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February 20, 2025
Wash. Justices Say CARES Act Doesn't Shield Violent Renters
The Washington Supreme Court on Thursday said landlords did not have to give 30 days' notice under the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act before evicting violent tenants, settling a question that had split two lower appellate panels.
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February 20, 2025
Court Asks Trump's DOJ To Opine On Texas Tribal Land Fight
A Texas federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to say whether it still wants to intervene in a land dispute between the Ysleta Del Sur Pueblo tribe and the city of El Paso now that Donald Trump is president.
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February 20, 2025
NY Expands Local Power To Give Storm Damage Tax Breaks
New York state expanded municipalities' authority to provide property tax breaks to owners of property damaged by severe storms and other natural disasters by allowing that relief to be granted for small business' property as part of a bill signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
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February 20, 2025
Home Equity Lender Preys On Consumers, Mass. AG Alleges
Home equity investment company Hometap Equity Partners is violating Massachusetts consumer protection laws by offering what amounts to unregulated versions of reverse mortgages to vulnerable consumers, the state's attorney general charged in a lawsuit filed Wednesday in state court.
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February 20, 2025
Holland & Knight Adds Manatt Real Estate Pro In California
Holland & Knight LLP continues expanding its West Coast team, bringing in a Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP real estate expert as a partner in its Orange County, California, office.
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February 19, 2025
Wash. City, Tribe Reach Deal In Emergency Shelter Dispute
The small Washington city of Toppenish and the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation have reached a settlement to end a federal lawsuit over a 24-hour emergency cold weather shelter within reservation boundaries.
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February 19, 2025
Airlines Can Ask 9th Circ. To Consider Airport Pollution Suit
A Washington judge has cleared Delta Air Lines and Alaska Airlines to ask the Ninth Circuit to weigh in on whether federal regulations governing air travel or jet emissions prevent property owners and residents from suing over alleged flight-path pollution near Seattle's main commercial airport.
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February 19, 2025
Taylor English Adds Fla. Real Estate Ace From Moffa Sutton
Taylor English Duma LLP announced Wednesday that it is now home to a seasoned real estate agent and attorney in Florida who was previously a partner in the Law Offices of Moffa Sutton & Donnini PA's business law division.
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February 19, 2025
Ill. Dept. OKs Quantum Computing Building Tax Credit Regs
Illinois individual and corporate taxpayers may claim income tax credits for a portion of wages paid to workers employed in the construction of quantum computing campus facilities, the state Department of Revenue said in adopted regulatory amendments.
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February 19, 2025
Stearns Weaver Brings On Planning, Development Head In Fla.
Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson PA has a new nonattorney director of planning and development services who has racked up more than two decades of experience in both the public and private sectors in Florida.
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February 18, 2025
Colo. Property Owner Sued For Substandard Conditions
A proposed class of Denver tenants has claimed in Colorado state court that property manager Centerspace LP neglected its apartment building to the point that it became uninhabitable over the previous three years.
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February 18, 2025
NY Broadens Tax Break Guidelines For Development Projects
New York state broadened guidelines for determining whether some economic development projects may be eligible for property and sales tax exemptions based on the level of a project's on-site child care services under clarifying legislation signed by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul.
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February 18, 2025
Jones Day Leads Sherwin-Williams On $1.15B Brazil Paint Buy
Jones Day is guiding Cleveland-based Sherwin-Williams Co. on a new deal to buy the Brazilian architectural paints business of BASF Group, advised by Linklaters and Machado Meyer, for $1.15 billion in cash.
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February 18, 2025
Cozen O'Connor Adds Father-Daughter Real Estate Duo
Cozen O'Connor is expanding its real estate services in the Philadelphia office by adding a father-daughter duo that includes an attorney with more than two decades of experience who moved his practice after 19 years with Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP.
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February 18, 2025
Denver Landlord Says Defunct Moye White Owes Nearly $4M
A Denver landlord accused defunct law firm Moye White LLP in Colorado state court of owing almost $4 million after the law firm closed down in 2024.
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February 13, 2025
NY State Says Nothing New In Seneca Nation's Thruway Suit
The state of New York is asking a federal district court to dismiss a challenge by the Seneca Nation over a portion of thruway that runs through its reservation, arguing that nothing could have possibly changed in the 14-year dispute over the validity of a 1954 easement.
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February 13, 2025
DC Judge Says Utah Tribe Can't Restore Reservation Lands
A District of Columbia federal judge refused to hand over ownership of federally managed land in a Utah reservation to a Utah tribe, ruling Thursday that the tribe wasn't entitled to ownership.
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February 12, 2025
Rhodium Says Landlord Tried To 'Destroy' It In $300M Suit
Bankrupt Bitcoin mining company Rhodium Encore has filed a $300 million lawsuit in Texas bankruptcy court accusing competitor Riot Platforms and landlord and power provider Whinstone US Inc. of sabotaging its business and driving it into bankruptcy.
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February 12, 2025
5th Circ. OKs Drop Of Litigation Over Biden-Era GHG Rule
The Fifth Circuit has signed off on the Trump administration's decision to cease litigation over a Biden-era rule that required states to set targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions tied to federally funded highway projects.
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February 11, 2025
NY Bill Would Direct New Tax Revenue To Property Tax Cuts
New York state would require money derived from new or increased taxes to be used to reduce local property taxes under a bill introduced in the Senate.
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February 11, 2025
Paul Hastings Adds RE Partners From King & Spalding In DC
Two King & Spalding LLP real estate attorneys who have worked together for at least a decade have moved their practices to Paul Hastings LLP's Washington, D.C., shop, telling Law360 Pulse on Monday that they wanted to join the team because of the firm's recent growth.
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February 11, 2025
Bannon Cops To Fraud Scheme In Border Wall Case
Donald Trump's former chief strategist, Steve Bannon, pled guilty Tuesday to a single felony fraud scheme charge in New York state court as part of a deal with Manhattan prosecutors to avoid jail time in his "We Build The Wall" charity fraud case.
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February 10, 2025
Texas Property Owner Seeks Over $1M In Storm Coverage
A Nationwide unit unlawfully failed to cover hail and wind damage to a Texas property, its owner alleged in federal court, accusing the insurer of fraud and violating state insurance statutes over unfair settlement practices and prompt claim payment and seeking over $1 million in damages.
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February 10, 2025
Calif. Tribe Says DOI Gives It No Protection In Casino Row
The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria told a California federal judge that the U.S. Department of the Interior filed an incomplete status report about how it will monitor another tribe's project plans for the construction of a casino, saying the report fails to protect FIGR.
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February 10, 2025
Latest Ore. Fire Verdict Brings PacifiCorp Damages To $270M
An Oregon jury held that PacifiCorp must pay $49.5 million to eight victims of the state's 2020 Labor Day wildfires, bringing the total damages verdicts in the class action to $270 million so far as more bellwether trials loom throughout 2025.
Expert Analysis
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Carbon Cost Injunction Signals Hurdles For Biden Plans
A Louisiana federal court's unusually expansive injunction preventing the Biden administration from using its social cost of carbon estimates in future regulatory guidance may be a sign that the president's environmental agenda will face more aggressive court challenges going forward, say attorneys at WilmerHale.
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How US Trade Obligations Apply To Biden's Infrastructure Law
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act could require some state agencies that receive federal funding for infrastructure to consider for the first time whether U.S. international treaty obligations prevent the application of Buy America preferences for certain government purchases, subjecting them to new liability risks, say attorneys at Akin Gump.
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NY, NJ Lease Auctions Highlight US Push For Offshore Wind
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's upcoming auction of new lease areas for wind farms off the coasts of New York and New Jersey demonstrate the Biden administration's desire to foster the U.S. offshore wind industry — and interested parties should track the agency's plans for other coastal areas, says attorneys at K&L Gates.
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Infrastructure Law Is Not All Good News For Construction Cos.
The recently enacted Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act will help strengthen the construction industry and create jobs, but heightened material costs, conflicts between state and federal law, and environmental concerns must be considered by entities wishing to take advantage of the increased development, say Gary Strong and Madison Calkins at Gfeller Laurie.
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High Court's Return To Wetlands Debate May Bring Clarity
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision to revisit the reach of the Clean Water Act, in its forthcoming consideration of Sackett v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, may help lift the clouds of uncertainty that have plagued jurisdictional wetlands determinations for decades, says Bryan Moore at Balch & Bingham.
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Electricity Market Competition Helps Consumers And Climate
Lawmakers looking to combat climate change and increase consumer choice should encourage and expand competitive electricity supply markets, to free customers from inefficient and often corrupt vertically integrated monopoly utilities, says Todd Snitchler at the Electric Power Supply Association.
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What Infrastructure Act Means For Transmission Line Projects
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act gives the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission authority to supersede state siting decisions for electric transmission projects, but environmental review requirements make a sudden acceleration of transmission line construction unlikely, say attorneys at Winston & Strawn.
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DOI's Vision For Offshore Wind: Obstacles And Opportunities
The U.S. Department of Interior's recent announcement of its intent to open the U.S. coastline to large-scale offshore wind projects is promising, but wind developers must be ready to confront distinct technical and regulatory challenges in each coastal region, say attorneys at Holland & Knight.
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Jones Act Compliance Strategies For Offshore Wind Projects
Offshore wind developers can use a number of strategies to get projects done while meeting the challenges of complying with Jones Act requirements for the use of vessels built, owned and operated by U.S. persons, say Jonathan Wilconis and Carl Valenstein at Morgan Lewis.
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Biden's Infrastructure Funding Comes With Strings Attached
The bipartisan infrastructure funding bill enacted last November creates new jobs and business opportunities, but its changes to domestic preferences and Made in America enforcement also give rise to new compliance hazards for unwary manufacturers and government contractors, say Jeffrey Belkin and Grecia Rivas at Alston & Bird.
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NIMBYism Is Endangering America's Clean Energy Future
The U.S. has made remarkable strides in recent years toward a cleaner, more sustainable energy future — but further progress is threatened by a not-in-my-backyard cancel culture that seeks to thwart every type of major energy development, says Albert Wynn at Greenberg Traurig.
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Science-Based Definition Of US Waters Won't Pass In Court
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recently proposed a science-backed definition of "waters of the United States" for the Clean Water Act, but the U.S. Supreme Court is unlikely to be persuaded that science trumps a constitutional or statutory limit on the EPA's and the Corps' authority, says Jeffrey Porter at Mintz Levin.
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What Justices' Groundwater Ruling Means For State Disputes
The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Mississippi v. Tennessee aids future negotiations over interstate groundwater resources, both by explicitly informing states what the default rule is, and by implicitly giving states authority to trade off water rights across a broader spectrum of water resources, says Robin Craig at USC Gould School of Law.