Office of the Comptroller of the Currency v. Spitzer

OPINION AND ORDER

STEIN, District Judge.

This is an action by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the “OCC”) seeking declaratory and injunctive relief barring the Attorney General of the State of New York from infringing on the OCC’s exclusive visitorial authority over national banks and their operating subsidiaries. 1 The OCC is the federal agency with primary responsibility for supervising national banks. This litigation was prompted by the Attorney General’s investigation into whether the residential mortgage lending practices of several national banks doing business in New York…