The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday wiped out a federal district judge's order restoring 32 congressionally funded grants frozen by the Trump administration, saying it's a contractual matter for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to decide.
The Fourth Circuit on Wednesday wiped out a federal district judge's order restoring 32 congressionally funded grants frozen by the Trump administration, saying it's a contractual matter for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims to decide.
The Trump administration and Florida's emergency management agency have urged the Eleventh Circuit to not supplement the appellate record with their communications on federal funding relating to the new immigration detention facility in the Everglades, arguing the documents are immaterial.
Massachusetts' Department of Revenue owes a Boston Seaport developer a $15.3 million brownfields tax credit, a state judge said, finding that the tax agency was not entitled to second-guess the extent and cost of environmental remediation at the site to justify a smaller amount.
Alaska would cap the amount by which a local assessor could increase the assessed value of real property from its previous assessment under a bill introduced in the state House of Representatives.
The federal government is asking the Tenth Circuit to deny the Ute Tribe's appeal to overturn a lower court's denial of its intervention to challenge a $16 million Clean Air Act consent decree, arguing that the Utah Indigenous nation can't identify any cognizable injury.
A proposed class of businesses is asking a California federal court to give the go-ahead on a $436 million settlement with Toyota Industries Corp. and its material handling affiliates in a suit that alleged the company misled them on their forklift and construction engine emissions.
The Eleventh Circuit has denied a Florida law firm's bid to shield documents related to the recruitment of over 1,000 Peruvian plaintiffs in a lead exposure action, with the panel agreeing with a lower court judge that the firm had not demonstrated that the documents are protected by attorney-client privilege.
The Delaware Chancery Court on Wednesday declined to rule immediately on a request to hold a solar roofing company in contempt for defying a court order, instead pausing the case to give the company time to hire Delaware counsel, a prerequisite to allowing the company to be heard on the merits.
Two former employees of a company owned by Huntington Ingalls Industries and BWX Technologies that was tapped for a $2.1 billion contamination cleanup contract at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico have alleged in federal court they were unlawfully terminated after raising concerns about safety, employment and billing practices.
Three tribal nations are fighting a motion by Oklahoma to dismiss their challenge that looks to block the prosecution of Native Americans for hunting and fishing on tribal lands, telling the court that the state's Ex parte Young doctrine arguments are "not colorable."
A law firm urged a Louisiana federal court Wednesday to toss a proposed class action over an alleged scheme to collect exorbitant fees on hurricane-related property insurance claims, saying the complaint fails to plead a certifiable class and involves a "smorgasbord" of individualized legal malpractice claims.
The Tenth Circuit's recent directive to the parties litigating Denver Water's expansion of the Gross Reservoir and Dam to mediate their dispute is a reminder that mediation in environmental matters can save time and money, and achieve a settlement that helps both sides reach their goals, says Heidi Friedman at Thompson Hine.
Rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence test work-product principles first articulated in the U.S. Supreme Court’s nearly 80-year-old Hickman v. Taylor decision, as courts and ethics bodies confront whether disclosure of attorneys’ AI prompts and outputs would reveal their thought processes, say Larry Silver and Sasha Burton at Langsam Stevens.
Public interest groups are handling a majority of the lawsuits filed against the second Trump administration, while most large firms remain on the sidelines, according to a review by Law360 of more than 400 lawsuits filed in the first year of Trump's second term.
Ballard Partners more than quadrupled its annual federal lobbying revenue in 2025 amid President Donald Trump's return to office, surpassing the law firm policy practices that have led K Street in recent years.
Former Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar has joined the legal team representing Jenner & Block LLP in its fight with President Donald Trump's administration over his executive order targeting the BigLaw firm, according to a new court filing.
A former employee at Thomas Goldstein's law firm recounted in court Wednesday that a U.S. Internal Revenue Service levy was placed on the SCOTUSblog founder's accounts, while a lawyer at another firm said Goldstein dodged repaying him for money invested in his poker-playing exploits.
A U.S. Department of Justice official explained the parameters of the new role of assistant attorney general for fraud in a recent letter to Congress, obtained Wednesday by Law360, but did not mention the individual will be overseen by the White House, as the vice president previously said.
The New York City Assigned Counsel Plan, which provides lawyers to indigent people in criminal and family courts who can't be served by institutional legal service providers, is "in a state of crisis," a New York City Bar task force said in an interim report released Wednesday.
The Seventh Circuit offered guidance to litigants using artificial intelligence while representing themselves in a ruling remanding a pro se plaintiff's civil rights case Wednesday, saying that AI has "great promise" for those who can't afford legal counsel, but that it doesn't abdicate them of their duty to avoid misrepresentations in court filings.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday appeared reluctant to let President Donald Trump immediately oust Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook, with multiple justices expressing doubts about administration claims of broad presidential removal power over the central bank.
