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Legal Services for Veterinarian Clinics

By Caleb J. Brus | 05.12.2025

In a perfect world, running a veterinary clinic would be limited to caring for animals. The truth is that it is much more complicated – it’s about managing a complex business with high-stakes legal obstacles, decisions, and considerations. Missteps can cost more than just money. Here are a few things that every veterinarian needs to know to help... Read More

FinCEN Issues Interim Final Rule Effecting Drastic Modifications to CTA

By Brennan Block | 03.24.2025

Consistent with the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s March 2, 2025 press release, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an interim final rule on March 21, 2025 effecting the removal of the requirement for U.S. companies and U.S. persons to report beneficial owner information (BOI) to FinCEN under the Corporate Transparency Act... Read More

Breaking: CTA is Back Again; Deadline Extended to March 21, 2025

By Brennan R. Block & Ellen M. Hames | 02.20.2025

As of February 18, 2025, all nationwide preliminary injunctions prohibiting the U.S. government’s enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) have been stayed. According to a notice issued by FinCEN (available here), FinCEN is providing entities who refrained from filing a CTA-mandated beneficial ownership report an extension until March... Read More

Breaking: Nationwide Preliminary Injunction Back in Place for CTA

By Brennan R. Block & Ellen M. Hames | 01.02.2025

In a huge turn of events, on December 26, 2024, a separate panel (the “merits” panel) of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued a decision vacating the original panel (the “motions” panel) of the Fifth Circuit’s stay of the nationwide preliminary injunction halting enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), effectively meaning that... Read More

Breaking: Nationwide CTA Injunction Stayed; CTA Reporting Obligations Reinstated With Some Extensions

By Ellen M. Hames & Brennan R. Block | 12.26.2024

As anticipated in our previous blog, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a decision implicating the nationwide preliminary injunction previously issued by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas in Texas Top Cop Shop v. Garland et al., No. 4:24-cv-478 (E.D. Tex. Dec 3, 2024) that temporarily blocked... Read More

CTA Update: 5th Circuit Poised to Issue Decision; Congress Likely to Weigh-In

By Brennan R. Block & Ellen M. Hames | 12.19.2024

As our previous blog highlighted, numerous small businesses were relieved of their quickly approaching New Years Day deadline to submit beneficial ownership information to the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) under the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) when a federal district court in Texas issued a nationwide... Read More

U.S. District Court Temporarily Enjoins Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA)

By Brennan R. Block & Ellen M. Hames | 12.04.2024

On December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, in the case of Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. et al. vs. Garland (U.S. Attorney General), granted a nationwide preliminary injunction that temporarily enjoins or prohibits the United States federal government from enforcing the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”). For... Read More

Texas Court Ruling on FTC Rule

By Kathryn A. Leidahl | 08.21.2024

On August 20, 2024, Judge Ada E. Brown for the Northern District of Texas issued a nationwide injunction barring the implementation of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) regulation banning noncompete agreements. In April 2023, the FTC issued a final rule banning most new and existing noncompetes nationwide. Judge Brown’s ruling means the FTC ban... Read More

Two Critical Considerations for Employers Ahead of the FTC's Final Rule Effective Date

By Danielle Smid | 08.14.2024

As the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) final rule banning non-competes approaches its effective date of September 4, 2024, employers should begin preparing for its enforcement. Two key actions employers should consider now include: (1) initiating legal action for breaches of existing and enforceable non-competes, and (2) satisfying the final... Read More

Court Blocks FTC Rule Banning Employment Noncompete Agreements on a Limited Basis

By Danielle Smid | 07.10.2024

On May 7, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a Final Rule banning most post-employment non-competes for all workers, except senior executives, employed by for-profit employers. However, recent judicial decisions are stirring up problems for the Final Rule. Important Court Rulings On July 3, 2024, in Ryan LLC v. Federal Trade... Read More