The Corporate Transparency Act (CTA) Became Effective on January 1, 2024!

Congress is poised to significantly expand access to Subchapter V, the streamlined Chapter 11 process designed for small business debtors. If signed into law, the Bankruptcy Threshold Adjustment Act will permanently raise the Subchapter V debt limit to $7.5 million, more than doubling the current $3,424,000 cap and potentially making the streamlined process available to […]

S-4635 would extend the State’s compliance timeline for intoxicating hemp products by one month, keeping New Jersey in step with federal hemp deadlines. On October 1, 2026, Senator Nicholas Scutari introduced Senate Bill 4635 (S-4635), a targeted but important amendment to New Jersey’s hemp regulatory framework that would move the New Jersey hemp deadline for […]

State launches a public information portal and opens a pathway for advanced reactors. New Jersey has taken another significant step toward expanding nuclear generation as Governor Mikie Sherrill convened the first meeting of the State’s Nuclear Task Force on October 1, 2026, and launched the new “Nuclear NJ” public information website. Together, these initiatives signal […]

Failing to file a rent control exemption notice with the municipal construction official did not, on its own, cost a New Jersey apartment building its exemption from local rent control. That is the central holding of a September 28, 2026 opinion from U.S. District Judge Madeline Cox Arleo in the closely watched Portside Towers litigation […]

What project developers, energy companies, manufacturers, and data center operators need to know. The Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026, introduced in the U.S. Senate on September 30, 2026, is a federal permitting reform bill that would make sweeping changes to the federal environmental review and permitting framework governing energy, infrastructure, manufacturing, mining, […]

NJDEP’s extension of a key Recycled Content Law exemption provides short-term compliance relief while creating uncertainty across recycling markets. The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (“NJDEP”) has extended a key exemption under New Jersey’s Recycled Content Law, delaying mandatory post-consumer recycled content (“PCR”) requirements for food-contact plastic packaging and containers until January 1, 2030. […]