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  • November 06, 2026

    Calif. Picks Atty With Overhaul Plans For New Insurance Chief

    California voters elected as their new insurance commissioner a former San Francisco supervisor who wants to overhaul the state's insurance system by establishing a state-run universal disaster insurance program that would guarantee coverage for wildfires and floods.

  • November 06, 2026

    Judge's Oregon Water Reservoir Ruling Faces 9th Circ. Appeal

    A city and county in Oregon have appealed to the Ninth Circuit a federal judge's decision refusing to block a water reservoir drawdown plan by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers designed to protect endangered salmon in the Willamette Valley System.

  • November 06, 2026

    Up Next At High Court: Pipeline Takings & H-2A Fines

    The U.S. Supreme Court will wrap up its November sitting by hearing disputes over whether federal or state law should control how much compensation landowners receive for private condemnations under the Natural Gas Act and if the U.S. Department of Labor can use in-house courts to issue civil penalties for violations of its temporary agricultural worker program. 

  • November 06, 2026

    Sea Bass Fishing Isn't Banned In So. Atlantic, 11th Circ. Told

    A seafood company asked the Eleventh Circuit on Friday to reverse the government's denial of a permit to import frozen sea bass caught in a region of the South Atlantic, arguing a federal agency embargoed the fish after wrongly concluding there was a total prohibition on commercial fishing there.

  • November 06, 2026

    NY Sues Former Air Force Manufacturing Site For Pollution

    New York Attorney General Letitia James sued the owner of an industrial site near Rochester, seeking compensation for the state's clean-up of hazardous substances stemming from the site's prior use in manufacturing B-52 bulkheads for the U.S. Air Force.

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