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May 19, 2026
SunZia Transmission LLC and the U.S. Department of the Interior are asking an Arizona district court to dismiss a challenge to the construction of a 520-mile power line route through the San Pedro Valley, saying the "late-breaking" litigation is one of the greatest threats to completing needed energy infrastructure.
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May 19, 2026
The District of Columbia said neither federal law nor the D.C. Code authorizes the president's deployment of the D.C. National Guard for law-enforcement activities in the district, urging the D.C. Circuit to uphold an injunction barring the deployment.
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May 19, 2026
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche argued before a Senate committee on Tuesday that the nearly $1.8 billion settlement fund announced on Monday as part of the president's settlement with the Internal Revenue Service over his leaked tax documents "is not a slush fund."
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May 19, 2026
A Chinese equipment testing lab says the Federal Communications Commission needs to tread carefully in crafting new rules demanding "reciprocal" agreements to test communications gear, or risk disrupting U.S. supply chains.
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May 19, 2026
Lawyers for President Donald Trump and his niece Mary Trump told a New York court Tuesday that they may be approaching a settlement of his suit against her for sharing his tax records with The New York Times, an act she has said was protected speech.
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May 19, 2026
A California federal judge on Monday rejected the U.S. government's contention that a prior order limiting its ability to hold migrant minors in hotels applied only to expulsions tied to a public health order put in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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May 19, 2026
The Federal Trade Commission asked the Fifth Circuit to put its appeal on hold in a case challenging the agency's effort to overhaul its premerger filing requirements, to give enforcers time to consider developing a new revision.
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May 19, 2026
Georgia became one of the latest states this year to put up new guardrails on AI-powered chatbots, implementing stricter regulations than some of its peers while shutting the door on private litigation arising from practices that violate the new statute.
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May 19, 2026
The Senate voted 52-38 on Tuesday to confirm Sheria Clarke, a partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP, as a judge for the District of South Carolina.
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May 19, 2026
The federal government on Tuesday asked a Massachusetts judge for an opportunity to rectify what the judge identified as a problematic lack of explanation for how quickly it unleashed a demand for colleges' admissions data.
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May 19, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge signed off on the U.S. Department of Justice's settlement with RealPage, the latest development in a suit alleging landlords coordinated to inflate rental prices via the company's algorithmic pricing software.
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May 19, 2026
A Connecticut state judge has relieved Pullman & Comley LLC of malpractice, negligence, gross negligence, recklessness and fiduciary duty claims in a lender's lawsuit surrounding an allegedly unauthorized $16.2 million loan, ruling that the lender was not the law firm's client and, therefore, did not have standing to bring the claims.
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May 19, 2026
Verizon has sought the FCC's blessing to retire older voice and data transmission services in eight different states, but New York state officials want the agency to hold off, arguing the suspension would put "essential public services and critical community functions" at risk.
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May 19, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday released an addendum to the settlement of President Donald Trump's suit against the IRS over the leak of his tax return information that bars the agency from investigating any pending matters against Trump.
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May 19, 2026
The U.S. solicitor general urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to wade into a religious bias case challenging New York's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers, arguing that a Second Circuit decision backing the case's dismissal did not undermine federal civil rights law.
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May 19, 2026
Pennsylvania Supreme Court justices seemed torn Tuesday between the idea that the state's Department of Transportation doesn't "own" everything above and below its roadways and the concept that the agency could duck liability for obvious risks like falling branches or crumbling bridges.
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May 19, 2026
Potential splits emerged Tuesday between D.C. Circuit judges questioning the legality of the U.S. Department of Defense's move to bar Anthropic from government contracting, with the AI company claiming it had been targeted and smeared as a national security threat for nothing more than a contract dispute.
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May 19, 2026
The Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians says Wisconsin is misinterpreting tribal regulatory authority in its bid to block the tribe from barring nonmember fishing in 19 lakes within its reservation, telling a federal district court that the state can't prove key elements of its claims.
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May 19, 2026
The European Parliament approved a regulation to strengthen the European Union's protections from global steel overcapacity, cutting the tariff-free import quota by 47% while doubling the duty on imports beyond the quota to 50%, according to a news release Tuesday.
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May 19, 2026
Imported plastic boxes from Vietnam could be hit with a more than 130% antidumping duty rate after the U.S. Department of Commerce on Tuesday finalized its determination that the products are being sold at less than fair value.
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May 19, 2026
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention invoked an emergency public health law Monday to impose entry restrictions for non-U.S. passport holders who have been in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, or South Sudan in the prior three weeks due to an Ebola outbreak.
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May 19, 2026
The IRS issued final regulations Tuesday that remove a requirement for partnerships to include information in tax returns to help partners who sold interests in businesses with noncapital assets determine their gain or loss, preserving the rules as proposed last year.
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May 19, 2026
The U.K. government is seeking feedback on a property tax surcharge for homes worth at least £2 million ($2.67 million), according to a consultation launched Tuesday.
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May 19, 2026
A fee imposed on noncitizens who fail to appear before an immigration judge and are ordered removed in absentia and later arrested would jump from $5,130 to $18,000 under a new U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement proposal.
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May 19, 2026
A pair of plaintiffs attorneys running to unseat Republican-appointed justices on the Georgia Supreme Court asked the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate an Eleventh Circuit ruling that allowed Georgia's judicial watchdog to issue public statements about ethics violations they are accused of committing.