Dodd-FrankA legal challenge has been filed against the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in U.S. District Court in Washington, DC today. Former White House Counsel C. Boyden Gray is representing the Texas community bank filing the suit. Back in 2010, Boyden Gray and attorney John Shu co-wrote a white paper discussing the constitutionality of Dodd-Frank. Boyden Gray also participated on a panel discussion on the same topic at our 2010 National Lawyers Convention. The white paper and the video can both be found below as well as links to additional papers and multimedia related to Dodd-Frank.

PDF The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform & Consumer Protection Act of 2010: Is It Constitutional? by C. Boyden Gray and John Shu - November 16, 2010

 

The Constitutionality of the Dodd-Frank Financial Services Reform Act - Event Audio/Video
--Hon. C. Boyden Gray, Gray & Schmitz LLP, and former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union
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Prof. Ronald M. Levin, Henry Hitchcock Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law
--Hon. Peter J. Wallison, Arthur F. Burns Fellow in Financial Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
--Prof. Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr., Professor of Law, The George Washington University Law School
--Moderator: Hon. Carlos T. Bea, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit