Kelley Barnaby

About Kelley Barnaby

Kelley Barnaby focuses her practice on consumer protection and unfair competition litigation and counseling, including private litigation and government investigations regarding antitrust, data privacy, False Claims Act, and CFPB enforcement matters.

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Slaying the Monster? Reduced Risk of False Claims Act Prosecution for FHA Lenders

October 31, 2019 By Nanci Weissgold, Kelley Barnaby, Anoush Garakani and Sam Bragg

A&B Abstract: In an effort to incent large depository institutions to return to FHA lending, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (“HUD”) and the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”), on October 28, 2019, that delineates HUD’s process for determining whether violations of FHA guidelines should be […]

Supreme Court to Decide CFPB’s Constitutionality

October 22, 2019 By Nanci Weissgold, Kelley Barnaby, Sam Bragg, Anoush Garakani and Ross Speier

A&B ABstract: On October 18, 2019, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Seila Law v. CFPB to decide the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s leadership structure.[1] Significantly, the Court also ordered the parties to brief and argue a second question: “If the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [“CFPB”] is found unconstitutional on the basis […]