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May 01, 2026
The U.S. Department of Commerce has opened an investigation into whether imported carbon and steel alloy wire rod manufactured in Algeria and imported to the U.S. is being subsidized.
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May 01, 2026
A Hartford insurance specialty unit had a duty to defend a building contractor against an underlying suit over a data center's construction even after defamation claims were dropped, a California federal judge ruled, finding that existing claims could have exposed the contractor to additional defamation allegations.
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May 01, 2026
An industrial equipment supplier accused of providing defective compressed air piping materials for the construction of a facility owned by Nestle told a North Carolina federal court that two Travelers units must defend and indemnify it in connection with the underlying claim.
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May 01, 2026
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell has sued another town in state court to force compliance with a policy requiring multifamily zoning near transit stops after filing a similar action against a group of nine local governments earlier this year.
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May 01, 2026
Former Connecticut budget official Konstantinos Diamantis will be sentenced in a school construction bribery case before being tried on bribery charges involving a healthcare audit, a federal judge has ruled.
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May 01, 2026
The past week in London has seen a Swiss energy trader bring a Financial List claim against shipping benchmarking company Baltic Exchange, law firm Slater and Gordon sued by a former client, Slack and Salesforce hit Microsoft with an antitrust claim, and Stephen Fry bring a personal injury claim after he broke bones falling off a stage. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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April 30, 2026
Verizon is fighting back after a North Carolina federal judge declared that the lease for land a cell tower was constructed on is invalid, laying down a set of counterclaims accusing the landowner of using it to build up the site before canceling the lease.
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April 30, 2026
The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday said the estate of an oil refinery maintenance worker cannot bring certain construction-related claims against an insulation company over his asbestos exposure, yet it can still bring claims over the company's role as a seller of asbestos-containing products.
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April 30, 2026
Despite a partial dissent from the Federal Communications Commission's lone Democrat, the agency Thursday morning voted to approve a much-criticized plan to create a portal that consolidates bids for the E-rate program into one place.
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April 30, 2026
President Donald Trump issued an executive order Thursday making fixed-price contracts the default for federal contracting, as a part of an effort to tackle "unpredictable costs, bloated overhead, and weak performance incentives," which the president attributed to cost-reimbursement contracts.
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April 30, 2026
A Pennsylvania university that was charged by a borough for stormwater management services doesn't owe the amount assessed because the charges constitute a tax that the university is exempt from paying, the state's Supreme Court affirmed Thursday.
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April 30, 2026
Local governments can charge impact fees on new development projects as a condition of issuing a development permit, including on projects other than the development of a raw parcel of land, the Colorado Court of Appeals held Thursday.
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April 30, 2026
A painting company that defeated litigation claiming it owed a union pension fund $427,000 can't make the fund cover its roughly $350,000 in legal fees, a New Jersey federal judge ruled, saying the company could only clinch fee coverage if the fund acted unreasonably, which it didn't.
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April 30, 2026
An excess insurer has agreed to drop a Texas federal case seeking to avoid defending a petrochemical contractor from property damage and bodily injury lawsuits stemming from a pipeline explosion in Arkansas, as the underlying disputes were resolved.
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April 30, 2026
Georgia Power urged a state appellate court Thursday to reverse a trial court's order letting Ford and Union Carbide out of a construction worker's cancer claims, arguing that under the state's 2025 tort reform law, their dismissal would unjustly leave the utility company to face the suit alone.
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April 30, 2026
The European Union's interim trade agreement with four countries in the South American regional bloc known as Mercosur will begin to apply on a provisional basis Friday, according to news releases issued by the European Commission and members of European Parliament on Thursday.
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April 29, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission has its eye on the National Broadband Map, with plans to vote next month on launching a proceeding to explore how to cut red tape from the data collection process while also increasing the accuracy of the data being collected.
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April 29, 2026
A Mexico City firm has urged a New York federal court to enforce a roughly $25 million arbitral award it won against the Mexican state-owned utility, Comision Federal de Electricidad, following the failure of a power plant construction project in the state of Sonora.
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April 29, 2026
A developer battling holdout unit owners of a Miami waterfront condominium told a Florida judge Wednesday that it would cost $61 million to bring the building back to the state it was in when the developer took over the condominium association, which has no way to raise that amount of money.
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April 29, 2026
The Kennedy Center's new director said he was "dumbfounded" when he first saw the true condition of the cultural hub's facilities, telling a D.C. federal court weighing whether to stop the center's planned two-year closure that now is the right time to catch up on a growing backlog of work.
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April 29, 2026
A Florida state appellate panel disqualified a trial judge overseeing a suit accusing a Miami college of transferring land for a President Donald Trump library without proper notice, agreeing Wednesday that the judge's thanking and hugging the man who brought the suit was improper.
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April 29, 2026
Lummi Nation says the remains of its ancestors have been disturbed by a federally funded broadband project in what it calls a "cascading series of preventable and unlawful failures" in a lawsuit against the federal government, a telecommunications company and a county in Washington.
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April 29, 2026
The U.S. Department of Commerce correctly applied an over 183% antidumping duty margin on Chinese producers of hardwood plywood, a Federal Circuit panel ruled Wednesday, reversing U.S. International Trade Court orders that resulted in a zeroing out of the duty rate.
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April 29, 2026
Atkore Inc. has struck two deals to end claims against it in sprawling litigation accusing polyvinyl chloride pipe producers of conspiring to fix prices, agreeing to pay $72.5 million to a class of direct purchasers and another $64 million to another class of buyers.
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April 29, 2026
The maker of Little Debbie snacks has filed a federal complaint arguing that Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. must make good on construction bonds and cover millions of dollars in damages and legal expenses stemming from a construction company's failure to finish work on a plant in Tennessee.