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August 26, 2026
Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook told the White House on Wednesday that President Donald Trump lacks a legally valid reason to fire her, arguing that previous mortgage fraud allegations leveled against her are untrue and would not justify removal.
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August 26, 2026
A former chief of staff to ex-New York Mayor Eric Adams told a federal judge Tuesday that prosecutors' claims that a hotel owner secured a $6.8 million migrant housing contract by papering City Hall with bribes is woefully short on detail, and the government should be ordered to flesh it out.
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August 26, 2026
The Center for Biological Diversity, Snake River Waterkeeper and ManaSota-88 Inc. urged Congress on Wednesday to remove a provision from the National Defense Authorization Act that the center says would "cede historic lands of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes in Idaho to expand a radioactive waste dump at one of the country's largest Superfund sites."
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August 26, 2026
A fast-cash funder has sued the now-bankrupt brothers who ran their summer camp empire into the dirt for guaranteeing nearly $6.4 million of loans earlier this year, alleging they were already insolvent and had no intent to repay the funds.
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August 26, 2026
The Muscogee (Creek) Nation has told the Tenth Circuit that Oklahoma's Tulsa County district attorney gets it wrong in stating that he has the authority to prosecute nonmember Native Americans for nonmajor crimes committed on the federally recognized tribe's reservation.
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August 26, 2026
Customers of Academy Mortgage Corp. have urged a Utah federal judge to grant the first OK to a nearly $2 million settlement they reached with the lender to resolve claims tied to a 2023 data breach.
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August 26, 2026
As practitioners scrambled to meet deadlines to settle clients' disputes over conservation easement tax deductions, the IRS made a surprise announcement this month that it would establish an office to solely focus on such cases. Here, Law360 looks at how four factors will affect whether the IRS achieves its stated plans for the office.
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August 26, 2026
A New Mexico church argued that the federal government's eminent domain powers are not designed to override protections for religious expression, objecting to a plan that would seize part of a pilgrimage site to build a border wall.
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August 26, 2026
A property owner revived claims in South Carolina federal court that a group of companies cleared a site for development under the guise of a logging operation to avoid installing sediment and stormwater management systems, all while the city of Greer, South Carolina, failed to enforce any regulations at the property.
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August 26, 2026
A residential developer based in Denver has accused utility Public Service Co. of Colorado in state court of causing its business more than $25 million in damages after repeatedly failing to provide electrical power for the developer's projects.
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August 26, 2026
A Florida state appeals court on Wednesday reversed an order dismissing a lawsuit brought by a property company alleging that Hoffman Larin & Agnetti PA and one of its attorneys aided and abetted a breach of fiduciary duty while representing a third party claiming an interest in a property owned by the company.
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August 26, 2026
Hogan Lovells Cadwalader's corporate and finance partner Elizabeth L. Banks has advised on major deals, such as multifamily real estate investment trust Elme Communities' $1.6 billion sale of a 19-property portfolio, and retail-focused REIT Kite Realty Group Trust's $1 billion senior notes offerings, which earned her a spot among the real estate lawyers under age 40 honored by Law360 as Rising Stars.
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August 26, 2026
An Allstate unit can't shake a claim that it acted in bad faith by denying a homeowner's fire damage claim, but need not face a claim that its conduct was grossly negligent and put the homeowner at risk of foreclosure, a Mississippi federal court ruled.
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August 25, 2026
A divided Ninth Circuit panel Tuesday mostly upheld an injunction blocking the Trump administration from imposing new grant restrictions on transportation and housing funding for dozens of local governments, concluding federal agencies likely overstepped their authority by barring the money from being used to promote "gender ideology" or "illegal immigration."
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August 25, 2026
A California-based company that builds and operates private luxury airport terminals is appealing the dismissal of its suit in a District of Columbia federal court against the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which was accused of deliberately trying to avoid awarding the company airport terminal construction contracts.
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August 25, 2026
A Massachusetts dispensary is urging a federal court to rule that cannabis giant Jushi Holdings and others violated antitrust law by using a $10 million merger provision designed to block the dispensary from opening a nearby store, causing it to ultimately crumble.
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August 25, 2026
The U.S. Department of Commerce is looking to exit a Lummi Nation lawsuit claiming broadband construction disturbed ancestral remains, saying a Washington federal court lacks jurisdiction over the Native American tribe's suit because the department has not yet taken any final agency action.
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August 25, 2026
Federal prosecutors said Tuesday that 26 summer camps illegally reaped more than $13 million from a COVID-19 relief program after one of their now-bankrupt owners allegedly "repeatedly lied" on loan documents.
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August 25, 2026
Georgia's highest court questioned Tuesday whether precedent supported a hotel operator's push to unravel a $17.4 million attorney fee award that came on top of $21 million in damages won by a teenager who was assaulted at one of the company's inns.
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August 25, 2026
The developer of a luxury hotel in Aspen, Colorado, claimed that the project's architecture firm caused more than $10 million in damages by making a series of errors and omissions in its work, according to a complaint filed Monday in Colorado state court.
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August 25, 2026
Humboldt County, California, has agreed to settle a lawsuit with a group of landowners who complained authorities overstepped their powers in an effort to punish allegedly illegal cannabis grow operations, following a Ninth Circuit ruling in 2025 against the county.
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August 25, 2026
The U.K. can levy £5.4 million ($7.4 million) in taxes on an Isle of Man developer's profits from selling land in Kent, the Upper Tribunal said Tuesday in a case that could allow HM Revenue & Customs to avoid issuing more than £1 billion in refunds.
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August 25, 2026
Emerald AI, a company developing software to reduce or change power usage of AI data centers while electric grids are under stress, said Tuesday that it raised $150 million in a funding round valuing the company at $1.05 billion.
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August 25, 2026
An Oklahoma federal judge has refused to toss an insurer's malpractice suit against a law firm over a $92 million judgment in a dispute over apartment fire coverage.
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August 25, 2026
A Tennessee federal judge has instructed a settlement administrator in the rent price-fixing litigation against RealPage and others to send out new notices informing eligible class members they have not been left out of deals worth more than $359 million, finding counsel representing intervenors in the case may have wrongfully told parties they've been excluded.