BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN PITTSBURGH v. CITY OF PITTSBURGH et al

  1. June 15, 2023

    Eckert Seamans Wants Out Of Pittsburgh Zoning Suit

    Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC has asked a Pennsylvania federal judge to allow it to duck out of a trade association's suit challenging a Pittsburgh zoning ordinance, saying it hasn't been paid since February 2022.

  2. April 04, 2023

    Pittsburgh Must Face Trimmed 'Inclusionary Zoning' Suit

    A Pennsylvania federal judge is keeping two claims alive in a trade association's challenge to a Pittsburgh zoning ordinance aimed at increasing the city's supply of affordable housing, finding that the group does not need to claim its members had been directly harmed by the rule to level its lawsuit.

  3. August 17, 2022

    Pittsburgh Orgs Want In On City 'Inclusionary Zoning' Battle

    A coalition of Pittsburgh community organizations filed to intervene in a developers trade group's suit challenging the city's "inclusionary zoning ordinance," telling a Pennsylvania federal court the edict falls within states' broad power to regulate housing conditions.

  4. August 15, 2022

    Pittsburgh Calls Builders' 'Inclusionary Zoning' Suit Unripe

    The City of Pittsburgh urged a federal judge to throw out developers' challenge to an "inclusionary zoning ordinance" as unripe Monday, since no members of the Builders Association of Metropolitan Pittsburgh had sought to build any projects that would be subject to the new rules.

  5. August 02, 2022

    Zoning, Carbon Regulation Among Top Construction Lawsuits

    While major cases proceeded in state courts — including the $1 billion Surfside condo collapse settlement in Florida and a rail yard contract dispute in Texas — federal courts had their hands full of construction-related litigation during the first half of 2022.

  6. May 12, 2022

    Builders Sue To Stop Pittsburgh's 'Inclusionary Zoning' Rule

    A group of developers and builders filed a federal lawsuit against Pittsburgh on Thursday, seeking to block a new "inclusionary zoning" ordinance that will require them to include units for low-income residents in certain large new housing developments.