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March 18, 2026
At a time when housing affordability is a major concern among constituents, Florida state lawmakers produced mixed results in the realm of real estate during their 2026 session, taking some significant actions but also not reaching consensus on numerous proposals, including the most prominent — property tax reform.
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March 18, 2026
Nautilus Insurance Co. must defend Norfolk Southern Railway Co. in a state tort action over the death of a salvage worker, a New York federal judge ruled, finding the railroad giant presented sufficient evidence that the worker may have caused his own injury.
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March 18, 2026
The New Jersey Supreme Court on Wednesday held that the state's tidelands steward is permitted to modify or establish a pierhead line in front of an individual property owner's land, rejecting a challenge to the approval of two licenses permitting the expansion of a dock in Barnegat Bay.
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March 17, 2026
A Texas state court judge issued a final judgment ordering that a contractor take nothing from its over $200 million claim that a rival allegedly used proprietary information to secure a lucrative maintenance work contract for Exxon, doing away with the lawsuit Tuesday.
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March 17, 2026
A Georgia appeals court has vacated an $8.5 million personal injury verdict awarded to a woman who fell while leaving her condo, saying the trial court wrongly allowed the jury to apportion fault to a nonparty that one of the defendants was vicariously liable for.
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March 17, 2026
A D.C. federal judge blasted top administration attorneys Tuesday for "shifting theories" of authority for the White House's East Wing ballroom project, saying the administration was likely looking for "an escape hatch" to avoid an injunction and promised to try to rule before above-ground work begins next month.
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March 17, 2026
The Tenth Circuit on Tuesday considered a contractor's request for the court to order a new trial after a Denver federal jury awarded construction design firm Aecom $5.25 million for a contract breach in a Colorado toll lanes project, questioning the contractor's litigation strategy.
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March 17, 2026
An Idaho tribe says the U.S. Forest Service violated bedrock environmental laws that provide first lines of defense for its rights in approving a $2 billion gold mining project within the Boise and Payette national forests, arguing it failed to consider any alternative methods for the endeavor.
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March 17, 2026
A Connecticut appeals court on Tuesday affirmed most of a $16.8 million recklessness verdict favoring the owners of a party goods store against the city of Danbury for permitting, inspecting and clearing for occupancy a 30,000-square-foot building that violated city codes and could have collapsed during use.
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March 17, 2026
New York state transportation officials on Tuesday accused the Trump administration in federal court of wrongfully withholding $58.6 million for Manhattan's Second Avenue Subway expansion, jeopardizing yet another rail transit project in the Big Apple as an act of political retribution.
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March 17, 2026
Mississippi will offer energy storage facilities that use battery energy storage systems a property tax break for energy projects under a bill signed by the governor.
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March 17, 2026
An environmental inspector supported his claims that an engineering company and two related entities similarly paid day-rate workers without compensating them for their overtime, a Pennsylvania federal judge said, conditionally certifying a collective.
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March 16, 2026
The First Circuit on Monday mostly upheld a lower court's order blocking the Trump administration from enacting a "sweeping and unprecedented categorical 'freeze' of federal financial assistance," ruling that the states involved in the suit will likely successfully show that the federal government acted arbitrarily and capriciously.
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March 16, 2026
A federal magistrate judge has declined to pause discovery pending arbitration in an Illinois-based community bank's litigation seeking to determine the proper owner of $7 million it's holding in escrow for a Bulgarian natural gas construction project, saying he is not convinced a stay is warranted.
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March 16, 2026
Emerson College has been hit with a wrongful death lawsuit filed in Massachusetts state court by a relative of a construction worker who fell to his death while working on a historic Boston theater owned by the school.
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March 16, 2026
An Allegheny County Parks Department worker is suing Deere & Co. Inc. in Pennsylvania state court, alleging the parking brake on the backhoe he was using was too easy to activate by accident, leading to his injuries when the machine stopped abruptly while he was using it.
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March 13, 2026
Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including implications for the real estate sector from the war in Iran, what investors are saying about the market and specific asset classes, and a look at where construction debt is ballooning.
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March 13, 2026
A Georgia appeals court broke from prior rulings and held that state law recognizes the horizontal alter ego theory of liability between sibling companies, upholding a roughly $900,000 verdict against two related turf installation companies involved in a contract dispute with their supplier.
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March 13, 2026
On the final day of their annual regular session, Florida lawmakers passed a bill that imposes a variety of preemptions on local governments' land use review after they removed parts that threatened Miami's Urban Development Boundary but left in a provision that clears a path for a controversial project in Miami Beach.
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March 13, 2026
President Donald Trump signed two executive orders Friday that seek to get rid of certain regulations, with the goal of making it easier to build affordable housing and obtain mortgages.
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March 13, 2026
EchoStar should have set aside some of the $40 billion it plans to make from spectrum sales to AT&T and SpaceX to repay the companies who were supposed to be building Dish Network's 5G network, which EchoStar and Dish have now abandoned, a think tank has told the FCC.
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March 13, 2026
The federal government's landlord told the federal judiciary it is "ill equipped" to have direct authority to maintain its buildings.
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March 13, 2026
Nixon Peabody LLP has hired two veteran real estate attorneys for counsel roles in its San Francisco and Washington, D.C., locations, the firm announced.
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March 13, 2026
A Texas chemical manufacturing company is owed a sales and use tax refund on the reusable containers used to ship its products to customers, a state appeals court panel ruled, upholding a trial court order.
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March 12, 2026
Sprawling artificial intelligence data centers will require larger shares of U.S. energy consumption in the coming years, but telecom networks also need more capacity and resilience if the U.S. wants to fuel an AI boom, a think tank said Thursday.