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On December 26, 2024, a merits panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (Fifth Circuit) vacated the previously reported December 23, 2024 stay, giving new life to the nationwide preliminary injunction of the...more
On December 26, 2024, in a very short opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which on December 23 had lifted a national stay imposed by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in the case...more
What happened now? On December 26, 2024, and only three days after lifting the nationwide injunction pending appeal, the merits panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reinstated a nationwide injunction...more
On December 26, 2024, in its second order of the week related to Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. et al. v. Garland et al., No. 4:24-CV-478 (E.D. Texas 12/3/24), the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals restored the District Court’s...more
By Lawrence Sheh, Brian Reilly, and Madeline Ursini The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has reinstated a nationwide preliminary injunction on the enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”). The...more
Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) has again been halted. On December 26, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated its own stay order entered three days earlier. The most...more
Beneficial owners of reporting companies, as defined under the Corporate Transparency Act (31 U.S.C. § 5336) (the “CTA”), and anyone closely following recent activity surrounding the CTA and its Reporting Rule, are likely...more
On December 26, 2024, in a surprising move, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a decision reinstating the nationwide injunction against enforcement of reporting requirements for beneficial ownership...more
On December 26, 2024, a panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated an order issued by a different panel just days before that had stayed the nationwide preliminary injunction suspending enforcement of the...more
On December 26, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated its stay of the preliminary injunction of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”), 31 U.S.C. § 5336. This decision reinstates the injunction nationwide, meaning...more
The CTA madness continues. On December 23, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (the "Fifth Circuit"), in the case of Texas Top Cop Shop v. Garland ("Texas Top Cop Shop"), stayed the enforcement of an...more
In a surprising reversal, on December 26, 2024, a panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an Order that vacated (effectively reversing) the same court’s order from December 23, 2024, and reinstated a lower court’s...more
A federal circuit court recently vacated a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) order approving Nasdaq’s diversity rule for boards of directors of public companies....more
As we previously reported, on December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”). Texas Top Cop...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
UPDATE – On Dec. 26, 2025, only days after its prior decision, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals vacated the ruling of its own motions panel, and the nationwide injunction enjoining enforcement of the Corporate Transparency...more
As we previously reported, on December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the U.S. Department of Treasury from enforcing the Corporate...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
Three digital asset organizations have jointly filed a lawsuit challenging the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) new digital asset broker reporting rule. The complaint, filed in the Northern District of Texas on December 27,...more
On December 26th, just three days after the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit effectively reinstated reporting obligations under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), the Fifth Circuit has now vacated its...more