• “You can’t prove that favoritism influenced FDIC” in going easy on brass at Chicago bank [Kevin Funnell]
• Securities and Exchange Commission won’t give up bid for more power in stale cases despite 9-0 SCOTUS loss [my new Cato Institute]
• Is JP Morgan paying an enforcement price for Dimon’s outspoken criticism of regulators? [Prof. Bainbridge; WSJ (reporting claims that “it took Mr. Dimon too long to shed a combative stance with regulators… In April the bank’s two top regulators told Mr. Dimon and his board that they had lost trust in management.”)] More on Standard & Poor’s claims that it was targeted for retaliation by federal government [Peter Henning, NYT DealBook, earlier]
• Judge rules against law passed by Chicago on bank-owned vacant buildings [Chicago Real Estate Daily]
• Post-merger derivative claims: “Delaware refuses to feed the sharks” [Bainbridge]
• Payday lending fight pits New York regulator against some Indian tribes [Funnell, Native American Financial Service Association]
• Stay on the line to learn more about the Verizon/Vodafone deal, or just press the star key to sue now [Daniel Fisher, Forbes]

Filed under: banks, Chicago, Delaware, Indian tribes, mortgages, statutes of limitations