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The Trump Administration has appealed an order by a federal District Court Judge blocking the CFPB from firing 1483 employees effective in June 2025 and cutting off their access to CFPB work systems on April 18, 2025....more
As PilieroMazza has been tracking in our recent alerts, the Trump administration is attempting to block federal funding through a freeze outlined in the now-rescinded OMB Directive M-25-13 (Directive). The Directive and the...more
Accusing the CFPB of planning to use its funding mechanism to abolish the agency, the mayor and the city council of Baltimore (the “City of Baltimore”) and the Economic Action Maryland Fund (the “Economic Fund”), a nonprofit...more
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
SUMMARY: On February 7, 2025, the Office of the Director for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued a Notice (Notice No. NOT-OD-25-068) imposing a cap of 15% on the indirect cost rates that can be charged to the...more
Resistance is building. In his third week in office, President Trump is beginning to meet with resistance to some of his initiatives. Here is the latest. Court blocks voluntary separation program -- at least, until Monday....more
Last Friday, the United States Supreme Court lifted a nationwide injunction originally issued by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (and later upheld by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals) in Texas Top...more
At the end of last year, it seemed like Tennessee’s final hemp-derived cannabinoid (“HDC”) rules would (finally) take effect as scheduled on December 26, 2024. As we discussed in an earlier blog post, since 2023 when the...more
The rollercoaster has more hills and turns. On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed that the Government is entitled to a stay of the universal injunction of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). In light of this...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) has been on a journey this past month with a whirlwind of court rulings: halted by a federal district court, reinstated by the Fifth Circuit’s motions panel, had its reporting deadlines...more
On December 26, 2024, in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. Garland, No. 24-40792, 2024 WL 5224138 (5th Cir. Dec. 26, 2024), a merits panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an order vacating the...more
Late on December 26, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed its own decision from earlier in the week, reinstating the nationwide preliminary injunction preventing the enforcement of the Corporate...more
On December 26, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated the nationwide preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). This decision was made to "preserve the constitutional...more
On December 26, 2024, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit changed course, effectively reinstating the preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)....more
As reported in our recent Update, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against enforcement of the beneficial ownership information reporting requirements of the...more
On December 26, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an unsigned order in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. Garland, No. 24-40792, reversing its prior December 23 order lifting the preliminary injunction...more
Here’s a brief recap of the CTA drama to date: On December 3, 2024, in the case of Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, et al., the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas found the Corporate...more
In a highly unusual and unexpected order, late on December 26, 2024, a “merits panel” of the Fifth Circuit (made up of different judges than the “motions panel” that stayed the nationwide preliminary injunction on December...more
Following up on our most recent blog post on developments regarding the enforcement date for the Corporate transparency Act (“CTA”), on December 26, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Panel that will ultimately be handling the merits of...more
If you are feeling a bit of whiplash today, you are not alone. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reinstated a preliminary nationwide injunction of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”)....more
The on-again, off-again nationwide injunction barring enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) is back on. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear the case of Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. Merrick Garland,...more
On December 26, 2024, the Fifth Circuit merits panel assigned to Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. Garland, No. 24-40792, reinstated a nationwide preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of the Corporation Transparency Act and...more
Shortly after publication of our December 23, 2024 Client Alert regarding the Fifth Circuit’s reinstatement of the CTA, FinCEN issued guidance administratively extending the deadlines for certain BOI Report filings. Most...more
On Monday, December 23, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an order reviving the January 1, 2025, deadline for reporting companies to file beneficial ownership information reports with the Financial Crimes...more
As previously reported, on December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction on the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) and its...more