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FinCEN’s Southwest Border Geographic Targeting Order Faces Challenges in Texas and Southern California

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In March, we wrote about the Department of Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issuing a Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) aimed to combat Mexican-based drug cartels. The GTO signals Treasury’s efforts to...more

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Democratic AGs Fight NIH Grant Funding Disruptions

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A group of 16 Democratic AGs, led by Massachusetts AG Andrea Joy Campbell, filed a lawsuit alleging that the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) delays in the review and approval of grant applications and terminations of...more

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Another Win for the Administration, at Least for Now - SCOTUS Today

The motions docket of the U.S. Supreme Court remains busy. Following the April 4 decision in Department of Education v. California—in which the Court, treating a temporary restraining order (TRO) as if it were a preliminary...more

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Reactions in the Wake of HHS Funding Cuts

In just over two months since President Donald Trump assumed office, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), now under the leadership of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has undergone a profound shift in its...more

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Consumer Finance Monitor Podcast Episode: Prominent Journalist, David Dayen, Describes his Reporting on the Efforts of Trump 2.0...

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Today’s podcast show features a discussion with David Dayen, executive editor of the American Prospect, which is an online magazine about ideas, politics, and power. He's the author of “Chain of Title: How Three Ordinary...more

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U.S. District Court Blocks CFPB Shutdown; Trump Administration Seeks Immediate Stay

On Friday, March 28, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson took the “extraordinary step” of broadly enjoining the newly installed leadership of the CFPB from “eliminat[ing] the agency before the Court has the opportunity to...more

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Trump Administration Terminates Humanitarian Parole for Citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, Venezuela

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Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem announced the termination of humanitarian parole for citizens of Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, also known as the CHNV program, in the Federal Register on...more

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20 States and District of Columbia Sue Over U.S. Department of Education Mass Layoff

On March 13, 2025, twenty states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration to stop its plans to cut the U.S. Department of Education’s workforce by roughly half. The case is in the U.S. District Court for the...more

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State AGs Take the Lead in First Month of Trump Opposition

The first month of the second Trump Administration has been marked by a deluge of executive orders and federal agency directives aimed at implementing the new administration’s policy priorities. State Attorneys General have...more

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Eighth Circuit Broadens Injunction Prohibiting Implementation of SAVE Federal Student Loan Repayment Plan, Calls Into Question...

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On February 18, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit—following up on its August 2024 unsigned order—resolved an expedited appeal concerning a district court injunction preventing the U.S. Department of...more

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What is “Illegal DEI”: Vagueness Partially Sinks President Trump’s Executive Orders on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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On February 21, 2025, a federal judge issued a nationwide preliminary injunction that partially prevents the Trump administration from enforcing its executive orders on diversity, equity and inclusion (“DEI”). At issue were...more

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New Administration Outlook: Court Grants Partial Temporary Restraining Order on Executive Order Halting Foreign Aid

On Thursday, February 13, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a partial temporary restraining order in response to lawsuits challenging Executive Order 14169, which paused all congressionally...more

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Federal OMB Funding Freeze and Litigation Primer

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Amid a surge of presidential executive orders since the change in administrations, the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has published a series of documents that have spawned much confusion and litigation. Via...more

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Uncertainty for Federal Contractors: Circuits Split as Fifth Circuit Upholds Minimum Wage Mandate

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reversed a Texas federal court’s decision that invalidated President Joe Biden’s executive order increasing the hourly minimum wage for employees of federal contractors. The...more

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Democratic AGs Secure Order Blocking Federal Funding Freeze

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A coalition of 23 Democratic AGs, led by California AG Rob Bonta and New York AG Letitia James, has secured a temporary restraining order blocking a directive from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) that would...more

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Federal Freeze Rescinded: Implications for Tribal Governments and ANCs

On January 27th, the Trump administration ordered a freeze on all disbursements of federal funds through a memorandum signed by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The OMB memo stated that the freeze does not apply to...more

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Trump Administration (Sort Of) Abandons Funding Freeze

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The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued memorandum M-25-13, “Temporary Pause of Agency Grant, Loan, and Other Financial Assistance Programs,” (OMB Memo) on Tuesday, January 27, 2025. Two days later on January 29,...more

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Supreme Court Enters the Corporate Transparency Act Fray, But Enforcement and Filings Remain on Hold

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On January 23, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted the nationwide injunction entered by the federal district court in the Eastern District of Texas in the case styled Texas Top Cop Shop v. McHenry, which had barred enforcement of...more

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Democratic AGs Give Chilly Reception to Federal Funding Freeze

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A coalition of 23 Democratic AGs, led by New York AG Letitia James, filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island to block a directive from the Trump administration’s Office of Management and...more

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Corporate Transparency Act Reporting Requirements Still on Hold

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The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), enacted in 2021, mandates that companies disclose their true ownership to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) to combat illicit financial activities. However, its...more

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CTA Compliance Stay Continues Despite Supreme Court Lifting Nationwide Injunction; FinCEN Recognizes Separate District Court Stay...

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On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the government’s motion to lift the nationwide injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) in Texas Top Cop Shop v. McHenry (formerly, Texas Top...more

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Corporate Transparency Act Update: Still Enjoined, Filings Still Voluntary, No Penalties for Not Filing

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Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) news in January and December 2024 has been plentiful. Here is the running recap of significant December and January events...more

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Nationwide Injunction Halts Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act -

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As of the posting of this article, reporting companies nationwide do not need to comply with the Corporate Transparency Act’s (CTA) revised beneficial owner information (BOI) reporting deadlines, though the situation may...more

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Federal Court Blocks FDA’s Graphic Cigarette Warning Rule: The Limits of Regulatory Authority

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On Monday, a federal judge from the Eastern District of Texas, Judge J. Campbell Barker, ruled that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) exceeded its authority under the Tobacco Control Act by requiring cigarette...more

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Title IX Litigation Tracker: 2024 Title IX Regulations Vacated by District Court

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The legal saga surrounding the 2024 Title IX Regulations reached a new peak earlier this month. On January 9, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky granted summary judgment in favor of the...more

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