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August 28, 2026
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed a bill into law on Aug. 27 that requires data centers in the state to provide the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities with semiannual water and energy usage reports.
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August 28, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including the latest higher-education projects driving legal work, as well as an interview with Debevoise & Plimpton LLP's new real estate practice group leader.
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August 28, 2026
The past week in London has seen shoe brand Crocs bring an appeal against the chief executive of the U.K.'s Intellectual Property Office, singer Alanis Morissette sued by the former head of operations at Live Nation Israel and the son of convicted fraudster Guo Wengui file an appeal against the Chapter 11 trustee controlling his father's bankruptcy estate.
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August 27, 2026
A developer seeking to build a mixed-use mid-rise in Cambridge, Massachusetts, says the city is unlawfully withholding its building permit unless the developer meets affordable-housing requirements and pays a $450,000 permit fee under an inclusionary housing ordinance, according to a complaint filed Thursday in state court.
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August 27, 2026
A California federal judge has thrown out a proposed class action alleging Uponor Inc.'s plastic pipes were defective and prone to leaking, saying the homeowner plaintiffs failed to establish that they relied on or could have relied on any misrepresentations allegedly made by the company.
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August 27, 2026
A Colorado sod company asked a federal judge for sanctions in its trade secrets suit against former workers and competing businesses, arguing they failed to preserve electronic files that could show whether they possessed, transferred or used the company's confidential information.
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August 27, 2026
The U.S. International Trade Commission affirmed that U.S. businesses are being hurt by imported steel concrete reinforcing bar from Vietnam, Egypt and Bulgaria that are being sold at unfair prices, setting up duty orders from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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August 26, 2026
A New Mexico church argued that the federal government's eminent domain powers are not designed to override protections for religious expression, objecting to a plan that would seize part of a pilgrimage site to build a border wall.
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August 26, 2026
A residential developer based in Denver has accused utility Public Service Co. of Colorado in state court of causing its business more than $25 million in damages after repeatedly failing to provide electrical power for the developer's projects.
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August 26, 2026
Andrew Elkhoury has made a successful transition from BigLaw to solo practice at Houston-based Elkhoury Law PLLC, highlighted by his selection by Texas' Harris County to develop and implement a design-build program for its future construction projects — earning him a spot among the construction law practitioners under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 26, 2026
An Oregon businessman who withheld employment taxes from employees' pay but did not pay the taxes to the IRS was sentenced to 42 months in prison for tax evasion and other crimes and ordered to pay nearly $1.2 million in restitution, the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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August 25, 2026
The U.S. Department of Commerce is looking to exit a Lummi Nation lawsuit claiming broadband construction disturbed ancestral remains, saying a Washington federal court lacks jurisdiction over the Native American tribe's suit because the department has not yet taken any final agency action.
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August 25, 2026
A Maryland federal judge has slashed claims from Baltimore, businesses and dockworkers seeking to recover millions in economic losses from the owner and operator of the container ship that slammed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge, saying the nearly century-old Robins Dry Dock rule bars many of their claims.
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August 25, 2026
The developer of a luxury hotel in Aspen, Colorado, claimed that the project's architecture firm caused more than $10 million in damages by making a series of errors and omissions in its work, according to a complaint filed Monday in Colorado state court.
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August 25, 2026
HM Revenue & Customs can pause a case challenging its accusations that the former director of several construction companies owes almost £1.7 million ($2.3 million) in taxes while an appellate court decides underlying issues, the First-tier Tribunal said in a decision.
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August 25, 2026
New Mexico's Supreme Court in a pair of rulings paused an air permit hearing and ordered a developer to stop drawing water from the construction site of Oracle, OpenAI and SoftBank's Project Jupiter data center, leading a lawmaker to call on state officials to release more information about the project.
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August 25, 2026
The Canadian government struck back on Tuesday at the latest round of U.S. tariffs, announcing tariffs of its own of up to 50% on more than 800 categories of products worth CA$27.6 billion ($20 billion) that will come into force on Sept. 8.
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August 25, 2026
Vedder has added a seasoned employee benefits and executive compensation partner from Winston Taylor LLP to join its practice as a new shareholder in Chicago, where she will advise clients on a wide range of retirement, health and welfare benefits issues, the firm announced Tuesday.
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August 24, 2026
A divided Fifth Circuit has revived an architectural firm's copyright infringement claims over the use of its home designs in a Texas residential development, while affirming the dismissal of claims alleging that the defendants stripped copyright information from marketing materials.
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August 24, 2026
AT&T and Duke Energy are headed for arbitration in the hopes of settling their dispute over the rates the power company charges the telecom behemoth for pole attachments, the Federal Communications Commission has said.
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August 24, 2026
Liberty Mutual told a California federal court that two other insurers haven't paid their fair share of a pipe manufacturer's defense costs in lawsuits alleging the company's defective products led to leaks in construction projects, saying Liberty has contributed beyond its $1 million limit.
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August 24, 2026
A white nationalist association and other related parties have claimed that federal, state and local authorities are violating their constitutional free speech rights by conducting unfair investigations into the group's "whites-only" community in the state.
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August 24, 2026
Insurance broker Willis Towers Watson says rival Lockton Cos. orchestrated a "smash and grab" of 18 employees who all quit within a 45-minute span Wednesday to jump to Lockton, taking more than a dozen clients with them, according to a suit in Massachusetts state court.
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August 24, 2026
President Donald Trump on Monday escalated his trade war against Canada, saying he would implement 50% tariffs on vehicles and steel from the country in January, after a 50% levy took effect over the weekend on other goods imported from Canada.
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August 24, 2026
King & Spalding LLP has deepened its construction and energy litigation offerings with a Dallas-based counsel from Reed Smith LLP.