The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas has stayed the last remaining nationwide injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) in Smith v. U.S. Department of the Treasury…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Finance & Banking
Medical practices across the United States are grappling with new compliance obligations under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). This article addresses the CTA’s applicability to medical practices, its current legal status,…
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/ Business Organizations, Finance & Banking, Health
Effective February 21, 2025, all Michigan employers will be required to provide employees with paid sick time under the Earned Sick Time Act (ESTA).
The ESTA replaces the current rules under the Michigan Paid Medical Leave Act…
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/ Administrative Law, Commercial Law & Contracts, Labor & Employment Law
While the United States Supreme Court recently lifted one nationwide injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) in the case of Texas Top Cop Shop, Incorporated et al. v. McHenry (formerly Garland),…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Finance & Banking
Temporary Protected Status (TPS), enacted in 1990, is available to nationals of designated countries who are already present in the United States, but unable to safely return to their home country…
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/ Administrative Law, Immigration Law, Labor & Employment Law
Question: I have had several colleagues describe their experience with dental plan audits. All of them have had to pay something back. Sometimes they say this is due to a service being deemed a “noncovered service.” Other times…
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/ Health, Insurance, Professional Malpractice
A critical recommendation for foreign nationals in the United States that has gained vital importance in recent days is that they must carry documentation evidencing immigration status at all times…
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/ Administrative Law, Immigration Law
On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the U.S. Department of Justice’s request to stay the nationwide injunction that had previously banned enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its key…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Finance & Banking
In a case of first impression, the Michigan Court of Appeals overturns a circuit court ruling enforcing a forum-selection clause by determining that the clause was not properly incorporated into the parties’ agreement…
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/ Civil Procedure, Commercial Law & Contracts
President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to impose sweeping tariffs on imported goods immediately upon taking office on January 20, 2025.
Those tariffs could have an immediate impact on the U.S. supply chain for goods, as…
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/ Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Commercial Law & Contracts, International Law & Trade
In many cases, the answer is yes, but following a recently-adopted exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), owners of certain retail-level machines are no longer forced to hire OEM-certified technicians to…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts, Intellectual Property, Science, Computers, & Technology
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 (CTA)…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Finance & Banking
On December 23, 2024, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an order in the case of Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, et al. staying the nationwide preliminary injunction issued…
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/ Administrative Law, Business Organizations, Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Finance & Banking
Over the past 30 years, the Michigan legislature has enacted several tort reform laws affecting medical malpractice, wrongful death and other personal injury cases.
The goals of these reform laws, and particularly those…
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/ Civil Remedies, Consumer Protection, Health, Personal Injury, Professional Malpractice
On December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction preventing the federal government from enforcing the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) and its key…
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/ Business Organizations, Constitutional Law, Finance & Banking
