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May 01, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including a breakdown of federal and state efforts to expand affordable housing and how real estate attorneys are responding.
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May 01, 2026
A Florida jury heard in opening arguments Friday that a woman who died of lung cancer after smoking R.J. Reynolds cigarettes was a victim of the severely addictive nature of nicotine, something her lawyers said even the U.S. surgeon general didn't acknowledge until 1988.
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May 01, 2026
The Georgia Court of Appeals on Friday said a trial court should have ruled that arbitration was the right venue for a case over millions in allegedly unpaid bills for construction work a subcontractor performed on a Georgia electric vehicle battery facility.
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May 01, 2026
A federal judge in Boston heard elite universities argue Friday that the "early decision" admissions process is not a scheme to raise tuition but an option for students who want a better shot at admission to their first-choice school.
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May 01, 2026
A former Netflix engineer should have to arbitrate her lawsuit alleging she was fired for taking medical leave to address her mental health conditions, the streaming giant told a Georgia federal court, arguing her claims fall squarely in the purview of an arbitration agreement she signed.
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May 01, 2026
A Georgia-based medical technology firm that was hit with a $58 million verdict last month over claims that it conspired to have a former consultant arrested has asked a Fulton County judge for a new trial, arguing the court allowed a jury charge that was "erroneous, irrelevant, [and] not tailored to the evidence."
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May 01, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Friday affirmed the National Labor Relations Board's ruling that lieutenants who oversee guards at a Florida power plant are not union-ineligible supervisors, backing the board's finding that they don't use judgment when writing up lower-level workers.
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May 01, 2026
For most lawyers, getting to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court is a once-in-a-lifetime event, but for a select few, it's a common occurrence. Clement & Murphy PLLC name partner Paul Clement is one of those lawyers.
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May 01, 2026
Rapper 50 Cent has been hit with a lawsuit in Georgia federal court by a former executive at his companies, claiming that he threatened and harassed her after she refused to file a police report accusing a bodyguard of theft.
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May 01, 2026
Lawyers who work with clients on corporate governance matters had a warm response to a recent pledge from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins to let states handle such issues, saying the shift marks a return to the agency's historical approach and may spur increased activity among state regulators.
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May 01, 2026
A Georgia federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Justice to disclose more details about the timeline leading up to its January raid seizing ballots from Fulton County as he continues to weigh whether to force the government to return the hundreds of boxes of election materials.
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April 30, 2026
A Florida federal judge Wednesday denied the Federal Trade Commission's request for sanctions against two siblings accused of destroying evidence in a lawsuit claiming they sold $91 million of fake Affordable Care Act plans, saying it's "too much of a leap" to find they violated a temporary restraining order.
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April 30, 2026
A Georgia appellate panel threw out Thursday a contempt order entered against plaintiffs suing a host of chemical companies for toxic tort claims after they failed to pay a special master's legal fees, ruling that a trial court wrongly disregarded their protests that they couldn't afford his services.
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April 30, 2026
A 61-year-old passenger of a Delta Air Lines flight was injured when an electrical fire forced an airplane evacuation at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, according to a suit filed Thursday in Washington state court.
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April 30, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday denied a request by Spartan Securities and other defendants to reconsider an earlier ruling upholding a $1 million disgorgement award in a penny stock fraud case brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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April 30, 2026
The Center for Biological Diversity told the Eleventh Circuit on Thursday that there are still remedies to pursue if the appeals court revives its challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's approval of a road that contains radioactive phosphogypsum that has already been completed.
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April 30, 2026
Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern on Thursday submitted a revised application to federal rail regulators for their proposed $85 billion mega-merger, touting the efficiencies and cost-savings of their combined coast-to-coast rail network, while also seeking to quell competition concerns.
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April 30, 2026
A Georgia attorney on Wednesday urged a federal judge to undo a recent ruling declaring his professional liability insurer doesn't owe him coverage in an underlying lawsuit alleging the lawyer schemed with a client to enrich themselves, arguing the court erred by finding his alleged conduct didn't fall under the policy.
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April 30, 2026
Georgia Power urged a state appellate court Thursday to reverse a trial court's order letting Ford and Union Carbide out of a construction worker's cancer claims, arguing that under the state's 2025 tort reform law, their dismissal would unjustly leave the utility company to face the suit alone.
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April 30, 2026
A Georgia appellate panel told a lower court Thursday to revisit its denial of a school district's motion to toss a negligence suit from a mother who said her son suffered second-degree burns after his teacher gave him hot chocolate, saying the trial judge mishandled the dismissal bid.
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April 29, 2026
Black Georgia voters who allege that the state's elections for its public utilities board are racially gerrymandered asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn an Eleventh Circuit decision that, in killing their suit, represented a "sweeping and unprecedented change in Voting Rights Act enforcement," they said.
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April 29, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday backed a subrogation services provider's win over a former saleswoman's suit claiming she was fired because she was 69 and had lingering COVID-19 symptoms, finding no issue with a trial court's decision to toss the case.
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April 29, 2026
The Fulton County District Attorney's Office formally notified a Georgia trial court Wednesday that it is appealing a ruling that blocked the office from intervening in an attempt by President Donald Trump and others to recoup nearly $16 million in legal fees in a dismissed election interference case.
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April 29, 2026
Two former Fordham University basketball players will be permanently ineligible for NCAA competition following a sports-betting integrity investigation related to the federal charges prosecutors have lodged against more than two dozen people for allegedly conspiring to rig games, according to the NCAA.
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April 29, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced a Florida attorney will pay more than $26,000 to settle claims in Georgia federal court that he aided a million-dollar gold and diamond investment fraud scheme by receiving and disbursing investor funds and ignoring red flags.