Construction

  • September 19, 2024

    Wells Fargo Judge Says NDA Isn't A 'Gag' In Loan Bias Case

    A California federal judge on Thursday challenged Wells Fargo's arguments seeking to prevent a former underwriter from testifying as an expert in a proposed class action claiming the bank discriminated against non-white borrowers, saying a confidentiality agreement the ex-employee purportedly signed couldn't be used as a "gag" to silence him.

  • September 19, 2024

    76ers To Get New Philly Arena In $1.3B Project, Mayor Says

    The Philadelphia 76ers are getting a new arena in Chinatown as part of a $1.3 billion project that will bring hundreds of jobs, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker announced in a video message.

  • September 19, 2024

    Trade Court OKs Reduced Tariffs On Chinese Wood Floors

    The U.S. Court of International Trade greenlet revised antidumping tariffs on Chinese wood flooring, saying the reduction addressed its concerns with how the U.S. Department of Commerce calculated the tariffs for Chinese producers outside Beijing's control.

  • September 19, 2024

    9th Circ. Won't Revive Hilton Builder's $7.5M Insurance Suit

    Two insurers for a construction company have no duty to provide coverage for a more than $7.5 million water damage claim, the Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday, finding a rain damage exclusion in the company's policies is applicable.

  • September 19, 2024

    Quinn Emanuel Role Must Face Scrutiny, Djibouti Tells DC Circ.

    The Republic of Djibouti has told the D.C. Circuit that there is no need to take a second look at a panel's July opinion that sent a dispute involving a $470 million-plus arbitral award back to the trial court to determine whether Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP had authority to represent a port operator in a long-running legal battle.

  • September 19, 2024

    Commerce Ordered To Explain How It Nixed Steel Duty

    The U.S. Court of International Trade remanded the U.S. Department of Commerce's antidumping duty on Italian steel plates for explanation as to why Commerce used an alternative methodology that dropped the duty to 0% while recalculating the tariff.

  • September 18, 2024

    Iraq Wants DC Circ. To Upend Cypriot Co.'s $120M Award

    Iraq has told the D.C. Circuit that it is appealing a lower court decision giving a Cypriot construction firm permission to force the country to satisfy a nearly $120 million arbitral award obtained in a dispute over a major port project.

  • September 18, 2024

    Mexican Parts Maker Rehires Worker To End USMCA Probe

    A Mexican parts manufacturer rehired a worker fired allegedly for conducting union activities and agreed to train its workforce on collective bargaining rights to end an investigation under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement into claims that the plant violated workers' organizing rights, the U.S. Trade Representative has announced.

  • September 18, 2024

    Feds Delay Report Into Surfside Condo Collapse Until 2026

    Federal investigators said a draft report into the June 24, 2021, collapse of the Champlain Towers in Surfside, Florida, that killed nearly 100 people won't be ready until 2026, instead of next year, after a series of holdups.

  • September 18, 2024

    DOJ Says Ship Is Liable For $100M In Baltimore Bridge Collapse

    The U.S. Department of Justice is suing to recover $100 million from the owner and the manager of the cargo ship that slammed into Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge in March, alleging gross negligence on their part killed six people and destroyed a vital transportation corridor.

  • September 18, 2024

    Mich. Town Wants Stay During Appeal Over $2B Battery Plant

    A central Michigan township has asked a federal judge to pause enforcement while it appeals a previous ruling finding local officials violated a development agreement by trying to withdraw support for a more than $2 billion battery components plant to be built by Gotion Inc.

  • September 18, 2024

    Toshiba Loses Bid To Sanction Mich. Energy Cos. Over Depo

    A Michigan federal judge has rejected Toshiba and its subsidiary's request for sanctions against the state's largest energy companies despite Toshiba's claim that their witness failed to answer certain questions at a deposition, ruling Toshiba didn't properly lay out what it wanted the witness to talk about and that his other answers were appropriate.

  • September 17, 2024

    Univ. Can Expand Coastal Campus, Mass. Appeals Court Says

    A Massachusetts university has no obligation to preserve for public use 12 acres of land in a coastal town just north of Boston, the state's intermediate-level appeals court ruled.

  • September 17, 2024

    Mass. Contractor Owes $77K For Violating Davis-Bacon Act

    Five construction workers recovered $77,206 after they were stiffed of prevailing wages and fringe benefits on a Davis-Bacon Act project in Boston, the U.S. Department of Labor announced Monday.

  • September 16, 2024

    Ex-Union Leader's Nephew Heads Off Extortion Trial With Plea

    The nephew of the former business manager of International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 98 pled guilty Monday to attempting to shake down a casino contractor for a paycheck for work he never performed, Philadelphia's top federal prosecutor announced.

  • September 16, 2024

    Telecom Installer To Pay Workers $600K To End DOL Probe

    A Michigan-based fiber optics installer will pay $594,000 in back pay and damages to 63 workers whom the U.S. Department of Labor says the company misclassified as independent contractors, the agency announced Monday.

  • September 16, 2024

    2 Former High-Ranking FDNY Officers Charged With Bribery

    Two former high-ranking New York City Fire Department chiefs were charged in a federal indictment unsealed Monday with taking bribes to fast-track fire safety plan reviews and inspections for certain businesses.

  • September 13, 2024

    The 2024 Regional Powerhouses

    The law firms on Law360's list of 2024 Regional Powerhouses reflected the local peculiarities of their states while often representing clients in deals and cases that captured national attention.

  • September 13, 2024

    NJ Jury Puts $26M Price Tag On Land In Development Battle

    A New Jersey federal jury found that the owner of a 22-acre former Michelin Tire & Rubber Co. factory at the heart of a land-taking battle should get $25.6 million from a borough redevelopment agency that argued the parcel would fetch less than a third of that figure on the market.

  • September 13, 2024

    Conn. High Court Snapshot: Firm's Bill Battle Rages In Sept.

    The Connecticut Supreme Court's September case lineup tasks the justices with helping a federal court judge decide if McCarter & English LLP can fetch punitive damages in a billing battle with an ex-client, and if parents suing Target and others can be compensated for the impairment of their relationship with their injured child. Here, Law360 previews some highlights of the high court's argument schedule for the month.

  • September 13, 2024

    Real Estate Recap: Foreclosure Legal Fees, Climate Resilience

    Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including trends in legal fees from commercial mortgage foreclosures and insights into property resilience in areas affected by extreme weather events.

  • September 13, 2024

    NC City Illegally Foiled Affordable Housing Effort, Builder Says

    A coastal North Carolina city conspired to block an affordable housing project near the Camp Lejeune military base, flying in the face of demand, a project developer claimed in North Carolina federal court.

  • September 13, 2024

    Panama's Ex-Prez Fights Alleged Wrongful Extradition

    Panama's ex-president told the Eleventh Circuit Friday that a lower court wrongly dismissed his lawsuit challenging the extradition to his home country, saying he has standing because the U.S. government violated an international treaty by sending him back to face criminal charges beyond the scope of the original request.

  • September 13, 2024

    Trio Of BigLaw Mergers Expected To Drive More Deal Talks

    After months of a relatively steady pace of law firm mergers and acquisitions, the trio of proposed BigLaw tie-ups announced in recent days will likely spur more firms toward entertaining similar deal talks, experts say. Here, Law360 offers a snapshot of the proposed deals.

  • September 13, 2024

    Mortgage Co. CEO Gets 11 Years In Prison For Ponzi Scams

    A mortgage company owner was sentenced Thursday to 11 years and three months in prison for defrauding investors, a community bank and the government's pandemic relief program to cover gambling debts and personal expenses like luxury cars, Philadelphia's top federal prosecutor announced.

Expert Analysis

  • SBA Proposal Materially Alters Contractor Recertification

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    The Small Business Administration's new proposed rule on recertification affects eligibility for set-aside contracts, significantly alters the landscape for mergers and acquisitions in the government contracts industry, and could have other unintended downstream consequences, says Sam Finnerty at PilieroMazza.

  • A Preview Of AI Priorities Under The Next President

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    For the first time in a presidential election, both of the leading candidates and their parties have been vocal about artificial intelligence policy, offering clues on the future of regulation as AI continues to advance and congressional action continues to stall, say attorneys at Mintz.

  • How Companies Are Approaching Insider Trading Policies

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    An analysis of insider trading policies recently disclosed by 49 S&P 500 companies under a new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission rule reveals that while specific provisions vary from company to company, certain common themes are emerging, say attorneys at Gibson Dunn.

  • How Methods Are Evolving In Textualist Interpretations

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    Textualists at the U.S. Supreme Court are increasingly considering new methods such as corpus linguistics and surveys to evaluate what a statute's text communicates to an ordinary reader, while lower courts even mull large language models like ChatGPT as supplements, says Kevin Tobia at Georgetown Law.

  • Trending At The PTAB: Obviousness In Director Reviews

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    Three July decisions from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office favoring petitioners indicate a willingness by the director to review substantive issues, such as obviousness, particularly in cases where the director believes the Patent Trial and Appeal Board provided incorrect or inadequate rationale to support its decisions, say attorneys at Finnegan.

  • Financial Incentives May Alleviate Affordable Housing Crisis

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    There is a wide array of financial incentives and assistance that the government can provide to both real estate developers and individuals to chip away at the housing affordability problem from multiple angles, say Eric DeBear and Madeline Williams at Cozen.

  • Why Attorneys Should Consider Community Leadership Roles

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    Volunteering and nonprofit board service are complementary to, but distinct from, traditional pro bono work, and taking on these community leadership roles can produce dividends for lawyers, their firms and the nonprofit causes they support, says Katie Beacham at Kilpatrick.

  • Firms Must Offer A Trifecta Of Services In Post-Chevron World

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    After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision overturning Chevron deference, law firms will need to integrate litigation, lobbying and communications functions to keep up with the ramifications of the ruling and provide adequate counsel quickly, says Neil Hare at Dentons.

  • 5 Tips To Succeed In A Master Of Laws Program And Beyond

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    As lawyers and recent law school graduates begin their Master of Laws coursework across the country, they should keep a few pointers in mind to get the most out of their programs and kick-start successful careers in their practice areas, says Kelley Miller at Reed Smith.

  • Opinion

    Portland's Gross Receipts Tax Oversteps City's Authority

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    Recent measures by Portland, Oregon, that expand the voter-approved scope of the Clean Energy Surcharge on certain retail sales eviscerate the common meaning of the word "retail" and exceed the city's chartered authority to levy tax, say Nikki Dobay at Greenberg Traurig and Jeff Newgard at Peak Policy.

  • Series

    Being An Opera Singer Made Me A Better Lawyer

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    My journey from the stage to the courtroom has shown that the skills I honed as an opera singer – punctuality, memorization, creativity and more – have all played a vital role in my success as an attorney, says Gerard D'Emilio at GableGotwals.

  • How Law Firms Can Avoid 'Collaboration Drag'

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    Law firm decision making can be stifled by “collaboration drag” — characterized by too many pointless meetings, too much peer feedback and too little dissent — but a few strategies can help stakeholders improve decision-making processes and build consensus, says Steve Groom at Miles Mediation.

  • Philly Project Case Renews Ongoing Fraud Theory Tug-Of-War

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    In its upcoming term, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Kousisis v. U.S., a case involving wire fraud convictions related to Philadelphia bridge repair projects, and may once again further rein in prosecutorial attempts to expand theories of fraud beyond core traditional property rights, say Jonathan Halpern and Kyra Rosenzweig at Holland & Knight.

  • Opinion

    Litigation Funding Disclosure Key To Open, Impartial Process

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    Blanket investor and funding agreement disclosures should be required in all civil cases where the investor has a financial interest in the outcome in order to address issues ranging from potential conflicts of interest to national security concerns, says Bob Goodlatte, former U.S. House Representative for Virginia.

  • Carbon Offset Case A Win For CFTC Enviro Fraud Task Force

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    An Illinois federal court's decision in Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Ikkurty — earning the CFTC a sizeable monetary award that will likely incentivize similar enforcement pursuit — shows the impact of the commission's Environmental Fraud Task Force, say attorneys at Steptoe.

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