On August 25, 2026, the Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Inspector General (HUD OIG), announced a partnership with the Department of Justice (DOJ) through the launch of the National Fraud Detection Center (NFDC). The NFDC is a prosecutor-led, multi-agency effort intended to strengthen coordination among federal law enforcement, offices of inspector general and state partners in detecting and dismantling fraud schemes targeting …
CFPB and DOJ Withdraw 2023 Statement on ECOA and Noncitizen Borrowers
On January 12, 2026, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) formally withdrew their October 2023 joint statement addressing creditors’ consideration of immigration status under the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA) and its implementing Regulation B. The withdrawal is another explicit renunciation of the previous administration’s policies applicable to financial services, though the agencies were clear that withdrawal of the …
DOJ Ends Disparate-Impact Liability Under Title VI, Narrowing Civil Rights Enforcement
On December 9, 2025, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) issued a final rule eliminating “disparate-impact” liability from its Title VI regulations. The final rule rescinds portions of DOJ’s Title VI regulations that allowed disparate-impact claims (i.e., challenges to neutral policies with disproportionate effects on protected groups) and aligns DOJ’s enforcement approach with the administration’s broader campaign to curtail disparate-impact liability across federal agencies. This …
US DOJ Memo Clarifies DEI Compliance for Federal Funding Recipients
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) released a memo directed at all federal agencies, setting forth the department’s view on how federal antidiscrimination laws apply to programs or initiatives, including diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. The memo provides a nonexhaustive list of unlawful DEI practices that could result in revocation of federal grant funding, and it offers best practices for organizations to minimize the …