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October 07, 2026
An Eighth Circuit panel has upheld a lower court's award of more than $35,000 in costs to Morton County, North Dakota, and its officials in a challenge by an environmentalist who was severely injured by law enforcement during a protest over the Dakota Access pipeline.
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October 07, 2026
A Tennessee federal judge has tossed a data center developer's challenge to a moratorium on data centers without prejudice, ruling in part that the suit is inconsistent when it comes to the type of property interest that the developer is asserting with its allegations.
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October 07, 2026
The U.S. and 14 trading partners, including some that are subject to a pending and related tariff investigation, have pledged to address global excess manufacturing production and capacity across key sectors, according to a statement published Wednesday by the U.S. Trade Representative.
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October 07, 2026
A Washington federal judge held KPSI Innovations Inc. and three executives in contempt after a rival litigant complained that they'd continued to sell fire-resistant construction assembly products after being enjoined from doing so.
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October 07, 2026
Brayman Construction Corp. hit a joint venture awarded an $819 million design-build contract for the Potomac River Tunnel project with a breach of contract suit seeking more than $5.7 million in damages and a declaration excusing it from continued work.
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October 07, 2026
Three attorneys defended the errors they made in a brief to the U.S. Court of International Trade as simple mistakes and not the product of artificial intelligence hallucinations, arguing they shouldn't be subject to sanctions.
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October 06, 2026
The U.S. Department of Defense is appealing a Massachusetts federal court's decision awarding attorney fees to an academic organization that helped successfully argue that the department's cap on reimbursing indirect costs from universities' grant-funded research was unlawful.
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October 06, 2026
The insurer Travelers has urged a California federal court to dismiss a case alleging it improperly denied coverage to a tile and slab distributor for more than 450 personal injury and wrongful death suits, saying the policies bar coverage for injuries related to the underlying toxin exposure allegations.
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October 06, 2026
The developer of a tiny home community just outside a Colorado mountain town has told a federal judge that the town refuses to process the community's wastewater and won't issue new tap permits to new properties despite approving more than a dozen prior to the dispute.
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October 06, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge rejected a painting company's challenge to a magistrate judge's ruling that denied its bid for a union pension fund to cover roughly $350,000 in legal fees, finding that the magistrate judge applied the correct legal standard in his findings.
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October 06, 2026
The Tohono O'odham Nation is asking the D.C. Circuit for an emergency injunction pending appeal to block construction of a border wall on its Arizona reservation, telling the appellate court that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security intends to start construction as early as Monday.
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October 06, 2026
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on Tuesday announced the continuation of tariffs on some $50 billion worth of Chinese goods installed during President Donald Trump's first term after domestic businesses requested they be extended.
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October 06, 2026
The U.S. Court of International Trade has nationwide jurisdiction over matters involving trade laws, which should give it authority to order tariff refunds for importers that paid the unlawful duties whether or not they filed their own challenge at the trade court, businesses told the Federal Circuit.
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October 06, 2026
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to temporarily allow road vehicles to use dyed diesel fuel that is typically used by off-road vehicles and to defer applicable federal excise taxes, the White House said.
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October 06, 2026
An immigrant investor regional center in Florida and a company seeking to raise funds for a planned medical school in Naples, Florida, sued U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, claiming a delay in approval from the government is jeopardizing funding for the $82 million project.
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October 05, 2026
An Illinois federal judge has given her final blessing to more than $200 million in settlements consumers have struck in their antitrust suit accusing major polyvinyl chloride pipe producers of participating in an illegal price-fixing conspiracy, teeing the rest of the case up for the evidence-gathering phase of litigation.
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October 05, 2026
A D.C. Circuit panel on Monday denied youth plaintiffs' request to stay the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's repeal of a landmark finding that greenhouse gas pollution endangers people's health while they pursue a legal challenge.
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October 05, 2026
Two West Palm Beach neighborhood groups are arguing to a Florida state appeals court that city officials advanced an 18-story Related Ross convention center and hotel project while ignoring concerns that the project's valet operations could pose a risk to pedestrians, among other issues in the approval process.
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October 05, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday vacated a Second Circuit decision dismissing the sentencing appeal of a man who pled guilty to a role in a murder-for-hire plot, telling the circuit court to take another look in light of the high court's new miscarriage-of-justice exception for criminal appeal waivers.
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October 05, 2026
The Group of 20 nations failed to reach a consensus on a statement highlighting the need to eliminate imports of goods created with forced labor, with solely the U.S., Argentina and Mexico backing a document calling forced labor both a human rights and economic threat.
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October 05, 2026
A landowner has alleged in state court that the city of Waltham, Massachusetts, granted BXP Inc. a valuable mixed-use rezoning while denying the neighboring plaintiff's request for the same housing-focused land designation without any explanation.
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October 05, 2026
SpaceX and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are urging a Texas federal court to toss a lawsuit challenging their South Texas land swap deal, each noting the wildlife refuge land at issue is already generally closed to the public.
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October 05, 2026
A Tokio Marine unit accused of misrepresenting the terms of its policy has slipped a roofing contractor's negligence claims in a $4.6 million coverage dispute over a school renovation project but must face a claim that it intentionally misrepresented coverage, a Connecticut state court ruled.
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October 05, 2026
Conservation groups and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe are asking a district court to decide a Nebraska utility's motion to lift a partial block on the approval of its 226-mile, 345-kilovolt electricity transmission line before construction starts, arguing that the federal government again ignored important aspects of the problem.
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October 05, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a trio of petitions concerning patent and trade secret litigation, declining to review questions about damages apportionment and patent eligibility.