On May 30, 2019, a federal district court in Texas issued an Order that appears to temporarily grant a reprieve for lenders subject to the CFPB’s 2017 Payday Lending Rule.

The 2018 California wildfires were nothing short of devastating; the Camp Fire was one of the deadliest and most destructive fires in California’s history. Exacerbating the recovery, clean-up, and rebuilding efforts are shortages in construction labor and materials, which the San Francisco Chronicle estimates will result in years of backlogs, as the affected counties only have a fraction of the workers and supplies needed to rebuild thousands of homes, commercial, and institutional buildings, including schools, shopping centers, and infrastructure.