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September 16, 2026
A split Ninth Circuit panel on Wednesday partially reinstated Washington state property owners' suit accusing an insurer of bad faith by refusing to defend them and representing their opposing neighbors in an easement dispute, saying the lower court improperly relied on a case that didn't address bad faith.
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September 16, 2026
A religious institution's property used as administrative offices and leased to a healthcare entity doesn't qualify for a charitable-use tax exemption, the Ohio Board of Tax Appeals ruled Wednesday, upholding the state tax commissioner.
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September 14, 2026
A California federal judge Monday ordered U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stop work on its conversion of a former agricultural research site into a detention facility, finding the agency offered no proof that it examined risks from prior hazardous waste violations at the property before starting construction.
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September 11, 2026
The legal chief at Two Harbors is among a handful of executives leaving the mortgage servicing-focused real estate investment trust following its August acquisition by CrossCountry Mortgage, according to a securities filing.
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September 11, 2026
A county assessor in Oregon was right to recoup property taxes for past years after revoking a tax break for farm use, the state tax court ruled, finding the land failed to meet past income requirements for the designation.
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September 10, 2026
The federal government and Ohio have decided to settle their more than 15-year legal battle over the state's authorization of coal mining near a federal dam and reservoir.
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September 10, 2026
The IRS has been adversarial toward taxpayers using what is known as the income approach to value conservation easements, but the method's legitimacy was significantly reinforced by the U.S. Tax Court in a recent decision that endorsed the use of the method to value a Los Angeles-area donated property.
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September 10, 2026
An organization that runs foster care and residential facilities for adults with disabilities qualifies as a nonprofit charitable institution that is exempt from property taxes in two municipalities, the Michigan Tax Tribunal ruled.
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September 10, 2026
PGR Lessee I and 18 affiliates that operate solar farm projects in Rhode Island, North Carolina and South Carolina filed for bankruptcy protection in Texas, estimating up to $500 million in liabilities.
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September 09, 2026
An international tribunal has determined that Mexico violated international law when it partially shut down limestone quarrying by a unit of U.S.-based construction aggregates company Vulcan Materials Co., an award made public on Wednesday said.
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September 04, 2026
The Washington Attorney General's Office has asked the state's Utilities and Transportation Commission to reject Pacific Power and Light Co.'s $1.9 billion sale of its Washington service area to Portland General Electric, saying the deal would raise costs and cut customers off from one of the state's clean energy sources.
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September 04, 2026
Georgia property owners will mediate a dispute with land developers over claims that the developers polluted streams and a lake on their property during preparations for a solar farm, according to an order in federal court.
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September 03, 2026
Massachusetts' top appellate court granted a tiny Bay State town a win in an ongoing land battle with Northeastern University, finding that the community was within its rights to use eminent domain to take property the school had hoped to use to expand a research center.
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September 03, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service was wrong to disallow two conservation easement deductions worth a combined $78 million based on potential mining activity without adequately explaining why, an Alabama real estate developer told the U.S. Tax Court.
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September 03, 2026
Oklahoma law firm McAfee & Taft PC said a corporate and real estate lawyer with more than 12 years of experience has rejoined the firm after holding several legal and compliance roles for organizations in the state.
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September 03, 2026
Renewable energy real estate investment company SolaREIT has hired Marisa McCurdy as its new general counsel and Daniel Leppert as its new transaction counsel, the company announced.
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September 02, 2026
A former director for a Florida organization that supports a large shelter for women and children has returned to Bilzin Sumberg Baena Price & Axelrod LLP to work in its land development and government relations group in Miami.
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September 01, 2026
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security asked a Georgia federal judge to pause a city's suit attempting to block the conversion of an empty warehouse into a 10,000-bed detention center, saying the facility is no longer needed.
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September 01, 2026
Ares Management said it has closed its latest Japan-focused logistics real estate development fund with about $4 billion in commitments, including nearly $1 billion from the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board.
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September 01, 2026
A shuttered Detroit church property that the owner planned to turn into a community center doesn't qualify for a tax break because the owner didn't prove the property was occupied during the years at issue, the Michigan Tax Tribunal ruled.
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August 31, 2026
Ohio federal judges on Monday tossed more than a half dozen lawsuits business owners filed against Norfolk Southern Corp. over the East Palestine train derailment and chemical spill in the state after the plaintiffs and the railroad moved to have them dismissed.
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August 27, 2026
The Sixth Circuit revived proposed class claims accusing Michigan officials of violating property owners' due process rights by keeping interest earned on unclaimed financial accounts, holding that the state takes custody of abandoned property but does not take ownership of it.
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August 27, 2026
The Eleventh Circuit has found that a Florida real estate financier triggered default on a $56.3 million loan for three Houston, Austin and Dallas-area properties in Texas by filing for bankruptcy protection after assigning one property's management to a new entity, in a ruling favoring hotel lender Access Point Financial.
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August 26, 2026
The Center for Biological Diversity, Snake River Waterkeeper and ManaSota-88 Inc. urged Congress on Wednesday to remove a provision from the National Defense Authorization Act that the center says would "cede historic lands of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes in Idaho to expand a radioactive waste dump at one of the country's largest Superfund sites."
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August 26, 2026
As practitioners scrambled to meet deadlines to settle clients' disputes over conservation easement tax deductions, the IRS made a surprise announcement this month that it would establish an office to solely focus on such cases. Here, Law360 looks at how four factors will affect whether the IRS achieves its stated plans for the office.