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June 04, 2026
Two former sales directors for a real estate brokerage must stop recruiting former coworkers for a rival company that hired them, North Carolina's business court has said, finding the new employer should also be barred from meddling with more of the brokerage's employment contracts.
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June 04, 2026
The Yurok Tribe is asking a California district court to block the City of Trinidad from asserting jurisdiction over matters affecting an Indigenous village site, arguing that the city exceeded its authority in appointing another tribe to oversee its protection.
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June 04, 2026
Under new release-based cleanup regulations that took effect March 1, Connecticut now requires pollution to be reported and remediated when it is found, not when property changes hands, a shift lawyers say expands reporting requirements and accelerates cleanup timelines.
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June 04, 2026
A California federal judge refused to allow Navigators Specialty Insurance Co. to file a reconsideration motion for a prior ruling that dismissed the insurer's claims in its coverage suit against a client company taken into arbitration over a California data center project.
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June 04, 2026
The New York state trial court judge overseeing President Donald Trump's civil fraud case granted his request to preserve notes from private meetings between state litigators and Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen after the key witness said he felt "pressured" to testify.
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June 04, 2026
Colorado will change processes related to delinquent mobile home property taxes under legislation signed by Gov. Jared Polis, but will not boost the exemption for mobile homes as proposed in the original version of the bill.
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June 03, 2026
Facing sanctions for allegedly frivolous litigation in New York state court, Brooklyn political powerbroker Frank Seddio testified Wednesday that his federally-charged client made numerous court filings under his name.
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June 03, 2026
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP launched a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in Washington federal court on Tuesday claiming the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau wrongfully withheld information about possible consumer protection law violations by Veterans United, a mortgage lender targeted in a proposed class action led by the law firm.
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June 03, 2026
A North Dakota federal judge granted the government an early win in a Colorado energy company's bid for the court to vacate a series of Bureau of Indian Affairs decisions that found it didn't own interest in an oil lease, upholding the agency's decision that the company lacked standing.
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June 03, 2026
Iowa nuclear energy facilities that are beginning or restarting operation are eligible for a sales tax exemption on purchases of materials under a law signed by the governor.
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June 03, 2026
Cooley LLP announced Wednesday that it has hired a pair of Kirkland & Ellis LLP attorneys who the firm says strengthen its ability to guide clients through the full life cycle of infrastructure investments.
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June 03, 2026
Oklahoma's governor pocket vetoed a bill that would have excluded solar power companies and battery energy storage systems from a property tax exemption for manufacturing facilities.
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June 03, 2026
A Texan who led an $8.5 million tax scheme involving trusts was sentenced to more than seven years in prison, making him the last defendant to be sentenced in a family-run operation, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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June 03, 2026
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative announced what it is calling a government-to-government mechanism that will manage bilateral trade between the U.S. and China, including by considering tariff cuts, and asked for public comments on the program's development.
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June 02, 2026
Counsel for two certified classes of residents and homeowners told a North Carolina state appeals court Tuesday that they should be handed a new jury trial, as a county neglected state statute when it extracted millions of dollars in impact fees from local families without a clear plan on how to spend those funds.
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June 02, 2026
Florida-based law firm Lowndes has established a new group that focuses on "the transactional and regulatory matters that shape residential development," the firm announced Tuesday.
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June 02, 2026
Longtime political powerbroker Frank Seddio took the stand in New York state court on Tuesday as he faces sanctions for allegedly blocking the recovery of $2 million in escrow money, allegedly stolen as part of a wide-ranging embezzlement scheme linked to the arrest of his client and a former Brooklyn state judge.
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June 02, 2026
A Washington state appeals panel Monday revived a pair of challenges to an environmental impact statement published as part of Seattle's comprehensive plan for the city's next two decades of growth, ruling that the challenges aren't barred by recent state laws encouraging the construction of more housing.
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June 02, 2026
Residents of a Los Angeles suburb who sued Northrop Grumman over alleged environmental contamination have asked a California federal judge to preliminarily approve a $75 million class deal struck midtrial with the aerospace company that also proposes their attorneys receive up to 40% of the fund — and possibly more.
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June 02, 2026
The Catawba Indian Nation can't assert blanket immunity from a development company's suit claiming the tribe "ran wild" with the access it received to privately owned land surrounding the tribe's planned casino in North Carolina, the company told a state appellate panel Tuesday.
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June 02, 2026
A proposed class of tenants argued in a Colorado federal lawsuit that software company Entrata paid kickbacks to property management companies that enticed residents to pay monthly fees for a credit monitoring service called RentPlus.
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June 02, 2026
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday on Truth Social that he was naming Federal Housing Finance Agency head and political ally William Pulte as acting director of national intelligence.
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June 02, 2026
Sweden-based Legora, a legal artificial intelligence platform, announced Tuesday its acquisition of Cadastral, an AI startup focused on commercial real estate.
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June 02, 2026
The U.S. Department of State should start releasing records about the federal government's role in the 2016 nationalization of Ukraine's largest bank, a Florida federal magistrate judge has said, recommending that the court rule in favor of two associates of the bank's former owners.
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June 02, 2026
The Texas State Securities Board announced it has entered an emergency order to halt a purported property group, its principals and an associated Texas resident from offering and selling unregistered and fraudulent tokenized real estate investments, saying the conduct "threatens immediate and irreparable public harm."