What is the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), and Who is Required to Report?  Congress enacted the CTA in 2021, requiring most corporations, limited liability companies, limited liability partnerships and other entities to report Beneficial Ownership Information to the federal government. This reporting must be accomplished through the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”), a bureau within...Read More

Time and again, we have underestimated the pandemic’s ability to impact seemingly obscure aspects of our lives. Our work lives have been uprooted, and our personal lives at times, cancelled. To fill the void left by cancelled social functions, most folks have spent even more of their free time streaming their favorite shows and what...Read More

On November 25, 2020, Abercrombie & Fitch received the crushing news that the Indiana Court of Appeals was not buying their argument that “the current uncertainty regarding the impact of COVID-19” entitled them to unilaterally void a lease arrangement with Simon Properties under which the parties had operated for over two months.  The Indiana Court...Read More

Though Indiana property taxes remain due by May 11, 2020, Gov. Holcomb issued Executive Order #20-005 requiring all Indiana counties to waive delinquent payment penalties for property taxes paid on or before July 10, 2020.Read More

A Republican-sponsored bill circulating through the 2018 Indiana General Assembly aims to restrict local governments from regulating the development of natural resources on private property.  “Natural resources,” as defined by HB 1289, includes the extraction of mineral resources and the sale or removal of merchantable timber.  Recent amendments added to the bill last week, however,...Read More

In a decision that could open courts up to future litigation, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled last week that federal district courts have jurisdiction to hear challenges to rules regarding the definition of “waters of the United States.” The Supreme Court’s decision in National Association of Manufacturers v. Department of Defense held that...Read More

This past Tuesday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Army, and Army Corps of Engineers proposed a repeal of the controversial 2015 federal waters rule covered by the Clean Water Act. As we have previously reported in blogs and seminars, this very controversial prior rule encompassed management of rivers, streams, wetlands, and other...Read More

Last Friday (June 2, 1017), Louisiana’s Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the lower court’s award of more than $23 million, plus attorney fees, to Gloria’s Ranch, LLC, for damages incurred by the defendants’ refusal to release their oil and gas lease after it expired according to its terms in Gloria’s Ranch, L.L.C. v. Tauren...Read More

Last Thursday, the D.C. Circuit granted the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s motion to delay oral arguments scheduled on May 18 for litigation filed by an assortment of coal producing companies, which are challenging the agency’s “Supplemental Finding That It Is Appropriate and Necessary To Regulate Hazardous Air Pollutants From Coal and Oil Fired Electric Utility...Read More

In the ongoing struggle between the State of Indiana and the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (“IDEM”), the Indiana House of Representatives has again come forward with a plan to limit IDEM’s ability to regulate state and local environmental policy beyond that required at the federal level. Specifically, House Bill No. 1082, often referred to...Read More