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August 04, 2026
The Center for Food Safety and Wild Fish Conservancy have urged a Washington federal judge to reject Pacific Seafood's argument that the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation must be joined in their Clean Water Act suit over three Columbia River fish farms.
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August 04, 2026
The federal government and Enbridge Energy are looking to dismiss a challenge to a permit that allows 41 miles of pipeline to be rerouted around a Wisconsin tribe's lands, arguing that any attempts to find flaws in an environmental analysis for the plan are hasty and lack merit.
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August 04, 2026
The First Circuit urged a Massachusetts federal district court to promptly adjudicate the Trump administration's bid to dissolve an administrative stay delaying its revocation of temporary protected status for Somalia, noting there's a new administrative stay replacing the one on appeal.
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August 04, 2026
During his decades on the bench, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff has witnessed a slew of changes, particularly as technology has brought a rise in cybercrimes, as well as novel questions like whether AI-generated legal advice is privileged. But perhaps the biggest shift was in Rakoff's own views.
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August 04, 2026
An organization representing the cement industry has asked the D.C. Circuit to review the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's new technology review rule for hazardous waste combustors, alleging the regulation may run afoul of the Clean Air Act and the Administrative Procedure Act.
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August 04, 2026
Mexico and Japan are looking to heighten their coordination on trade matters in fields including energy and technology, the two governments said after a meeting of officials.
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August 04, 2026
In a split vote, American Bar Association House of Delegates members on Tuesday elected to uphold a rule requiring law schools to demonstrate DEI standards, but then followed up with a vote allowing another path to removing the standards, in an effort to avoid the Trump administration's threat to strip the ABA of accreditation authority.
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August 04, 2026
Imports of fatty acids from Indonesia into the U.S. appear to have surged in response to the opening of a countervailing duty investigation into the products, the U.S. Department of Commerce found Tuesday, setting up possible retroactive duties for some companies.
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August 04, 2026
The U.S. International Trade Commission affirmed U.S. businesses have been harmed by imported silicon metals arriving from Norway and Australia that are being sold at unfair prices, setting up duties orders from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
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August 03, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Monday partially revived a lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture over federal regulations restricting food companies from labeling products with information about difficult-to-digest sugars known as "FODMAPs."
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August 03, 2026
A Mexican national who says he lived in the United States for decades but was deported despite a valid advance parole document filed a lawsuit in D.C. federal court Sunday challenging immigration policies updated by the Trump administration that unraveled decades of policy toward immigrants seeking humanitarian protections.
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August 03, 2026
The executive director of Tennessee's Commission on Children and Youth testified Monday in the state's mental health trial against Meta that the percentage of high school students in the state who report feeling sad or hopeless has been trending upward in the last decade.
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August 03, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a Colorado federal court to pause deadlines in its appraisal discrimination case against Rocket Mortgage LLC, saying both sides agree there's a "reasonable prospect" for a settlement and want time to explore it further.
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August 03, 2026
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on Monday proposed loosening its rules governing how financial institutions can disclose confidential agency information, such as information about enforcement and examinations, to affiliates, service providers and potential acquirers.
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August 03, 2026
A coalition of 21 states sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in California federal court Friday, challenging an Affordable Care Act rule that shifts costs onto enrollees while reimposing certain provisions that a Maryland federal court vacated for being unlawful and arbitrary.
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August 03, 2026
Paramount Skydance Corp. battled over trial timing Friday as the Writers Guild of America and state attorneys general challenge its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery Inc., in a joint California federal court brief where the plaintiffs sought April 2027 proceedings and the companies proposed a November kickoff.
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August 03, 2026
New Haven, Connecticut, has asked a federal judge to lower the $38 million award that a jury ordered for a felony murder exoneree after finding that local police engaged in a widespread pattern of concealing evidence, arguing the city was improperly associated with a former detective of "low character" who is now the subject of a criminal referral.
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August 03, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission heard from lobbyists more than 170 times in July as they sought to sway the FCC on satellite licensing rules, an auction of C-band airwaves, rural healthcare aid, broadcast media ownership limits and more.
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August 03, 2026
California, Arizona and 23 other states sued the Trump administration in the U.S. Court of International Trade on Monday claiming the president is trying for a third time to impose illegal tariffs against nearly all the country's trading partners, this time under the cover of federal law meant to combat forced labor.
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August 03, 2026
Democratic senators led by Oregon's Jeff Merkley on Monday called on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to "rein in" prediction markets speculating on wildfires.
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August 03, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Interior on Monday announced new proposed changes to existing federal regulations on exploratory offshore drilling in the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf, as part of the Trump administration's broader push to "unleash American energy dominance."
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August 03, 2026
Michigan's legal sector can expect answers on several burning legal questions in the remainder of 2026, with major litigation over the Flint water crisis nearing an end, and the state's enforcement push against prediction market purveyors just getting started. Some of the biggest questions, however, will be answered not in court, but at the ballot box, where Michigan Supreme Court justices are up for election and a potential constitutional convention will be put to voters.
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August 03, 2026
A federal judge in Washington determined Monday that a Venezuelan national who was deported from the U.S. to a mega-prison in El Salvador last year must pursue tort claims against the federal government in the Southern District of Texas.
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August 03, 2026
A group of state enforcers challenged Paramount's planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, as a separate group of states and DirecTV accused Nexstar of violating an order preventing it from integrating with Tegna and the Federal Trade Commission faced a bench trial seeking to block a constructive adhesive deal.
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August 03, 2026
Vape companies challenging a Pennsylvania law that would make it illegal to sell most e-cigarettes are going to have to address rulings by the Fourth and Eighth Circuits, which largely upheld nearly identical state bans in North Carolina and Iowa, according to a federal judge.