November 12, 2025
A Pennsylvania federal judge has sided with Pittsburgh against a nonprofit real estate trade association's suit challenging the constitutionality of the city's inclusionary zoning ordinances, ruling that the group's claims aren't ripe and that it lacks standing to bring the case.
October 27, 2025
The city of Pittsburgh argued Monday that a developer group can't retroactively add a member's project-specific subsidiary to a lawsuit just to shore up the group's standing to challenge the city's "inclusionary zoning" mandate for certain neighborhoods.
August 18, 2025
The city of Pittsburgh is urging a Pennsylvania federal court to reject a real estate trade association's bid to stop the city from enforcing an inclusionary zoning ordinance, arguing that the trade association is trying to block the ordinance on behalf of a private developer.
August 01, 2025
A Pittsburgh trade group has asked a Pennsylvania federal court to temporarily bar enforcement of a zoning ordinance mandating that large multifamily developments include affordable units, after the city's planning department demanded that a member comply with the ordinance.
June 15, 2023
Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to allow it to duck out of a trade association's suit challenging a Pittsburgh zoning ordinance, saying it hasn't been paid since February 2022.
April 04, 2023
A Pennsylvania federal judge is keeping two claims alive in a trade association's challenge to a Pittsburgh zoning ordinance aimed at increasing the city's supply of affordable housing, finding that the group does not need to claim its members had been directly harmed by the rule to level its lawsuit.
August 17, 2022
A coalition of Pittsburgh community organizations filed to intervene in a developers trade group's suit challenging the city's "inclusionary zoning ordinance," telling a Pennsylvania federal court the edict falls within states' broad power to regulate housing conditions.
August 15, 2022
The City of Pittsburgh urged a federal judge to throw out developers' challenge to an "inclusionary zoning ordinance" as unripe Monday, since no members of the Builders Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh had sought to build any projects that would be subject to the new rules.
August 02, 2022
While major cases proceeded in state courts — including the $1 billion Surfside condo collapse settlement in Florida and a rail yard contract dispute in Texas — federal courts had their hands full of construction-related litigation during the first half of 2022.
May 12, 2022
A group of developers and builders filed a federal lawsuit against Pittsburgh on Thursday, seeking to block a new "inclusionary zoning" ordinance that will require them to include units for low-income residents in certain large new housing developments.