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• March 27, 2026

  Hospital System Beats Most Of REIT's $50M Floodwall Suit

  A New York federal judge on Friday mostly tossed a real estate investment trust's $50 million suit against the New York City Health and Hospitals Corp. and the NYC Economic Development Corp. over the design of a proposed floodwall for a downtown Manhattan life sciences campus project.

• March 27, 2026

  $70M Easement Tax Break Sticks After IRS Concedes Lateness

  A partnership is entitled to all of its claimed $70 million tax deduction for donating a conservation easement in Louisiana, as the IRS stipulated to missing a notification deadline for disallowing the tax break, according to a decision entered Friday in the U.S. Tax Court.

• March 27, 2026

  State Carbon Cost Disparities Are Pivotal In Data Center Siting

  When choosing U.S. data center locations, developers must carefully consider the patchwork of state and regional carbon emission pricing regimes that are layered on top of the federal permitting framework, creating compliance cost differentials that could add up to billions of dollars, say attorneys at Davis Graham.

• March 27, 2026

  25 Years Later, Dam Salmon Case Must Stay In Trial Court

  A district court judge in Oregon has rejected the federal government's efforts to end decades-long litigation over hydropower dam operations in the Columbia River Basin, saying arguments that the dispute is subject to Ninth Circuit review are unpersuasive and mistaken.

• March 27, 2026

  Colo. County Says DOI Skirted Review For Utah Oil Project

  A Colorado county has accused the U.S. Department of the Interior of unlawfully fast-tracking the approval of a Utah oil-by-rail transportation expansion project by misusing its emergency authority to bypass meaningful environmental review and public feedback.

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