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March 17, 2026
Plaintiffs suing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for rescinding a COVID-era eviction rule without notice and comment dropped their case Monday, saying the agency had agreed to "indefinitely delay" the rule change's implementation and convert it from an interim rule to a proposed rule for now.
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March 16, 2026
The First Circuit on Monday mostly upheld a lower court's order blocking the Trump administration from enacting a "sweeping and unprecedented categorical 'freeze' of federal financial assistance," ruling that the states involved in the suit will likely successfully show that the federal government acted arbitrarily and capriciously.
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March 16, 2026
The Trump administration on Monday asked a Massachusetts federal judge to toss a pair of lawsuits challenging a change to eligibility requirements for student loan forgiveness, calling the potential repercussions from the new rule "speculative."
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March 16, 2026
A California federal court on Monday officially dismissed False Claims Act lawsuits from the federal government and three people alleging that Kaiser Permanente affiliates engaged in Medicare fraud, on the heels of Kaiser's $556 million settlement reached in January.
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March 16, 2026
The Trump administration's recent designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk to national security sends a message to government contractors that they must either fall in line with the government's demands or face the consequences.
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March 16, 2026
Environmental advocacy groups and localities seeking to revive their suit accusing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of illegally stripping $3 billion from a congressionally created program told the D.C. Circuit on Monday that the government's own documentation indicated that the funding should have remained in place when Congress axed "unobligated" funding.
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March 16, 2026
Anduril Industries Inc. secured a new $20 billion enterprise contract with the U.S. Army, under which the agency consolidated its procurement of the company's existing and future commercially available technologies, including Anduril's artificial intelligence platform Lattice.
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March 16, 2026
Democrats have referred the departing U.S. secretary of homeland security, Kristi Noem, to the Department of Justice for a perjury investigation following her recent congressional testimony.
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March 16, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court's docket last week featured disputes including an $83.75 million settlement tied to a renewable energy merger, fraud claims in a fertilizer company acquisition and a developer's fight for control of a major Philadelphia redevelopment project.
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March 16, 2026
The U.S. Government Accountability Office found the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services did not treat a technology contractor unequally by giving it a low-confidence rating in the technical category even though the winning bidder had time-management issues.
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March 13, 2026
A Florida federal judge on Friday sentenced two Maryland brothers to prison for their roles in a fraudulent medication scheme that involved selling misbranded HIV drugs with fake tracing documents to pharmacies and patients.
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March 13, 2026
The Sixth Circuit has partly lifted a lower court order blocking a northern Michigan island from enforcing a new ferry ordinance, ruling the city can regulate ferry rates while the case proceeds but likely cannot control parking prices at mainland parking lots.
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March 13, 2026
A split Fourth Circuit panel on Friday revived a whistleblower suit accusing an Allergan Sales LLC predecessor of overcharging Medicaid by more than $680 million, saying the whistleblower plausibly alleged the company knowingly improperly aggregated discounts into "best prices" for drugs.
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March 13, 2026
A state law that stripped a Pennsylvania city of its ability to appoint all the members of its water authority's board was unconstitutional, the bankrupt city of Chester said in a Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court petition Friday, challenging a law that derailed its Chapter 9 plans to sell the local agency's assets.
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March 13, 2026
Hartford insurers argued in a bid for an early win that a straightforward policy justified their decision to retroactively charge a government contractor an additional $1.7 million in premiums for misclassifying some workers as clerical, instead of warehouse, employees.
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March 13, 2026
An artificial-intelligence-based legal search engine appealing a finding that its use of Thomson Reuters' Westlaw headnotes did not constitute fair use has pointed to arguments in a separate case it says supports the idea that AI training is connected to national security.
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March 13, 2026
Connecticut lawmakers are one-third of the way through the state's three-month legislative session, and already, bills targeting social media, artificial intelligence, prediction markets, private equity and hospital ownership are stacking up at the statehouse.
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March 13, 2026
The federal government's landlord told the federal judiciary it is "ill equipped" to have direct authority to maintain its buildings.
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March 13, 2026
Some of the country's biggest shipbuilders accused of conspiring to suppress naval architect and engineer wages told a Virginia federal judge a proposed class waited too long to add a new named plaintiff who worked in the industry more recently.
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March 12, 2026
A Texas appeals court seemed skeptical of a city utility's view that the state's utility commission cannot control how it spends money it collects from providing services, asking Thursday if the regulator could intervene if the municipality used the funds to, for example, give its mayor a Lamborghini.
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March 12, 2026
An Arizona-based physician group that offers cardiology and vascular services has inked a $4.75 million settlement to resolve False Claims Act allegations they performed unnecessary vein ablations and submitted claims for payment to government healthcare programs for reimbursement, the U.S. Department of Justice said Thursday.
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March 12, 2026
Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman brought her fight against a suspension imposed on her by her colleagues to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, arguing that a lower court wrongly held that her challenges to the order are not subject to judicial review.
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March 12, 2026
Four Democratic lawmakers have called on President Donald Trump and U.S. Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to provide clarity on how they plan to enforce a recent executive order barring defense contractors from buying back their stock or paying shareholder dividends if they are underperforming on their contracts.
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March 12, 2026
Ecuador's state-owned oil shipping company on Wednesday urged a Pennsylvania federal court not to force it to arbitrate its $650 million lawsuit over events at the heart of an impeachment scandal involving former Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso, arguing that the case is "not a contract dispute."
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March 12, 2026
While the U.S. has ranked at the top of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's list measuring how countries worldwide are enforcing intellectual property laws, the group said problems with free trade agreements and efforts to reduce pharmaceutical prices could cause problems on the horizon domestically.