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Feds can use lending law to try to punish Townstone for alleged discriminatory radio show comments
A federal appeals panel said a lower court wrongly tossed the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's action vs Townstone Financial because the judge had imposed a 'crabbed' interpretation of a federal lending discrimination law that limited the agency's ability to protect black prospective loan applicants -
White farmers dismiss discrimination suit following repeal of loan forgiveness program
EAST ST. LOUIS – Farmers Matt Morton and Joshua Morton of Kell, having proved that Congress shouldn’t exclude people from a benefit program on the basis of group identity, dismissed their discrimination suit on Aug. 30. -
SCOTUS decision may doom feds' efforts to sue Townstone Financial over execs' talk radio speech: New filing
Chicago mortgage broker Townstone Financial says federal banking regulators overreached in using anti-discrimination regulations to sue them for comments made on the radio by Townstone executives -
White Illinois farmers challenge bill excluding them from loan assistance
A group of white Illinois farmers is challenging an agricultural relief bill designed to provide loan assistance to “socially disadvantaged” farmers and ranchers, arguing that they are ineligible for assistance following COVID-19 due to their race.