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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 million Company-Anywhere merger.
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June 12, 2026
The estate of one of three people killed in the August Florida Turnpike collision that became a flash point for the Trump administration's crackdown on foreign commercial truckers has sued the driver, the trucking company that employed him and the freight broker that arranged the shipment.
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June 12, 2026
A Florida federal judge has shut down an Orlando firm's bid to get a cut of a pending settlement in a suit alleging Google LLC and a chatbot company caused a teen's suicide, rejecting the firm's "demonstrably untrue" statement supporting its bid.
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June 12, 2026
A Florida state appeals court ruled Friday that a man given nearly 6.5 years in prison for probation violations should be resentenced after he was incorrectly denied his self-filed request for a downward departure from the sentencing guidelines.
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June 12, 2026
After enlisting a crew of experienced attorneys, defendants charged in an insider trading case allegedly involving deal information stolen from huge law firms are preparing to use a strategy that could take some cues from the "Varsity Blues" case in the same Boston courthouse.
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June 12, 2026
A Florida judicial panel brought an ethics complaint against a state court judge in Jacksonville over his remarks from the bench, alleging his comments appeared to endorse violence, convey bias and demean individuals during several proceedings last year.
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June 12, 2026
A Virginia federal court judge ordered the federal government Friday to submit in writing that it won't create a $1.8 billion payment fund to settle President Donald Trump's tax leak suit against the Internal Revenue Service.
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June 12, 2026
Insurers for the failed Silicon Valley Bank are not entitled to a quick win in a $73 million fraud coverage dispute, the bank and its receiver told a North Carolina federal court, saying the carriers' interpretation of the financial institution bonds' extended forgery provision is not supported by policy language.
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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 11, 2026
The former CEO of a company that merged with President Donald Trump's Truth Social platform urged a Florida state court on Thursday to again allow him to depose U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, arguing his testimony is highly relevant to the lawsuit over a botched public offering.
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June 11, 2026
OpenAI told a New York federal judge Thursday that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Cox v. Sony decision bars a contributory infringement claim brought by four news companies accusing the artificial intelligence company of using their copyrighted materials to train ChatGPT, saying the high court's ruling eliminates the legal theory on which the plaintiffs rely.
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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.
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June 11, 2026
The Florida Supreme Court ruled that the former CEO of Marvel Entertainment doesn't need to show "clear and convincing" evidence to add a punitive damages claim against his neighbor, saying Thursday the lower court doesn't act as a trier of fact at the pleading stage of a lawsuit.
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June 11, 2026
A medical marijuana patient can't sue Florida dispensary Sunburn Cannabis for secretly sharing his health data with Google LLC, the dispensary argued to a federal court this week, saying he consented to the tracking via its website's privacy policy.
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June 11, 2026
Patients who have accused hospital operator Health First of illegally fending off competition by preventing doctors from referring patients to rivals have convinced a Florida federal judge to put their lawsuit on hold while they challenge her decision to deny them class certification.
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June 11, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday asked justices in Georgia and Florida to weigh in on whether commercial general liability insurers must defend and indemnify Publix Super Markets Inc. and a Georgia-based generic-drug wholesaler against suits claiming they improperly distributed opioids.
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June 11, 2026
Florida's wording of a proposed constitutional amendment set to be voted on in November to boost the state's homestead exemption misinforms voters of the effects of the ballot measure, according to a complaint filed in state circuit court Thursday.
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June 11, 2026
The First National Bank of Pasco faces accusations it retaliated against its CEO by firing him after he made a whistleblower report about suspected compliance issues at the bank to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
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June 11, 2026
A federal magistrate judge has recommended permanently enjoining a Florida company from infringing trademarks on the children's show "Blippi," agreeing with the U.K.-based business that makes the show that the Florida company's Blippi impersonators were infringing.
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June 11, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit on Thursday tossed an insurer's appeal of a decision denying its bid to intervene in a suit against a Georgia hotel that was ordered to pay $40 million for its role in allowing sex trafficking on its premises.
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June 11, 2026
The Florida state judge overseeing a three-way dispute over ownership of a record-breaking home run ball by baseball star Shohei Ohtani did not indicate at a hearing Thursday whether he would send the case to a jury, but did suggest to the parties that the case "could easily be settled."
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June 11, 2026
The CEO of Miss America and companies linked to the pageant asked a Florida federal court on Thursday to bar their former counsel Carlton Fields from a status conference in their litigation over Miss America's bankruptcy, arguing the firm is not a party and is no longer counsel of record.
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June 11, 2026
The Connecticut Supreme Court on Thursday ordered a new trial over the state's $13.2 million tax assessment against the estate of a health insurance executive who died in Florida, saying a trial judge should have applied a lower standard of proof when determining the executive's state of residence.
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June 11, 2026
The Florida Supreme Court has reinstated the law license of former Trump campaign attorney Kenneth Chesebro after his conviction in Georgia's election interference racketeering case was eventually cleared by a court order invalidating the charge.
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June 11, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court has ruled that a lender was entitled to place disputed second mortgages on dozens of apartment properties controlled by a real estate investor, rejecting claims that the liens were invalid and entering judgment for the lender after a trial.