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April 24, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Interior and the Nebraska Public Power District have told a federal judge that conservation groups and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe cannot justify their bid to block construction of a 226-mile, 345-kilovolt electricity transmission line in central Nebraska.
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April 24, 2026
Shares of X-Energy, a developer of nuclear reactors and fuel technology, began trading Friday after the company raised $1 billion in an upsized initial public offering advised by Latham & Watkins LLP and Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP.
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April 24, 2026
The past week in London has seen a Hong Kong company sue the government and a COVID-19 PPE company linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone, an oligarch bring a fresh claim against a rival in a long-running feud, a rugby league club sue over a canceled mass dance event, and Visa and Mastercard hit with legal action from H&M, Eurostar, and Bang & Olufsen. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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April 23, 2026
A New Jersey state judge has handed a win to CBRE Inc. and two of its brokers in a Jersey City apartment development enterprise's suit alleging it was duped into a $19.5 million site deal, finding no reasonable jury could conclude the buyer justifiably relied on alleged misrepresentations about the number of units that could be built on the property.
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April 23, 2026
A court-ordered plan to crack down on nudity at a Seattle public beach is causing confusion, according to a filing from advocates, with private security guards wrongfully targeting topless beachgoers despite police and park rangers greenlighting bare chests.
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April 23, 2026
An Apache nonprofit amended its challenge to the federal government and Resolution Copper Co. over the exchange of nearly 2,500 acres within Arizona's Tonto National Forest, arguing the land transfer, which contains a sacred Indigenous worship site, was rushed in violation of religious freedom and constitutional laws.
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April 23, 2026
A group of Michigan real estate brokers and agents on April 23 said they would ask the Sixth Circuit to review a March decision rejecting the proposed antitrust class action over rules set by the National Association of Realtors and its local affiliates for accessing online home listing services.
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April 23, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice has asked a California federal court to allow the government to take possession of a Beverly Hills mansion alleged to have been purchased and then renovated with $30 million in illegally obtained and laundered funds.
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April 23, 2026
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said that bank loans to private equity, private credit and other nonbanks reached $1.4 trillion last year, identifying it as the fastest-growing category of lending for banks since the 2008 financial crisis.
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April 23, 2026
The Michigan Court of Appeals has reinstated a developer's suit over a failed deal with the city of Jackson to renovate a historic and long-vacant hotel, ruling that the trial court ignored an amended complaint when it granted summary disposition to the city.
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April 23, 2026
The Illinois General Assembly has approved a bill amended to provide more tax incentives for the site of a proposed stadium for the Chicago Bears, who are also considering a stadium offer from neighboring Indiana.
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April 23, 2026
Homebuyers in a proposed class action accusing real estate brokerages of conspiring to hike up their fees asked a Florida federal court to block the companies from settling similar antitrust claims in an Illinois lawsuit.
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April 23, 2026
The Ninth Circuit's rejection of a global agribusiness' efforts to reverse the invalidation of an Idaho federal land transfer drew the ire of seven Republican-appointed judges, who said in a dissent that the majority is blocking the government's administration of the property that was once owned by an Indigenous nation.
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April 23, 2026
A blank-check company targeting industries such as hospitality, technology and real estate to raise up to $100 million in an initial public offering advised by Loeb & Loeb LLP, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP and Ogier.
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April 23, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge on Thursday tossed a suit brought against the Ocean County Prosecutor's Office by two contractors alleging they were illegally targeted in a criminal investigation over a business rivalry with an assistant prosecutor, ruling that the suit's remaining claims are time-barred.
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April 23, 2026
A Baltimore attorney has pled guilty to a federal bank fraud charge in connection with a real estate scheme that involved fake fees on property purchases inflated to deceive lenders.
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April 22, 2026
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has moved to curtail enforcement of a decades-old federal fair lending statute, finalizing a rule that consumer advocates are condemning as an evisceration of antidiscrimination oversight.
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April 22, 2026
A New York federal judge on April 22 refused to toss a fraud suit accusing office-focused real estate investment trust SL Green Realty Corp. and several of its entities of conducting a fraudulent property transfer scheme in order to dodge a nearly $13 million judgment, ruling that allegations regarding the plaintiff's citizenship at the time it filed suit will have to be resolved later.
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April 22, 2026
A Florida federal judge said Tuesday he's "puzzled and disappointed" in counsel who appear "unprepared" on the eve of trial in a suit by children who blame their birth defects on Lockheed Martin's chemical handling practices at an Orlando defense system manufacturing and research facility.
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April 22, 2026
The Second Circuit on Wednesday pulled back from a holding that mortgages underlying a union pension fund's mortgage-backed securities investments that tanked during the financial crisis were plan assets under federal benefits law in a proposed class action that the appellate court revived in March against Wells Fargo and Ocwen.
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April 22, 2026
A national property management firm was hit with a proposed class action in Colorado federal court alleging that it charges tenants nearly $3 million in unauthorized fees annually for gas, common area electricity and pest control.
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April 22, 2026
A Texas bankruptcy judge said Wednesday he would sign off on the Chapter 11 plan outlined by Office Properties Income Trust, a real estate investment trust that owns and leases out office space nationwide, overruling objections to analyses backing the proposal.
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April 22, 2026
Stoel Rives LLP has hired a Seattle-based partner with a transactional practice advising on corporate, investment and real estate matters.
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April 22, 2026
Womble Bond Dickinson has hired a former White & Case LLP partner who specializes in real estate financing and private capital market deals for a partner role in its New York City office, the firm recently announced.
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April 22, 2026
The Tenth Circuit is allowing part of the Comanche Nation's challenge to the Fort Sill Apache Tribe's Oklahoma casino to continue, finding on Tuesday that the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act invalidates sovereign immunity in the dispute, while rejecting claims that the defense also applies to racketeering allegations against tribal officials in individual capacities.