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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.
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May 18, 2026
A Florida federal court rejected a roofer's claims that the state's Department of Financial Services caused him to be charged three times with insurance fraud, ruling the agency's job at large is to investigate alleged criminal misconduct.
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May 18, 2026
Boeing must face claims that a factory worker's on-the-job chemical exposure caused birth defects in his child, a Washington Court of Appeals panel said in a published ruling Monday, finding that an employer "may be liable for negligence towards an employee's not-yet-conceived offspring."
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May 18, 2026
A Texas federal judge on Monday considered whether he has the power to stop removal proceedings against the mayor of Corpus Christi, Texas, and whether the city charter allows the potential ouster, pressing counsel on legal and factual questions surrounding the removal process.
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May 18, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office data indicates the office mistakenly kept hundreds of thousands of records of patent ownership transfers from becoming public for years, according to researchers who analyzed the files, an error that experts say could cause complications for anyone who relied on the incomplete data.
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May 18, 2026
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is seeking public comment on a new set of proposed regulations for complying with the age determination and parental consent aspects of a looming law that restricts social media platforms from using algorithms to deliver addictive feeds to children.
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May 18, 2026
A New York federal judge Monday largely barred U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from conducting arrests at three Manhattan immigration courthouses, finding there was no good reason why "unfettered discretion" by ICE officers was better than a policy with arrest limitations.
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May 18, 2026
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched his own investigation into potential anticompetitive conduct among the country's meatpackers, a probe that will take place alongside the U.S. Department of Justice's ongoing investigation into the same allegations.
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May 18, 2026
The Trump administration told a D.C. federal judge that a technology research coalition's lack of injury should doom a suit challenging its new visa restriction policy targeting noncitizens who help foreign governments censor protected expression by American citizens and tech companies.
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May 18, 2026
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday officially unveiled plans to roll back limits for certain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, aka forever chemicals, in drinking water systems and to delay compliance requirements, a move environmentalists said "needlessly" exposes Americans to dangerous chemicals and could be illegal.
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May 18, 2026
A Florida jury heard opening arguments Monday in a trial over the lung cancer death of a woman who started smoking at a time when Philip Morris was "wallpapering" the nation with pro-smoking messages, her family's lawyer said.