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April 01, 2026
A D.C. real estate developer and attorney is claiming that a local law firm, a contractor and an Israeli investor ran a coordinated "lien extortion" scheme to freeze his property sales before attempting to extort him in a new civil RICO suit.
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April 01, 2026
Michigan and one of its cities asked a federal court Wednesday to temporarily block U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from converting a warehouse into a detention center, arguing the federal government didn't notify local officials about the project and didn't conduct required environmental reviews.
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April 01, 2026
A coalition of small-business quartz fabricators claimed that the U.S. International Trade Commission vote Wednesday determining that recent quartz imports harm domestic producers may cost the industry jobs in a move that could lead to new tariffs, according to press releases.
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April 01, 2026
Corrosion-resistant steel imported from Thailand into the U.S. may be circumventing duty orders on South Korean imports of such products, the U.S. Department of Commerce said Wednesday, announcing it is opening an investigation.
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March 31, 2026
Internet service provider Gigapower and the South Carolina city it was beefing with over pole attachments have come to terms on their own and no longer need the Federal Communications Commission to step in and settle the matter.
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March 31, 2026
Verizon Wireless did not provide the North Carolina landowner it signed a cell tower equipment lease with what it had promised in the bargain, and therefore the lease is not valid, a North Carolina federal court has ruled.
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March 31, 2026
A Washington, D.C., federal judge Tuesday granted a historical preservation nonprofit's request for a preliminary injunction halting President Donald Trump's plans to turn the White House's East Wing into an "enormous" 89,000-square-foot ballroom, saying "unless and until Congress blesses this project through statutory authorization, construction has to stop!"
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March 31, 2026
An environmental justice group failed to show that the U.S. Navy's remediation plan for the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard Superfund site is arbitrary and capricious despite an analysis showing cancer risks exceeded the acceptable range, a California federal judge ruled.
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March 31, 2026
An insurer doesn't owe additional coverage to the owner of a vacant church building beyond the $875,000 it already paid for a 2021 arson fire, a Missouri federal court ruled Tuesday, finding that the owner materially breached the policy's cooperation clause by failing to properly submit its damages.
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March 31, 2026
A Colorado-based construction company can proceed with its lawsuit claiming Parson Government Services Inc. wrongfully terminated its $36 million subcontract for a U.S. government airfield project on the remote Marshall Islands, a Colorado federal judge ruled Monday.
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March 31, 2026
The owner of a now-defunct metal fabrication and construction company will have to shell out $2.5 million in damages in a case seeking unpaid wages, a Colorado federal judge has ruled, agreeing with a magistrate judge's recommendation to enter default judgment but disagreeing that theft damages were not necessary.
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March 31, 2026
Steptoe LLP has hired an international arbitration veteran from Vinson & Elkins LLP who helped secure a $1.47 billion award for Iraq to join the firm as a partner in its international disputes practice in Houston.
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March 31, 2026
U.S. lawmakers have proposed bipartisan legislation that will update and extend the key law for tribal housing support through 2032, arguing that for too long Indigenous communities have gone without the resources they need to build and maintain affordable housing.
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March 31, 2026
A split Pennsylvania appeals court on Tuesday reinstated an injury suit against Caterpillar Inc. and an equipment rental company from a New Jersey worker who was injured by an excavator, finding the companies hadn't sufficiently shown that the suit belongs in the Garden State instead.
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March 31, 2026
A worker's suit accusing a production supervisor at a packaging company of firing him after he reported violations for unpaid overtime should have stayed alive, the Fourth Circuit ruled, saying a Virginia federal court erroneously ruled that he couldn't support his claim and that he fraudulently joined an in-state supervisor.
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March 31, 2026
Executives and board members at a mechanical engineering company defeated a class action claiming top brass were illegally compensated for helping refinance an employee stock ownership plan, with a Georgia federal judge ruling that workers hadn't shown that management concealed the shares they owned.
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March 31, 2026
Following the finalization of triple-digit antidumping duties, steel concrete reinforcing bar from Algeria faces another nearly 73% duty after the U.S. International Trade Administration finalized its determinations in a countervailing duty investigation, according to a notice published Tuesday.
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March 30, 2026
A D.C. federal judge on Monday ruled against environmental groups challenging the U.S. Forest Service's timber harvesting program, holding that annual timber targets aren't discrete agency actions for purposes of judicial review, and that the government sufficiently assessed the environmental impact of logging projects.
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March 30, 2026
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill that imposes a variety of preemptions over local governments' land use review powers, potentially teeing up a fight with Miami Beach over a contentious proposal that could pave the way for a resort water park project that faces steep opposition.
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March 30, 2026
A company that develops data centers in space said Monday that it has raised $170 million in its Series A fundraising round, becoming a unicorn startup with a $1.1 billion overall valuation.
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March 30, 2026
A Nevada federal judge says the federal government didn't violate the Endangered Species Act in approving a more than 7,100-acre lithium mining project that conservation groups argue will drive a rare wildflower into extinction, finding the decision was not arbitrary or capricious under recent Supreme Court precedent.
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March 30, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge has upheld a $17,000 trademark infringement judgment against industrial fastener company Peninsula Components after it was found liable for using its competitor Penn Engineering & Manufacturing Corp's "PEM" name in Google Ads, ruling that the defendant presented no compelling reason to erase the verdict.
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March 30, 2026
A collection of local officials, religious leaders and civil rights groups is urging a federal judge to extend a pause on work to convert a Maryland warehouse into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center that could hold up to 1,500 people a day.
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March 27, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney insights into a pivotal moment for private credit, industry perspective on undervalued multifamily markets and a look at the litigation over immigration detention center projects.
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March 27, 2026
The Port of Tacoma's suit wrongfully seeks millions in remediation costs for contamination not associated with chemical company PQ LLC's operations on a Tacoma Tideflats property, the company has said in counterclaims brought against the port.