For the second time in four months, the CFPB has rejected a Freedom of Information Act request from the auto dealer industry to make public a number of leaked agency documents that are said to undermine the bureau’s assertions that it is not trying to regulate auto dealers. The CFPB’s latest rejection came in response to a FOIA request filed last month by the National Automobile Dealers Association, asking the CFPB to release internal documents leaked to the news media apparently acknowledging that the agency intended to regulate the auto finance market through enforcement action. Further, the documents are said to have revealed that the bureau eschewed evidence that its methods for estimating disparate impact in the auto finance sector ...