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June 04, 2026
Exxon Mobil must pay nearly $580,000 in legal fees and costs after a Washington federal judge found the oil giant partially on the hook for the cleanup of a Seattle gas station, awarding half the station owner's requested amount based on its "limited success" at trial.
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June 04, 2026
Real estate developer Forestar Group Inc. and its directors urged the Delaware Chancery Court on June 4 to toss a shareholder suit accusing home builder D.R. Horton Inc. of using its control of Forestar to obtain residential lots at below-market prices, arguing the pension fund behind the case skipped a required step before suing.
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June 04, 2026
A real estate acquisition company told a Michigan federal court Thursday that its title insurer owes nearly $6.4 million for a deal that resolved a dispute over ownership of property along the Detroit River where foundations for the Ambassador Bridge to Canada are located.
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June 04, 2026
New York state has launched an antitrust investigation into Compass Inc. after the country's biggest real estate brokerage announced last year that it would acquire Anywhere Real Estate, the second-largest brokerage, in a $1.6 billion deal.
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June 04, 2026
Zillow told an Illinois federal court that real estate brokerage Compass and a Chicago-area multiple listing service are refusing to document their communications with each other, even though they're accused of conspiring to block listings on Zillow's platform.
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June 04, 2026
A former Newark deputy mayor was sentenced to just over a year in prison in New Jersey federal court for accepting cash and luxury gifts from two real estate developers involved in redevelopment projects for city-owned properties.
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June 04, 2026
A California federal judge dismissed, for now, a lawsuit by a developer seeking to build a multifamily housing project near Santa Barbara's Old Mission over a new state law that allegedly singled out the project for additional environmental review, while acknowledging Tuesday there are "serious constitutional questions raised here."
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June 04, 2026
The clerk of a Michigan city intentionally sabotaged a plan to revitalize a deserted shopping center to prevent cannabis businesses from operating there, a real estate company told a Sixth Circuit panel Thursday in hopes of reviving its suit over the delays and setbacks.
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June 04, 2026
Two former sales directors for a real estate brokerage must stop recruiting former coworkers for a rival company that hired them, North Carolina's business court has said, finding the new employer should also be barred from meddling with more of the brokerage's employment contracts.
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June 04, 2026
The Yurok Tribe is asking a California district court to block the city of Trinidad from asserting jurisdiction over matters affecting an Indigenous village site, arguing that the city exceeded its authority in appointing another tribe to oversee its protection.
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June 04, 2026
Under new release-based cleanup regulations that took effect March 1, Connecticut now requires pollution to be reported and remediated when it is found, not when property changes hands, a shift lawyers say expands reporting requirements and accelerates cleanup timelines.
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June 04, 2026
A California federal judge refused to allow Navigators Specialty Insurance Co. to file a reconsideration motion for a prior ruling that dismissed the insurer's claims in its coverage suit against a client company taken into arbitration over a California data center project.
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June 04, 2026
The New York state trial court judge overseeing President Donald Trump's civil fraud case granted his request to preserve notes from private meetings between state litigators and Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen after the key witness said he felt "pressured" to testify.
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June 04, 2026
Colorado will change processes related to delinquent mobile home property taxes under legislation signed by Gov. Jared Polis but will not boost the exemption for mobile homes as proposed in the original version of the bill.
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June 03, 2026
Facing sanctions for allegedly frivolous litigation in New York state court, Brooklyn political powerbroker Frank Seddio testified Wednesday that his federally-charged client made numerous court filings under his name.
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June 03, 2026
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP launched a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in Washington federal court on Tuesday claiming the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wrongfully withheld information about possible consumer protection law violations by Veterans United, a mortgage lender targeted in a proposed class action led by the law firm.
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June 03, 2026
A North Dakota federal judge granted the government an early win in a Colorado energy company's bid for the court to vacate a series of Bureau of Indian Affairs decisions that found it didn't own interest in an oil lease, upholding the agency's decision that the company lacked standing.
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June 03, 2026
Iowa nuclear energy facilities that are beginning or restarting operation are eligible for a sales tax exemption on purchases of materials under a law signed by the governor.
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June 03, 2026
Cooley LLP announced Wednesday that it has hired a pair of Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorneys who the firm says strengthen its ability to guide clients through the full life cycle of infrastructure investments.
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June 03, 2026
Oklahoma's governor pocket vetoed a bill that would have excluded solar power companies and battery energy storage systems from a property tax exemption for manufacturing facilities.
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June 03, 2026
A Texan who led an $8.5 million tax scheme involving trusts was sentenced to more than seven years in prison, making him the last defendant to be sentenced in a family-run operation, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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June 03, 2026
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced what it is calling a government-to-government mechanism that will manage bilateral trade between the U.S. and China, including by considering tariff cuts, and asked for public comments on the program's development.
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June 02, 2026
Counsel for two certified classes of residents and homeowners told a North Carolina state appeals court Tuesday that they should be handed a new jury trial, as a county neglected state statute when it extracted millions of dollars in impact fees from local families without a clear plan on how to spend those funds.
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June 02, 2026
Florida-based law firm Lowndes has established a new group that focuses on "the transactional and regulatory matters that shape residential development," the firm announced Tuesday.
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June 02, 2026
Longtime political powerbroker Frank Seddio took the stand in New York state court on Tuesday as he faces sanctions for allegedly blocking the recovery of $2 million in escrow money, allegedly stolen as part of a wide-ranging embezzlement scheme linked to the arrest of his client and a former Brooklyn state judge.