPB v. Townstone Financial

HLLI’s Seventh Circuit amicus brief asserts that CFPB’s application of Regulation B and ECOA violates the First Amendment because it stifles free expression and facilitates viewpoint discrimination. The complaint below represents an effort by CFPB to strong-arm “inclusive” social policy rather than root out invidious discrimination, which was Congress’s intent when it passed ECOA.

<em>CFPB v. Townstone Financial</em>
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