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June 16, 2026
A Manhattan federal judge sentenced a California fraudster to 13 years in prison Tuesday for impersonating prosecutors and a law firm as he defrauded a New York City architectural business, capping a 20-year career of "duplicity, theft and dishonesty."
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June 15, 2026
With a limited number of major professional sports teams for sale and astronomical valuations leaving a high barrier to entry, experts say college sports and emerging leagues are providing opportunities for private investment, and the rapidly shifting rules are creating compliance challenges for attorneys.
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June 15, 2026
A New Mexico federal judge on Monday approved the federal government's bid to deposit funds as part of its action to take land owned by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces to construct border barriers and other security measures.
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June 15, 2026
An insurer has settled a suit seeking to avoid covering a commercial real estate firm and its former director against a $6.5 million claim related to the sale of a client's properties based on misrepresentations made in an errors and omissions policy application.
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June 15, 2026
The 2002 title transfer of a Washington, D.C., property resulting from the merger of a partnership and a limited liability company was subject to the district's real estate recordation and transfer taxes, an appeals court ruled, affirming a $6 million assessment.
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June 15, 2026
Rose Kallor LLP should be barred from representing a Connecticut housing authority and a related nonprofit because one of its lawyers testified as a corporate representative during a deposition, and another lawyer asked questions that sounded like testimony, the entities' former executive director told a state judge Monday.
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June 15, 2026
The Second Circuit rejected a request for rehearing by Wells Fargo and Ocwen, which asked the court to reconsider its decision to revive a federal benefits lawsuit accusing them of mishandling home loans tied to union employee pension fund investments.
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June 15, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled disputes involving shareholder voting rights, take-private transactions, merger disclosures, board control battles and investor litigation, while the Delaware Supreme Court heard arguments over the wind-down of an oil-and-gas investment fund.
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June 15, 2026
Simry Realty Corp., a company controlled by the Haruvi family that co-owns several apartment buildings in Manhattan, has filed for Chapter 11 protection in New York with up to $100 million in debt, saying a dispute with the daughter of developer Arthur Haruvi has blocked its reorganization and threatened its properties.
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June 15, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday that it won't decide if companies can run a credit report before the potential customer initiates a transaction, denying the review bid by a woman who claimed a solar panel scam had saddled her with $100,000 in debt.
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June 12, 2026
President Donald Trump's newest pick for Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director has spent years sketching out a conservative vision for the agency that he could soon run, one that emphasizes minimalist rules, legal restraint and administrative procedure.
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June 12, 2026
The Texas Supreme Court on Friday sided with a company seeking to repurchase land that the state condemned for a highway project but was no longer using, saying in a split opinion that the state isn't immune from claims to repurchase unused property.
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June 12, 2026
The D.C. Attorney General's Office reached $1.4 million in settlements on Friday with Avenue5 Residential LLC and Bell Partners for claims that they used RealPage's software to inflate rental rates.
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June 12, 2026
A development company that sought to revive a 38-acre Detroit hospital campus and transform it into a $148 million commerce and innovation hub has filed a complaint in Michigan bankruptcy court claiming the city of Detroit and the Detroit Land Bank Authority are unlawfully obstructing the project and trying to reclaim the parcel for political reasons.
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June 12, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney insights into deal-side innovation, real estate investment trusts for digital infrastructure and New York's scrutiny of the $1.6 billion Compass-Anywhere merger.
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June 12, 2026
A New Jersey federal magistrate judge on Friday adjourned an initial scheduling conference in the state's rent price‑fixing lawsuit against RealPage Inc. and a dozen multifamily landlords, warning the parties that they must show a good-faith effort to narrow their differences.
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June 12, 2026
Trying to move forward Virginia's budget, which has been snarled for weeks amid an intraparty fight over continuing tax breaks for data centers, state House Democrats proposed what they called a compromise plan Friday that would create a commission to study the centers.
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June 12, 2026
Indigenous rights and environmental groups say the U.S. Senate's failure to act on a resolution to nullify a conservation resource plan for Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument prevented a significant escalation in federal lawmakers' use of the Congressional Review Act, which would have led to "chaos on the ground."
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June 12, 2026
Commercial real estate information company CoStar asked an Illinois federal court to let it fight Zillow's preliminary injunction bid in the property listing giant's antitrust suit against Compass and others, arguing that it can combat claims about anticompetitive collusion.
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June 12, 2026
A Colorado architecture firm is accused of causing a nearly $4.8 million increase in the cost of constructing a residential housing development in Bozeman, Montana, in a complaint filed in Colorado state court.
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June 12, 2026
A property management company has been hit with another lawsuit in New Jersey federal court accusing it of discriminating against prospective tenants based on immigration status, this time from two Egyptian immigrants who said they have valid work authorization.
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June 12, 2026
Three families who accused Lockheed Martin of causing their children's birth defects told a Florida federal court Thursday that they are appealing a May jury verdict in favor of the defense giant to the Eleventh Circuit.
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June 12, 2026
The past week in London has seen the FCA bring a claim against a fund manager it accused of providing investment services despite having been banned, an Ardmore unit sue a contractor two days before the construction group's collapse, and shipping and cruise giant MSC hit back at an entertainment company following separate intellectual property litigation in the U.S. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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June 11, 2026
An Illinois state appellate panel vacated a jury's $7 million award for a Wendy's customer who was injured by a Chicago Housing Authority security guard during a shooting pursuit, saying the agency didn't owe the customer a legal duty to ensure its security contractor was hiring sufficiently experienced guards.
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June 11, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission asked a Florida federal court on Wednesday to unseal reports by a court-appointed monitor of a private equity firm accused of defrauding investors in a $1 billion fund, arguing that the firm is abusing a sealing order to hide information from investors.