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June 05, 2026
A Georgia developer will pay a $1 million fine and help to repatriate Indigenous remains and artifacts after the United States alleged the company continued to build homes for a 2,230-acre development on a flood plain despite knowing about the presence of archaeological sites and cultural objects.
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June 05, 2026
A Washington federal judge Friday undid a $630 million settlement in a timeshare consumer class action, deeming it a "blank check" agreement based on unreliable damages estimates that the litigation parties reached without consideration for insurers that would likely have to cover the judgment.
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June 05, 2026
An Illinois federal judge rejected Zillow's attempt to force Compass and a Midwest multiple listing service to disclose their communications with each other, finding the request was "unduly burdensome."
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June 05, 2026
Alaska is asking a federal court to reject an environmental group and Indigenous villages' bid for a July 15 judgment in their challenge to a federal government decision to allow a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, saying a date for its construction has not yet been solidified.
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June 05, 2026
A Texas bankruptcy judge signed off Friday on retailer Saks Global's Chapter 11 plan, allowing the debtor to cut most of its existing debt and borrow $500 million in new money to support an effort to revitalize its business.
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June 05, 2026
Montgomery McCracken Walker & Rhoads LLP this week asked a New Jersey state court to dismiss malpractice claims against it and a firm attorney from Rider University stemming from a dispute over the school's ownership of a $42 million property.
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June 05, 2026
A pair of Connecticut property owners are suing Chevron Corp. in state court, claiming that it is responsible for pollution to their property after it allegedly abandoned and failed to properly clean oil tanks on a former petroleum storage terminal facility.
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June 05, 2026
A Virginia federal judge granted commercial real estate information company CoStar's request to pause a brokerage's proposed antitrust class action due to pending transfer motions.
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June 05, 2026
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. takes Taylor Morrison Home Corp. private, global real estate investment company Kennedy Wilson forms a residential joint venture with Netherlands pension services provider APG, and Wellington Management acquires Hartford Funds from insurer The Hartford.
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June 05, 2026
A global consortium led by TPG has agreed to purchase grocery-anchored Echo Realty in a transaction valued at about $2 billion, with plans to expand Echo's leasing and management business while growing acquisition initiatives, according to a Friday deal announcement.
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June 05, 2026
The past week in London has seen the U.K.'s oldest Indian restaurant launch an appeal against King Charles III's property company in an effort to stop its eviction, trustees of a bankrupt former EY tax partner file a claim against his wife, and 37 leading insurers bring a lawsuit against agrichemical company Syngenta over an insurance dispute. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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June 05, 2026
An AIG unit agreed to toss its dispute over coverage for a $6 million agreement and stipulated judgment between a stucco subcontractor and the owner of an apartment construction project in Arizona, according to a federal court filing.
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June 04, 2026
Two mining companies and the U.S. Forest Service have asked a Minnesota federal court to throw out the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians' lawsuit over a land exchange related to an open-pit copper-nickel mine project.
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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.