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July 22, 2026
A D.C. federal judge appeared reluctant Wednesday to hand the Tohono O'odham Nation a preliminary injunction blocking the construction of 62 miles of border wall within what the tribe claims are its lands, saying that what the tribe was asking him to do was unprecedented.
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July 22, 2026
A South Carolina federal judge Wednesday told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency it must comply with the court's prior order and continue administering a $2.8 billion environmental and climate justice grant funding program that was authorized by Congress in 2022.
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July 22, 2026
Fannie Mae has voluntarily dropped the remaining claims in its lawsuit accusing borrower Affinity Living Communities of defaulting on $28.3 million worth of loans from the government-backed lender, telling the court the appointed receivership had achieved its purpose.
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July 22, 2026
A Rhode Island construction contractor installed defective and "unreasonably dangerous" guardrails on Interstate 95 in Connecticut, which caused a 34-year-old woman to die in a collision and car fire, her estate said in a wrongful death lawsuit filed in Connecticut state court Monday.
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July 22, 2026
Two pension funds launched a proposed class action against Dallas-based Primoris Services Corp. alleging the company overhyped the profitability of its renewable energy projects by underestimating costs, telling a Texas federal court that Primoris' negligence caused the company's stock to nosedive.
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July 22, 2026
The U.S. Department of Commerce will determine whether spray foam systems assembled in Canada with Chinese components and then exported to the U.S. are circumventing duties placed on a foam-making chemical, the department said Wednesday.
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July 22, 2026
A pair of Canadian softwood lumber producers' imports to the U.S. will be subject to a countervailing duty after the U.S. Court of International Trade signed off on the U.S. Department of Commerce's fourth pass at the rate calculation, finally resolving the dispute.
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July 22, 2026
Artificial intelligence infrastructure company TECfusions reached a $4 billion valuation in a Wednesday deal guided by Sidley Austin LLP and Paul Hastings LLP to go public using a blank check company.
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July 22, 2026
The Tenth Circuit has reversed a jury verdict that favored a farmer who was run over by his own tractor, finding the tractor maker had no duty to warn him of the "open and obvious" hazard of getting out of, and stepping in front of, a moving tractor.
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July 22, 2026
A Georgia federal judge on Wednesday gave final approval to glass products maker AGC America Inc.'s nearly $600,000 settlement resolving claims that it failed to safeguard the personal data of thousands of its workers in a December 2023 data breach.
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July 21, 2026
A Washington federal judge on Tuesday said a building products company cannot escape a proposed class action claiming it denied workers wages and breaks, finding that the former employee behind the suit plausibly alleged unpaid work and that federal compensability rules do not apply to her state law wage claims.
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July 21, 2026
A Washington federal judge leaned on a prior ruling to reject a constitutional challenge to Seattle's Mandatory Housing Affordability program, which requires developers to pay the city a fee in lieu of adding affordable units to project plans.
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July 21, 2026
The D.C. Circuit ruled Tuesday that the Federal Aviation Administration sufficiently analyzed the environmental impacts of a regional Connecticut airport expansion project, saying the U.S. Supreme Court's Seven County ruling made clear that courts cannot override agencies' reasonable National Environmental Policy Act judgments or explanations.
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July 21, 2026
The Trump administration told a New Mexico federal judge that free speech and religious exercise objections are no basis to stop it from seizing 14 acres of land from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces for a border security project.
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July 21, 2026
The operators of the ship that slammed into Baltimore's Key Bridge in 2024 blasted economic damages claims from the city and county of Baltimore, as well as private claimants, telling a federal judge that none had a proprietary interest in the bridge because it was owned by the state.
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July 21, 2026
The U.S. and Jordan signed a trade agreement Tuesday that would lower non-tariff trade barriers on U.S. exports in exchange for a U.S. commitment to impose a 10% tariff rate on imports from the kingdom when new duties to address goods produced with forced labor take effect.
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July 21, 2026
A New Jersey appellate panel on Tuesday reversed a lower court ruling that vacated a planning board's rejection of a proposed one-story, 161,000-square-foot big box retail project.
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July 21, 2026
A Washington tribe and an environmental group are asking the Ninth Circuit to deny a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission bid to hold a challenge against the agency's issuance of a hydroelectric license in abeyance, arguing that it won't stop the project from moving toward construction that will destroy resources.
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July 21, 2026
A federal judge hit pause on a Georgia company's challenge to an Atlanta ordinance that regulates billboards, after the company said it would ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review an Eleventh Circuit decision that the ordinance passed constitutional muster.
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July 21, 2026
Hardwood and decorative plywood imports from China, Indonesia and Vietnam are facing possible steep duties after the U.S. Department of Commerce finalized determinations that the goods are being sold at unfair prices.
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July 20, 2026
Environmental and community groups asked a Texas federal judge Friday to grant them summary judgment in their lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's waiver of dozens of environmental and other federal laws to speed border wall construction across roughly 430 miles, arguing it's a clear violation of the major questions doctrine.
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July 20, 2026
Companies that pledge to build, expand or refurbish aluminum smelters in the U.S. will be able to apply for a reduced tariff rate on certain amounts of aluminum, President Donald Trump announced Monday.
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July 20, 2026
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims' long-awaited decision on a California wind farm's valuation for a now-defunct cash grant program offers insight into an issue on which the IRS has issued little guidance: how to value clean energy projects financed by the investment tax credit.
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July 20, 2026
A Thai steel pipe producer will be hit with a 15% antidumping duty after the U.S. Court of International Trade signed off on a federal government determination finding the record was missing necessary information.
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July 20, 2026
The Third Circuit ruled in a precedential opinion Monday that an industrial equipment supplier did not have a duty to provide safety training to civilian workers who were killed or injured by an explosion in a paint-mixing facility at an army depot.