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Ballard Spahr LLP

CTA Litigation Updates: Federal Judge in Maine Rules CTA is Justified, While Texas Judge Allows CTA Enforcement; FinCEN Announces...

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Developments concerning the enforceability and enforcement of the CTA came at a rapid clip last week. As things stand, the government may enforce the CTA pending a Texas court appeal in Smith v. U.S. Department of the...more

Husch Blackwell LLP

Nationwide Injunction Halts Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act - UPDATED February 21,2025

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As of the posting of this article, reporting companies nationwide once again need to comply with the Corporate Transparency Act’s (CTA) revised beneficial owner information (BOI) reporting deadlines. FinCEN has set the...more

Flaster Greenberg PC

Corporate Transparency Act Updates - February 2025

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On February 18, a federal court lifted the remaining injunction blocking enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”), previously discussed. In response, FinCEN has stated that the reporting deadline for existing...more

Brooks Pierce

Corporate Transparency Act: March 21, 2025 Reporting Deadline

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Effective February 18, 2025, and until further notice, beneficial ownership information report filings under the Corporate Transparency Act are once again legally required. The deadline for most reporting companies to file...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Corporate Transparency Act Filing Requirements Reinstated: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Grants Federal...

On Feb. 17, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas (in Smith, et al. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury, et al.) granted the federal government’s motion to stay a nationwide preliminary injunction...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

CTA Reinstated; Deadline Extended

The Corporate Transparency Act’s reporting obligations are once again in force. For virtually all reporting companies, the new deadline to file an initial, updated and/or corrected beneficial ownership information (BOI)...more

Cozen O'Connor

Latest CTA Injunction Stayed

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On February 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas stayed the nationwide injunction it previously issued in Smith, et al. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury, et al., 6:24-cv-00336 (Smith case)....more

McGuireWoods LLP

Texas Court Vacates Nationwide Injunction Staying the CTA, Deadline to Report Beneficial Ownership Information is March 21, 2025

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In our last update, we reported that despite the Supreme Court staying the nationwide injunction against FinCEN’s enforcement of the CTA in one Texas case, a nationwide stay of the Reporting Rule granted by a federal judge in...more

BakerHostetler

CTA Back in Effect; New Reporting Deadline of March 21

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On Feb. 17, the Texas federal district court in Smith v. U.S. Department of the Treasury granted the government’s motion for an immediate stay pending appeal of the nationwide order staying the effective date of the final...more

Ruder Ware

It’s Tricky! Tracking the CTA

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The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) remains on hold due to a nationwide injunction granted by a federal District Court in Texas in Smith v. U.S. Department of the Treasury. However, given pending legal battles and...more

Bailey & Glasser, LLP

CTA Reporting Obligations Still on Hold Despite Supreme Court Ruling

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The Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) continues to take reporting companies on a roller coaster ride. Now, there are not just one, but two Eastern District of Texas federal cases challenging the requirement for certain...more

Stoel Rives LLP

Corporate Transparency Act Still Blocked Despite Supreme Court Decision

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Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) remains on hold while litigation proceeds, and reporting companies are therefore not required to file reports at this time. However, reporting companies may continue...more

Kerr Russell

Corporate Transparency Act Enforcement Expected to Resume Following Legal Developments

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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),...more

Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP

DOJ Seeks to Reinstate Corporate Transparency Act

On February 5, 2025, the Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a notice of appeal and motion for stay of the injunction against enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) issued by the Eastern District of Texas in Smith...more

Pierce Atwood LLP

It Lives: Trump Administration Defends Corporate Transparency Act; May Modify its Application

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On February 5, 2025, the Trump administration added a new chapter to the saga that has been implementation of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), filing a notice of appeal and motion for stay against an Eastern District of...more

Flaster Greenberg PC

Corporate Transparency Act Updates

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(2/6/25) Update as of February 5, 2025: The government appealed the nationwide injunction blocking CTA enforcement in Smith, et al. v. U.S. Department of the Treasury, et al., 6:24-cv-00336 (E.D. Tex.). FinCEN updated its...more

McGlinchey Stafford

FinCEN Commits to Extend CTA Reporting for 30 Days If Court Grants Stay of Injunction

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On February 5, 2025, the United States filed a motion in the case of Samantha Smith, et al., v. United States Department of Treasury, et al., to stay the order of the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Texas,...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Corporate Transparency Act Still Blocked Despite Supreme Court Decision

The saga of confusing Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) litigation continues, but the guidance remains the same: companies are not currently obligated to file Beneficial Ownership Information (BOI) reports with the U.S....more

Bass, Berry & Sims PLC

Supreme Court Enters the Corporate Transparency Act Fray, But Enforcement and Filings Remain on Hold

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On January 23, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted the nationwide injunction entered by the federal district court in the Eastern District of Texas in the case styled Texas Top Cop Shop v. McHenry, which had barred enforcement of...more

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CTA Enforcement Remains Paused Following Supreme Court Ruling Granting Stay of Injunction

On January 23, 2025, the Supreme Court of the United States granted the federal government’s motion to stay the nationwide injunction preventing enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) entered by the United...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Supreme Court Grants Stay of Preliminary Injunction Against Corporate Transparency Act – Second Injunction Still In Effect

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On January 23, 2025, the Supreme Court granted the government’s motion to stay a nationwide injunction that was issued by a Texas federal judge in the case Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc. v. McHenry. As we discussed previously,...more

Dickinson Wright

Supreme Court Stays Fifth Circuit CTA Injunction, But Clarity Remains Elusive

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On Jan. 23, 2025, the United States Supreme Court reinstated a stay on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ Dec. 26, 2024, decision, which had upheld a lower court’s nationwide injunction blocking enforcement of the Corporate...more

Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP

Supreme Court Intervenes in CTA Legal Battle, But Implementation Still on Hold Due to Separate Injunction

The Supreme Court has weighed in on the ongoing battle concerning the Corporate Transparency Act (the CTA). As we previously wrote, on December 3, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a...more

Morgan Lewis

CTA Still On Hold: US Supreme Court Lifts One Injunction, But Another Remains

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The US Supreme Court has granted FinCEN’s request for a stay of the recent nationwide injunction of enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). A separate nationwide injunction, however, remains in place, meaning...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

The Ping-Pong Continues – But CTA Is Still on Hold

On January 23, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the federal government’s motion to stay the nationwide injunction blocking the Corporate Transparency Act’s (CTA) enforcement, issued by the federal district court of the...more

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