Corporate Disclosure Order Can’t Derail Separate Appeal, US Says

A Texas federal judge’s nationwide preliminary injunction halting enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act reflects “multiple serious errors” and shouldn’t impact a pending appeal in a separate case, the federal government told the Eleventh Circuit.

The US appealed the Dec. 3 order from Judge Amos L. Mazzant III of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Texas to the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Thursday. But the government already was challenging a separate, narrower injunction before the Eleventh Circuit.

Mazzant’s order relied on the same faulty reasoning the government rebutted during oral arguments before ...