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May 29, 2026
The past week in London has seen the billionaire who donated £5 million ($6.7 million) to Nigel Farage sue Ben Habib, the leader of far-right party Advance UK, for defamation, Mashreqbank bring claims against three subsidiaries of dissolved private equity giant Abraaj Group for commercial fraud and the property and investment vehicle of the State of Kuwait be targeted by four real estate figures who filed a miscellaneous claim. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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May 29, 2026
The U.S. Army has escaped a negligence lawsuit brought by the family of a man who drowned during a scuba diving class, with a federal judge in Washington state ruling the plaintiffs failed to exhaust administrative remedies before filing their complaint.
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May 29, 2026
The First Circuit has ruled that the superintendent of the Massachusetts state police is immune from civil rights claims in a proposed class action over the use of a Motorola app that secretly records phone conversations.
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May 29, 2026
UnitedHealthcare's "growth at all costs strategy" led the insurer's Massachusetts subsidiary to overcharge the state by more than $100 million by exaggerating the medical conditions and needs of seniors, the state's attorney general said in a Friday lawsuit.
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May 28, 2026
Three Democratic lawmakers wrote to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth expressing concern over the Pentagon's growing reliance on private equity-backed defense contractors, which they said could pose risks to taxpayers and national security.
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May 28, 2026
An environmental services contractor has filed a U.S. Court of Federal Claims lawsuit seeking $1.82 million from the U.S. Army for additional work required after crews encountered unexpected site conditions while shuttering two artesian wells in New Mexico.
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May 28, 2026
Psychiatric hospital operator Oglethorpe Inc. has agreed to pay $32 million and be excluded from all federal healthcare programs for 10 years to resolve allegations it knowingly failed to return Medicare overpayments in violation of the False Claims Act.
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May 28, 2026
A Colorado landowner said the city of Greeley shorted them out of millions of dollars by using an old survey to undervalue the maximum water storage amount for a set of reservoirs the city has been attempting to build for over 25 years, according to a complaint filed in state court Thursday.
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May 28, 2026
New Mexico's attorney general accused two counties in state court of violating a recently enacted state law by failing to terminate their agreements with the federal government to assist with civil immigration enforcement, saying the law expressly bars the agreements.
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May 28, 2026
A Colorado police department's use of a network of Flock cameras to photograph and track vehicles is unconstitutional, according to a proposed class action brought by Boulder residents in state court.
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May 28, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice announced that it's speeding up the agency's review of whistleblower complaints accusing contractors of defrauding state-administered benefits programs that are funded by the federal government, in violation of the False Claims Act.
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May 28, 2026
A New Jersey appeals court on Thursday questioned whether the state comptroller's office exceeded its authority when it subpoenaed a private company that provides services to charter schools, asking whether the agency was conducting an audit of or an investigation into the company.
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May 28, 2026
Ferry companies suing a northern Michigan resort island say the city is improperly trying to cancel upcoming depositions of its mayor and council members without a court order, accusing it of using a last-minute protective order motion as a delay tactic.
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May 28, 2026
The Ninth Circuit has said it will not disturb its March ruling allowing a hospital chain to pursue a False Claims Act lawsuit against various pharmaceutical companies for allegedly causing the government to overpay for drugs under a discount program.
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May 27, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge on Wednesday ordered Ecuador's state-owned oil shipping company to arbitrate its $650 million lawsuit over events at the heart of an impeachment scandal involving former Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso, ruling that underlying arbitration clauses are valid and enforceable.
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May 27, 2026
The National Trust for Historic Preservation on Wednesday urged the D.C. Circuit to affirm a district court injunction that halted President Donald Trump's construction of a White House ballroom, arguing there's no justification for the project to proceed without Congress' approval.
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May 27, 2026
Several organizations have joined the legal fight to restore $127 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture grants aimed at fighting climate change through diverse farm ownership, arguing that the agency's termination of the funding was arbitrary and capricious.
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May 27, 2026
Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, released his draft of the nearly $1.15 trillion National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2027 on Tuesday, focusing on revitalizing the U.S. defense industrial base and supporting small businesses.
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May 27, 2026
Defense contractor AeroVironment is facing a proposed investor class action accusing several of its executives of misleading shareholders about the outlook for a major U.S. Space Force satellite communications modernization program.
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May 27, 2026
Washington state officials asked a federal judge to allow it access to a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility to inspect its conditions, arguing private prison operator GEO Group is not immune from local public health and safety laws.
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May 27, 2026
The U.S. Space Force said it has competitively awarded a $2.29 billion contract to SpaceX under its "space data network backbone" program to help provide a secure, high-speed communications network in space.
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May 27, 2026
A Washington federal court has revived the state's ability to receive reimbursements under a federal program that helps cover states' provision of sheltering services to noncitizens, finding that the Trump administration ran afoul of Congress' express funding priorities.
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May 26, 2026
The Trump administration on Tuesday once again sued the University of California, Los Angeles over its handling of protests following Hamas' October 2023 attack on Israel, this time demanding that the university repay federal grants it received while it was allegedly "deliberately indifferent" to antisemitism on campus.
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May 26, 2026
The U.S. Air Force has told the U.S. Supreme Court that the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that the military branch was required to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act before seeking to renew a permit to dispose of hazardous waste at Tarague Beach on Guam.
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May 26, 2026
Attorneys for two consulting company executives accused of bribing a top U.S. Navy admiral shifted and narrowed their core defense strategies in the wake of a mistrial last year, a risky move that paid off earlier this month when a federal jury in D.C. found the pair not guilty on all counts.