Judge denies injunction for CFPB's English

Judge Timothy J. Kelly, of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia yesterday denied CFPB Deputy Director Leandra English's motion for a preliminary injunction that would restrain the president from appointing Mick Mulvaney as acting director of the CFPB, stating that English is unlikely to succeed in her case brought to enjoin the president from such an appointment. The underlying case pits a provision of the Dodd-Frank Act that provides that the Deputy Director of the agency shall "serve as acting Director in the absence or unavailability of the Director," against the Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998, under which Mulvaney was appointed acting Director by the president.