The U.S. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax & Trade Bureau (TTB) recently released a new final rule authorizing new standards of fill for wine and distilled spirits containers. The rule, available here, is scheduled to be published today,…
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/ Administrative Law, Antitrust & Trade Regulation
From basic building restrictions to complex planned communities, Louisiana’s legal framework has struggled to keep pace with evolving market demands and homeowner expectations. Courts have wrestled with these evolving market…
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/ Consumer Protection, Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
The Louisiana Supreme Court sent a concerning message to tort reform supporters when it surprisingly reversed its own earlier decision, which lowered an almost $19-million judgment awarded to a commercial truck driver severely…
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/ Business Torts, Civil Procedure, Insurance, Personal Injury
Restaurants, bars, hotels, and other licensees are asking. How do we comply with the new server training?
There is nothing new for you to do. Restaurants, bars, hotels, and other licensees need to make sure their employees…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
Updated with FinCEN Response to Dec. 26 Fifth Circuit Decision -
Chaos is officially the perfect word to describe the situation around the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”)..…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Civil Remedies, Constitutional Law
On December 23, 2024, the Fifth Circuit overturned the Texas District Court’s nationwide injunction regarding the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”). Therefore, Reporting Companies, as defined in the CTA, are now required to…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
One week before Christmas, the Montana Supreme Court delivered a landmark gift to sixteen youth plaintiffs in Head, et al., v. State of Montana, et al., 2024 MT 300 (Mont. 2024), holding that the State of Montana violated their…
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/ Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Environmental Law
Many Nashvillians vaguely recall that they voted in November to increase sales taxes to improve mass transit.
Restaurants, bars and other businesses that pay sales tax have been asking: when does the tax increase take…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Finance & Banking, Taxation
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) rule requiring telemarketers to obtain one-to-one consent for autodialed calls/texts and robocalls is set to go into effect on January 27, 2025…
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/ Administrative Law, Communications & Media Law, Consumer Protection
A Texas federal court judge has thrown a Christmas curveball at FinCEN with less than one month remaining before the CTA deadline of Jan. 1, 2025. On that date more than 30 million companies would be required to report their…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Constitutional Law
While the incoming administration has blanketed the news cycle with newly threatened tariffs against typical targets like China, and against neighboring allies like Canada and Mexico, the current administration has quietly…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Government Contracting, International Law & Trade
Leading ethics attorneys Lucian Pera, Partner with Adams and Reese, and Trish Rich, Partner with Holland & Knight, return for a free, one-hour review of the most important developments of the last year (or so) in legal ethics…
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/ Law Practice Products & Services
Board composition impacts the strategic direction, financial health, and overall performance of every enterprise.
A well-functioning board of directors is the backbone of any successful organization, whether it operates as…
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/ Business Organizations, Government Contracting, Nonprofit Law
The standard of review (“SOR”) is the lens through which an appellate court examines a trial court’s or agency’s decision making and often determines the outcome of an appeal. Consider the tips below to get the most out of the…
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/ Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law
The ABC almost always conducts clean stings for sales to minors. We have been preaching this for more than three decades.
Almost always…
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/ Administrative Law, Consumer Protection, Criminal Law
