On December 26, 2024, the Fifth Circuit reinstated a stay of the Corporate Transparency Act’s requirement that businesses must file Beneficial Ownership Information reports. Accordingly, there is at present no obligation to...more
1/3/2025
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Beneficial Owner ,
Compliance ,
Corporate Transparency Act ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Filing Deadlines ,
FinCEN ,
Preliminary Injunctions ,
Reporting Requirements ,
SCOTUS ,
Stays
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has published a Notice of Funding Opportunity for Round 5 of the ReConnect program. Applications can be submitted through the RUS online...more
The FCC has announced the dates that broadband internet service providers are required to display Broadband Consumer Labels. Providers with 100,000 or fewer subscriber lines will have until October 10, 2024 to display the...more
10/20/2023
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Discounts ,
FCC ,
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) ,
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) ,
Performance Standards ,
Pricing ,
Privacy Policy ,
Product Labels ,
State Taxes ,
Transparency
The FCC has released new rules that expand caller ID authentication requirements, impose enhanced robocall mitigation obligations, create new mechanisms to hold providers accountable for non-compliance, and set forth the...more
4/19/2023
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Compliance ,
Enforcement ,
FCC ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Infrastructure ,
Mitigation ,
New Rules ,
Noncompliance ,
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) ,
Penalties ,
Robocalling
A Funding Opportunity Announcement (“FOA”) has been published in the Federal Register announcing that the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) will accept applications for the second funding round in fiscal year 2022 for the...more
8/8/2022
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Broadband ,
Climate Change ,
Construction Project ,
Deadlines ,
Federal Register ,
Funding ,
Funding Opportunities ,
Immigrants ,
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) ,
Loans ,
Rural Areas ,
Rural Development ,
Utilities Sector