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May 15, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including the rising popularity of infrastructure districts to meet funding needs, tech-based solutions for developers to navigate building laws, and one BigLaw leader's view of how tariffs are affecting capital in real estate deals.
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May 15, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday sued Connecticut in federal court over a recently enacted state law that subjects in-custody deaths to state oversight, requires federal agents to wear identifying badges, and bans law enforcement officers from wearing facemasks, calling the act "blatantly unconstitutional."
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May 15, 2026
A Texas federal judge on Friday dismissed Alex Jones' appeal over whether Infowars operator Free Speech Systems LLC's assets are part of his Chapter 7 estate, a move that continues to allow the families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting to pursue assets through state-court collection efforts that would help satisfy judgments exceeding $1 billion.
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May 15, 2026
A Second Circuit panelist said Friday that an argument advanced by a group of objectors to a $147.5 million cost-of-insurance settlement is "weird," noting that its logic depends on securing an even better outcome in separate litigation.
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May 15, 2026
About two months after losing a summary judgment bid, a plastic and paper bag manufacturer has settled a lawsuit claiming it punished two Black workers for complaining about colleagues' racist comments, Connecticut federal court records show.
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May 15, 2026
The operator of Infowars says bankrupt broadcaster Alex Jones has a legal right to "freely compete" with his former outlet, telling a Texas appeals court the website shut down because a court-appointed receiver failed to pay a third-party streaming service, not because Jones absconded with its property.
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May 15, 2026
The operator of one of the largest state fairs in the U.S., known as The Big E, alleged in a lawsuit removed to federal court Friday that its insurers are wrongly relying on a list of policy exclusions to deny coverage for a wrongful death suit brought by the family of a mixed martial arts fighter, who died following an event at the Massachusetts fairgrounds in 2022.
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May 15, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court will take a closer look at a circuit split over the deference that should be allotted to U.S. Sentencing Commission commentary, and a man convicted in the killing of an infant has been released after 27 years served over evidence that points to pneumonia as the likely cause of death.
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May 14, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday accused the Yale School of Medicine of discriminating against white and Asian applicants, saying an investigation revealed Black and Latino students have a much higher chance of getting into the school.
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May 14, 2026
A Connecticut mayor placed the integrity of a wrongful conviction trial "at grave risk" by speaking to the media, a judge said in issuing a gag order this week, also noting that the jury will be instructed on the importance of ignoring news stories.
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May 14, 2026
United Rentals Inc. on Thursday asked a Connecticut federal judge to approve a permanent injunction blocking a former North Carolina salesperson from working for a competitor within 100 miles of United's Raleigh branch office through mid-January 2027, ending a 4-month-old noncompete suit.
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May 14, 2026
The Second Circuit on Thursday affirmed a 20-year sentence for an Ecuadorian man from Florida who pushed the $14 million, international Forcount cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, concluding that "any error" from a broadcast of the sentencing did not impact the outcome.
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May 14, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge has refused to let generic-drug makers seek Third Circuit intervention in their bid to disqualify the lead counsel for insurers Humana and Molina, concluding the fight would only further delay the long-running case ahead of its first trial in the price-fixing multidistrict litigation.
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May 14, 2026
A Connecticut state judge has delayed trials in two combined civil rights lawsuits by Michael Skakel, a Kennedy family cousin, over a Greenwich police investigation that ended with his since-reversed conviction for the high-profile 1975 murder of Martha Moxley.
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May 14, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that federal courts that have sent a dispute to arbitration have jurisdiction to confirm or vacate a subsequent award, affirming a Second Circuit decision enforcing an award issued in a discrimination case involving a former hotel employee.
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May 13, 2026
The Connecticut Department of Children and Families committed a "failure of epic proportions" when a father took custody of a 7-month-old he murdered five days later by throwing the boy into a river, an attorney for the slain infant's mother argued Wednesday in a $20 million lawsuit against the state.
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May 13, 2026
Victorinox Swiss Army Inc. filed suit Tuesday in an effort to identify the authorized sellers of its iconic knives and other products who are allegedly diverting goods to unauthorized resellers, including merchants on Amazon.com.
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May 13, 2026
The Federal Reserve has broad discretion to cut financial institutions off from master accounts, the Second Circuit ruled Wednesday, rejecting a Puerto Rico bank's argument that it has a statutory right to what is commonly referred to as "bank accounts for banks."
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May 13, 2026
Connecticut Supreme Court justices expressed doubt Wednesday that a 2022 opinion silently overturned a decades-old standing rule in foreclosure cases, musing about whether the General Assembly's choice to stay on the sidelines and the standards of other states meant that the original decision was right all along.
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May 13, 2026
The City of Stamford and a local fire district are pushing back against a bid by 3M and others to sanction them for moving their claims from Connecticut to Montana, saying the sanctions bid misrepresents the facts and circumstances motivating them to join the litigation.
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May 13, 2026
An Illinois federal judge Wednesday granted preliminary approval to two settlements totaling over $136 million that Atkore Inc. has agreed to pay to resolve allegations it conspired with other polyvinyl chloride pipe producers to fix prices.
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May 13, 2026
Counsel for World Wrestling Entertainment shareholders urged the Delaware Chancery Court on Wednesday to draw evidence sanctions against former CEO Vince McMahon and other company leaders, arguing that deleted Signal messages, missing texts and discarded notes undercut the record in their challenge to WWE's $21.4 billion merger with Ultimate Fighting Championship.
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May 13, 2026
Two people who accused a reproductive endocrinologist of using his own sperm to impregnate their mothers have proposed that the doctor settle their suit against him for a total of $880,000, according to separate offers filed in Connecticut state court.
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May 12, 2026
A Webster Financial Corp. shareholder is challenging what he calls the bank's "deeply flawed, self-interested sale" to Banco Santander SA for $12 billion, telling a Connecticut state court that the proposed deal undervalues Webster while enriching its CEO with a tripled salary and $10 million "signing bonus."
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May 12, 2026
The grandmother of a murdered 7-month-old testified in a civil trial Tuesday that the baby's death "wasn't intentional," even though the Connecticut Supreme Court upheld her son's murder conviction for dropping the infant from a 90-foot-high bridge into the Connecticut River.