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“In light of a recent federal court order, reporting companies are not currently required to file beneficial ownership information with FinCEN and are not subject to liability if they fail to do so while the order remains in...more
Not content to have an expedited hearing in March on the merits of the case at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals regarding the constitutionality of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), the Government filed an application...more
December 2024 gave businesses and practitioners whiplash trying to follow the bouncing ball about whether the Corporate Transparency Act was enforceable or unconstitutional. This article summarizes the events of the past...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
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. The Fifth Circuit will...more
UPDATE: DECEMBER 28, 2024: In the latest twist of the FinCEN Beneficial Owners Information (BOI) report, the new deadline for FinCEN's BOI Report is on hold again....more
In an Alert earlier last week, we reported that on December 23, 2024, a motion panel of three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) motion for a stay, or...more
The ongoing legal saga in the federal courts surrounding the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) (31 U.S.C. § 5336) has reversed course, yet again. On December 26, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth...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, in an Order entered “at the direction of the Court,” the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated its own stay of District Judge Amos Mazzant’s nationwide injunction of the Corporate Transparency Act...more
Key Takeaway: A Texas federal judge issued a nationwide injunction, but it was stayed by an appeals court. Now that stay has been lifted — so the injunction is in force again. As the year-end filing deadline approached for...more
As we previously discussed, on December 5, 2024, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), representing the Department of the Treasury, submitted a notice of appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, challenging a...more
As the year-end filing deadline approached for the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), we've seen a dizzying series of court rulings that put a freeze on any enforcement of the law with a preliminary injunction, then stayed...more
This Alert is an update to our Alert dated December 24, 2024, available here and supersedes the information set forth in the December 24, 2024 Alert in its entirety. On December 26, in a rapid reversal of direction, a...more
Late in the day on December 26, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reinstated a nationwide injunction staying enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its reporting rules and...more
In a continuing series of dizzying judicial actions, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Dec. 26, 2024, vacated the stay and reinstated the nationwide preliminary injunction enjoining enforcement of the...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
On December 26, 2024, a panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Fifth Circuit) vacated the previous stay of the lower court’s preliminary injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act...more