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This Freeman Law Insights blog discusses Chapter 604A of the Texas Business and Commerce Code (“Chapter 604A”) which, as written, prohibits merchants from imposing a surcharge on a buyer who uses a debit card or a credit card...more
Texas joins the patchwork of states enacting legislation restricting foreign investment in real property with the enactment of the 2025 Texas Senate Bill No. 17, highlighting the growing state interest in national security....more
On June 18, 2025, Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk of the Northern District of Texas vacated the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (the Rule). The...more
Explained in more detail below, under the recent vacatur of most of the HIPAA Privacy Rule to Support Reproductive Health Care Privacy (the “Reproductive Health Rule”): • The broad prohibitions on disclosing protected...more
The Texas Legislature was active this Session in proposing and passing bills that seek to restrict foreign ownership of real estate and businesses in Texas. Before this session, Texas did not have state-level restrictions on...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia recently enjoined Texas Attorney General (AG) Ken Paxton from enforcing a pre-litigation subpoena issued to Media Matters for America (Media Matters). The subpoena is...more
The Supreme Court’s decision in NRC v. Texas gives nuclear energy generators and storage facilities, as well as NRC, the latest win in the decades-long struggle over used-fuel storage....more
On May 15, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas vacated portions of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (“EEOC”) 2024 Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace that addressed...more
A federal district court in Texas on May 15, 2025, vacated the gender identity parts of the 2024 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace (the EEOC Guidance). The...more
Recall that just last year, the EEOC updated its Enforcement Guidance on Harassment in the Workplace for the first time in 30 years. We blogged about it here. Earlier this year, President Trump issued Executive Order 14168...more
On April 1, 2025, the Texas Association for Money Service Businesses filed a lawsuit in San Antonio federal court challenging the recent Geographic Targeting Order (GTO) applicable to money services businesses (MSBs) located...more
On February 4, in Texas v. President Trump & Department of Labor, a Fifth Circuit panel reversed a permanent injunction issued by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas. The injunction prohibited the...more
On Jan. 23, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the Dec. 5 nationwide injunction in Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. Garland (E.D. Tex.) that had halted Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) enforcement nationwide. The stay of this...more
On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed a nationwide preliminary injunction of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) previously issued by the U.S. Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (Texas...more
The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) requires all corporations, limited liability companies, limited partnerships, and many other entities created or registered to do business in any U.S. state to file a beneficial ownership...more
There is important news regarding the Beneficial Owners Interest (BOI) report based upon a recent District Court decision in Texas. In the case of Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, et al., Case No. 4:24-cv-478,...more
On December 3, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”). The CTA requires a range of entities,...more
Recent legal developments may doom the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Noncompete Rule (the “Rule” or the “Noncompete Rule”). The recent Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo has significant...more
As expected, a legal battle is playing out over the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s near-total ban on noncompete agreements, and a federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction delaying implementation of the ban while...more
On June 11, 2024, Governor Greg Abbott appointed the three inaugural justices for the new Fifteenth Court of Appeals, which will hear appeals from business courts statewide....more
The landscape of marriage in the United States has transformed significantly, particularly for same-sex couples, following pivotal legal battles that sought to recognize their right to marry. Understanding the nuances of...more
Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Community Financial Services Association of America, Limited (CFSA) v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) holding that the CFPB’s...more
In a landmark decision issued on May 16, the Supreme Court held that the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB) funding mechanism is constitutionally sound, as it does not violate the Appropriations Clause. The...more
Spirit AeroSystems, Inc. (Spirit), a subsidiary of a company that produces fuselages for Boeing’s 737 jets, has filed a lawsuit against Texas in response to the attorney general’s (AG) recently initiated investigation into...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reversed a district court’s 2022 ruling on the constitutionality of Texas Chapter 423 law (i.e., the drone law) which restricts the actions of drones. Nat’l Press Photographers...more