By: Blair R. Vandivier On the evening of March 21, 2025, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (“FinCEN”) announced a new interim final rule...
U.S. Citizens and Domestic Entities Not Required to File BOI
By: Anthony R. Jost In a significant development, the U.S. Treasury Department announced on March 2, 2025 that it will suspend enforcement of the...
ALERT: Injunction Suspending Enforcement of Corporate Transparency Act Reinstated
By: Katie S. Riles and Ryan L. Leitch As we previously reported, on December 3, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of...
Indiana’s Personal Liability Notice and Subcontractors
By Kevin N. Tharp — Partner When faced with the prospect of non-payment for labor and materials supplied to an Indiana construction project, most...
Injunction Suspends Enforcement of CTA
By: Blair R. Vandivier and John L. Egloff Please be aware that on December 3, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of...
Court vacates salary threshold for exempt status
Last Friday (November 15, 2024), the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Department of Labor’s salary threshold final...
Federal District Court Issues Nationwide Injunction
Yesterday, a federal district court in Texas issued a nationwide injunction prohibiting the Federal Trade Commission from implementing its rule...
New FTC Noncompete Rule May Change the Employment Landscape
By: Patrick S. McCarney After more than a year of deliberation about a rule first proposed in January 2023 and after consideration of more than...
GWDS — Appellate Courts Limit Damages
Indiana has three wrongful death statutes. The General Wrongful Death Statute (“GWDS”) permits the personal representative of the decedent to bring...
Corporate Transparency Act — What You Need to Know RIGHT NOW!
By: Blair R. Vandivier and John L. Egloff We are writing to advise you of a new federal law that will affect many business entities that operate as...
Employment Noncompete Agreements Under Attack
Noncompete agreements have been used for years by employers to protect themselves from employees who might otherwise hurt their business by working...
Construction Lien Waivers: Signers Beware
By Kevin N. Tharp — RBE Partner As the end of a calendar month approaches, construction subcontractors finish preparing and submitting their monthly...
Federal Trade Commission Takes Step to Ban Most Non-Compete Agreements Nationwide
By Patrick S. McCarney - RBE Attorney The Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) recently announced that it plans to ban most non-compete agreements...
SCOTUS Accepts Indiana Nursing Home Case
By: Laura Binford & Jaclyn Flint - PartnersRBE successfully obtained a dismissal of claims under the Federal Nursing Home Reform Act against...
Update: Fifth Circuit’s Stay on OSHA’s COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing Regulations
As a result of the Fifth Circuit’s stay on OSHA’s COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing regulations (ETS), OSHA announced on Friday: “OSHA has suspended...
Temporary Block on OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (sitting in New Orleans) has put a temporary block on OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard (“ETS”). The ETS would...
Immunity for Healthcare Providers During COVID-19 Crisis
On March 6, 2020, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb issued Executive Order 20-02 which declared a public health emergency in the State of Indiana...
A Potential Business Pipeline: Government Contract Awards
Companies restarting their businesses post-pandemic shutdown will be seeking creative ways to both renew customers and find new pipelines of...