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July 29, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission claimed two real estate investment trust executives raised $152 million in a fraudulent securities offering and misrepresented the company's bleak outlook in an extensive marketing campaign in Florida federal court Wednesday.
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July 29, 2026
A Pennsylvania appellate court says an Allegheny County trial judge properly denied a real estate developer's request for her to recuse herself from a property conservatorship case and that the judge's rulings were not affected by alleged bias from family connections to separate cases.
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July 29, 2026
A D.C. federal judge has allowed SpaceX and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to shift a dispute over their planned land swap to Texas, finding most significant aspects of the case are tied to the Lone Star State.
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July 29, 2026
A Third Circuit panel Wednesday revived a proposed class action accusing Atlantic City casino-hotels of illegally inflating room prices with software that allegedly shared private occupancy and pricing information among them.
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July 28, 2026
XAI and SpaceX urged a Mississippi federal court to throw out several claims in a proposed class action filed over allegedly intrusive noises coming out of a power plant the companies operate in a suburban neighborhood, saying the claims rest on "flawed legal theories" and don't warrant discovery.
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July 28, 2026
Actor Randy Quaid and his wife cannot overturn a $3.5 million judgment awarded to a California couple who bought a Santa Barbara property that once belonged to the Quaids, an appeals court ruled Tuesday, finding substantial evidence supporting claims that the Quaids' false ownership assertions damaged the property's marketability.
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July 28, 2026
A Texas federal judge on Tuesday denied a request to disqualify an attorney representing the former chief executive of a real estate company related to the late mogul Gene Phillips, saying the attempt to knock out the attorney came way too late in the game.
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July 28, 2026
A New Jersey state judge on Tuesday declined to dismiss Rider University's lawsuit alleging Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP's negligence caused it to forfeit a property worth $42 million, ruling from the bench that the school adequately alleged it relied on guidance from one of its attorneys.
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July 28, 2026
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit by a property owner that claimed Société Générale Financial Corp. wrongfully backed out of a planned $29 million loan to refinance a Washington building, ruling that the parties' signed term sheet was only a preliminary negotiating document and not a binding promise to lend.
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July 28, 2026
A Colorado Court of Appeals panel Tuesday largely sidestepped the underlying statutory questions in a mountain town's appeal over the dismissal of its case seeking condemnation of an easement over a concert series, instead pondering why they were being asked to rule on the appeal at all.
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July 28, 2026
Washington, D.C., argued in a federal lawsuit Monday that the Trump administration's plan to move the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's offices to Virginia is illegal, citing congressional direction and a 1790 law.
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July 28, 2026
Meta and BlackRock are teaming up to develop a $14 billion, 1-gigawatt data center campus in El Paso, Texas, with guidance from Latham, Eversheds Sutherland, Kirkland and Milbank, the companies announced Tuesday.
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July 28, 2026
Future Legends LLC, the owner of a sports complex in Colorado, has filed for Chapter 11 protection in California with $100 million to $500 million in liabilities following legal battles with a local government, its lenders and the second-division U.S. men's soccer league, according to court filings.
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July 28, 2026
A D.C. federal judge has trimmed a lawsuit contesting federal approvals for a wind farm off the New York and New Jersey coasts while preserving claims that the government wrongly allowed the project to harm migratory bottlenose dolphin populations.
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July 28, 2026
A California federal judge partially tossed a proposed class action challenging homeless camp sweeps conducted by California's Department of Transportation and local police working for San Diego County, the city of Santee and the city of Lakeside, but allowed many of the claims to proceed.
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July 28, 2026
A Pennsylvania appeals court panel held Tuesday that the Salvation Army was wrongly denied a real estate tax exemption for an outdoor retreat by the organization, saying that the entire property was operated in keeping with the group's charitable mission.
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July 28, 2026
A Washington federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit accusing Zillow of paying kickbacks to brokers that directed homebuyers to use the company's mortgage services, in a scheme that plaintiffs argued inflated the overall cost of home purchases and loans.
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July 27, 2026
The Connecticut town of Orange has dropped its Airbnb rental suit against a local property owner a few weeks ahead of the scheduled Aug. 20 trial, according to a recent court filing.
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July 27, 2026
Indigenous, environmental and preservation groups say a decision by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation to advance a proposed rulemaking notice for revisions to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act will weaken tribal nations' roles in ensuring that their sacred burial sites and ancestral lands are protected.
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July 27, 2026
Hayden Homes LLC and affordable housing-focused nonprofit lender First Story agreed to pay more than $1.6 million to settle Washington state's claims that they charged home sellers illegal private transfer fees, the state's attorney general announced Monday.
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July 27, 2026
An Idaho agribusiness is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to undo a Ninth Circuit decision that invalidated a U.S. Department of the Interior land transfer over tribal concerns of contamination from a planned fertilizer plant expansion, arguing the ruling undermines the country's food security, thousands of jobs and millions in economic activity.
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July 27, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court last week tackled disputes involving restrictive covenants, corporate governance, trade secrets, real estate investments, receiverships, and books and records demands.
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July 24, 2026
A Manhattan federal judge on Friday declined to sentence the former chief operating officer of a massive Arizona sports complex to prison over his role in a $284 million bond fraud scheme orchestrated by the project's developer and his son, citing the executive's prompt and significant cooperation with prosecutors.
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July 24, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney insights into forbearance negotiations, the latest real estate investment craze, and the ongoing challenges for Wall Street landlords in the Sun Belt.
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July 24, 2026
Two landlords are demanding their insurance company pay for needed repairs to their Los Angeles area property after a renter's illegal cannabis growing setup sparked a fire, according to a lawsuit filed in California state court, accusing the provider of wrongfully denying coverage for fire-related repairs by reclassifying them as tenant damage.