Nicholas Datlowe

1 week ago | news.bloombergtax.com | Tonya Riley |Kartikay Mehrotra |Nicholas Datlowe

A federal judge struck down Ohio’s law limiting teen social media use, marking another court win for the tech industry group NetChoice fighting similar restrictions nationwide. Judge Algenon L. Marbley granted a permanent injunction against the Social Media Parental Notification Act in a Wednesday decision for the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio. The law required platforms to verify whether its users are at least 16 and demanded parental consent for younger users.

2 weeks ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Perry Cooper |Laura Francis |Nicholas Datlowe

A long-running dispute between professional players’ unions and Pittsburgh over a tax on visiting athletes gives the Pennsylvania Supreme Court an opportunity to more clearly define a state constitutional requirement that taxes be applied uniformly. Pittsburgh will ask the high court at oral arguments Thursday to overturn a 6-1 state appeals court opinion striking down the city’s 3% facilities fee for violating that provision.

1 month ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Tristan Navera |Nicholas Datlowe

March 24, 2025, 4:30 PM UTCCorporate Transparency Act Suit Paused for Briefing on New RuleA new rule that narrows the scope of the Corporate Transparency Act to exclude domestic entities from its reporting requirement require a pause in the case and additional briefing about the rule’s impact. The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ordered both the Treasury Department and the plaintiffs in Texas Top Cop Shop v.

1 month ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | Brian Flood |Nicholas Datlowe

The US Supreme Court on Friday vacated a Seventh Circuit decision affirming former Chicago Alderman Patrick Daley Thompson’s convictions for lying to bank regulators. The law he was convicted under—which prohibits knowingly making “any false statement” to certain financial institutions—doesn’t also criminalize statements that are misleading but not false, the unanimous court said in a decision authored by Chief Justice John G.

1 month ago | news.bloomberglaw.com | John Woolley |Nicholas Datlowe

The US government’s decision to not enforce the Corporate Transparency Act against citizens or domestic companies should be fatal to a pending constitutional challenge against the law, it told the Fifth Circuit.