A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team:
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Mayor Lurie launches initiative to speed up S.F.’s slow permitting process (SF Chronicle): The Mayor announced a new effort to streamline…
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/ Construction Law, Real Estate - Commercial, Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
On February 27, 2025, FinCEN announced that it would not issue fines or penalties or take any other enforcement action against any companies based on any failure to file or update beneficial ownership information (BOI) reports…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Finance & Banking
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A plaintiff prevailing in a trademark infringement suit is often entitled to an award of the “defendant’s profits.” 15 U.S.C. §1117(a)…
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/ Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Civil Remedies, Intellectual Property
In our last client alert about the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), an injunction against enforcement of the CTA remained in effect. On February 17, 2025, the injunction was stayed, and there are currently no impediments to…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Finance & Banking
On January 21, 2025, Coblentz litigation partner Skye Langs presented for the Bar Association of San Francisco’s Real Property section on the following real estate and land use cases from 2024..…
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/ Education Law, Environmental Law, Real Estate - Commercial, Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team:
San Francisco Why Mission Bay is recovering faster than anywhere else in San Francisco (SF Standard):
The redeveloped neighborhood is booming ahead of…
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/ Real Estate - Commercial, Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
In light of the ongoing wildfires in Los Angeles, we want to take a moment to express our deep concern for all those affected by this devastating disaster. Our thoughts are with everyone impacted by the fires…
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/ Taxation
On December 23, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit stayed the nationwide injunction that temporarily halted enforcement of and compliance with the Corporate Transparency Act…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Constitutional Law, Finance & Banking
On Tuesday, December 3, 2024, a Texas federal judge granted a preliminary injunction halting the continuing implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Constitutional Law, Finance & Banking
As discussed in our last update on the November 2022 Proposition M, Empty Homes Tax Ordinance (the “Empty Homes Tax”), the San Francisco Apartment Association, the Small Property Owners of San Francisco Institute, the San…
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/ Real Estate - Commercial, Real Estate - Residential, Taxation
With support from nearly 70% of voters in the November 2024 election, Proposition M will substantially modify the San Francisco Business and Tax Regulations Code (the “SF Tax Code”), which imposes a number of taxes on entities…
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/ Business Organizations, Elections & Politics, Taxation
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has issued its Final Rule with adjusted filing fees at all stages of trademark application and maintenance filings. The fee increases, which take effect on January 18, 2025,…
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/ Intellectual Property
A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team:
San Francisco -
Can downtown be saved? Mayoral candidates’ big ideas to stop the bleeding (SF Standard): The candidates agree that something must be…
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/ Real Estate - Commercial, Real Estate - Residential, Zoning, Planning & Land Use
In a significant move that has drawn both praise and criticism, California Governor Gavin Newsom recently vetoed Senate Bill 1047, the Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act (SB 1047), a…
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/ Consumer Protection, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
During the 2024 California Legislative Session, which closed on August 31, the State Legislature again passed many bills seeking to ease the state’s housing crisis. This post focuses on key housing-related bills that are, at the…
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/ Zoning, Planning & Land Use, Real Estate - Residential
