Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe·CONSUMER PROTECTION

4th Circuit Bars Federal Challenge to State Usury Enforcement

The court held that the Younger abstention doctrine required it to refrain from interfering with Pennsylvania's quasi-criminal enforcement proceeding against an out-of-state title lender accused of charging usurious rates.

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