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  • November 05, 2026

    Bike Group Backs Injunction Blocking DC Golf Course Plan

    A bicyclist advocacy group urged a D.C. federal judge to keep the Trump administration from cutting down more trees or taking other steps to develop a championship-style golf course at East Potomac Park while litigation over the allegedly unlawful project proceeds.

  • November 05, 2026

    IRS Asks 10th Circ. To Uphold Taxes, Penalties On Ranchers

    The U.S. Tax Court properly ruled that an Oklahoma couple owe roughly $260,000 in taxes and penalties because their ranch wasn't operated for profit as they had asserted, the IRS told the Tenth Circuit, saying they lacked a profit motive to claim deductions for their expenses.

  • November 05, 2026

    6 Ways RE Projects Can Balance Campus, Commercial Needs

    Recent mixed-use campus developments show that housing, research, hospitality, retail and recreation can share infrastructure and institutional identity while operating under diverse requirements, as long as the underlying agreement structures are carefully thought out and drafted, says Bob Burton at Winstead.

  • November 05, 2026

    FitLab Gets OK For $2.5M Ch. 11 Financing Draw

    A Delaware bankruptcy judge Thursday gave fitness business FitLab Inc. interim permission to take out $2.5 million in Chapter 11 financing after hearing the company will be seeking to sell off its assets.

  • November 04, 2026

    Fintechs Prepare For Blue Wave's Flood Of Investigations

    Democrats rode Tuesday night's blue wave to take control of both chambers of Congress, scuttling the legislative hopes of a crypto industry that's now battening down the hatches for a flood of investigations into its ties to the Trump administration, consumer protection and financial crime.

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