The Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon granted the federal government’s request to be allowed to enforce a federal anti-money-laundering law while the government’s appeal moves forward in the conservative U.

The act aims to stop fraud and money laundering by requiring most U.S. businesses to disclose which owners control more than 25 percent of the stock or equity.

On January 23, 2025, in the case of Texas Top Cop Shop, Inc., et al. v. Garland, et al., the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) granted the government the ability to lift the injunction which halted enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Agency (CTA) on December 26,

Enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act, which requires millions of companies to disclose their true ownership, remains on hold despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in favor of the Treasury Department.

The registration is part of the Corporate Transparency Act, an anti-money laundering statue passed in 2021. Under the CTA, the owners and part-owners of an estimated 32.6 million small businesses must register personal information with FinCEN,

Texas Supreme Court justices heard argument on whether Southern Methodist University has the right to separate from its founder.