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April 22, 2026
A Georgia attorney's professional liability insurer owes no coverage for an underlying suit alleging the lawyer conspired with a client to enrich themselves from a litigation funding company by claiming a fictitious suit over a canceled FEMA contract, an Atlanta federal court has ruled, finding that making misrepresentations does not constitute "professional services" under the policy.
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April 22, 2026
A Philadelphia-based developer has told a New Jersey state court that South Jersey power broker George Norcross and his attorney brother's opposition to his bid to amend his suit is really an effort to get an untimely ruling.
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April 22, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Fluor Corp. can be held liable for a veteran's state-based injury claims stemming from a 2016 suicide bombing in Afghanistan, saying his claims are not preempted by the Federal Tort Claims Act.
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April 21, 2026
Archer Aviation has told a federal court that rival electric air-taxi company Joby Aviation cannot ditch counterclaims alleging Joby concealed its China-based sourcing and misclassified imports to evade tariffs, while Joby accuses Archer of riding its coattails and trying to reframe the narrative around its own shady dealings.
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April 21, 2026
Nursing home operator ProMedica Health Systems Inc. has succeeded in its bid to unseal government briefs in a whistleblower case over alleged problems caused by understaffing at its facilities, with a Pennsylvania federal judge ruling that a presumption of openness with court records trumped the government's concerns about disclosure of its investigative methods.
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April 21, 2026
A Washington, D.C.-based watchdog organization accused former Florida Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of improperly funding her 2022 reelection bid to the U.S. House of Representatives, saying she orchestrated a complex straw donor scheme to funnel $725,000 in Haitian "dark money" into her campaign.
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April 21, 2026
A man accused of swindling Medicare out of nearly half a billion dollars was simply trying to make it easier for doctors to navigate labyrinthine Medicare regulations to get orthotic braces approved for their patients, his attorney told jurors in Florida federal court Tuesday.
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April 21, 2026
Immigration officials said a California federal court should toss a proposed class action from inmates alleging intolerable living conditions in a Mojave Desert processing center because the plaintiffs have sued the wrong defendants.
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April 21, 2026
A San Diego woman has pled guilty in California federal court to billing Medicare for nearly $51 million in fake prescriptions and trying to hide the scheme through money laundering and kickbacks to doctors.
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April 21, 2026
An association of builders failed to show it would succeed on its claims challenging a Biden-era executive order requiring labor agreements for all federal contracts exceeding $35 million, the Eleventh Circuit ruled, affirming a federal court's decision rejecting the group's request for an injunction.
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April 21, 2026
An attorney for the Federal Housing Finance Agency told the D.C. Circuit on Tuesday that the agency had clear authority to act in its own interest as conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the wake of the 2008 housing market crash rather than prioritize the interest of the companies' shareholders.
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April 21, 2026
Three weeks after the First Circuit declined to pause two orders blocking the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from cutting homelessness funding, HUD has dropped its appeal.
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April 21, 2026
A construction contractor told the Court of Federal Claims that it is not liable for $5.9 million in fines for the delayed construction of an ammunition facility in Israel because the U.S. government failed to consider mitigating concerns.
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April 21, 2026
The U.S. Department of Transportation said Monday it will invest $4.7 billion into rail improvement projects in Amtrak's Northeast Corridor, including rehabilitations for New York's Penn Station and Washington, D.C.'s Union Station.
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April 21, 2026
Chicago's transit agency has asked a federal judge to convert his recent temporary restraining order to a preliminary injunction that would block the Trump administration from refreezing $3 billion in funding for city train line upgrades while its lawsuit plays out, saying while work on the projects has been allowed to continue with the TRO, "that peace is fragile."
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April 20, 2026
A split Tenth Circuit panel on Monday refused to undo a Transportation and Security Administration determination that Frontier Airlines owes the agency nearly $5.4 million in unpaid security fees, agreeing with TSA that Frontier still owes fees on passengers who eventually canceled their flights.
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April 20, 2026
A divided Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court struck down a ban on Medicaid funding for abortions, declaring Monday that the ban violates a fundamental right to reproductive autonomy under the state's constitution and illegally discriminates on the basis of sex.
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April 20, 2026
A U.S. Court of Federal Claims judge has found the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs was justified in eliminating a call-center contractor from consideration after its "good enough" proposal failed to comply with the solicitation's explicit instructions.
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April 20, 2026
A coalition of nonprofits, university professors, federal contractors and subcontractors are seeking to block an executive order requiring government contractors to agree they won't engage in "racially discriminatory DEI activities," telling a Maryland federal court Monday that the directive will cause "irreparable harm" to the groups and their members.
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April 20, 2026
A group of former clerks for Federal Circuit Judge Pauline Newman, as well as former federal judges, have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the challenge to her suspension imposed by her colleagues.
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April 20, 2026
An organization that normally champions the Federal Communications Commission's E-rate program, which subsidizes internet service for schools and libraries, has told the agency it thinks its plans to consolidate bids into a single competitive portal is a bad idea.
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April 20, 2026
A NASA contracting officer lacked the authority to enter into a long-term contract with a movie production company, a Court of Federal Claims judge said, axing the company's claims that NASA breached an implied agreement to lease space at a Louisiana facility for 10 years.
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April 20, 2026
A change of plea hearing scheduled Monday afternoon in the second federal corruption trial of former Connecticut budget official Konstantinos M. Diamantis never materialized, with the parties emerging from chambers and leaving a Bridgeport courthouse without a judge entering the courtroom or going on the record.
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April 20, 2026
An Oregon federal judge struck down Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s efforts to enforce the agency's restrictions on gender-affirming care for minors, finding the restrictions unlawful and criticizing Kennedy's leadership and the policy declaration that introduced the changes.
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April 20, 2026
A man accused of pocketing $12 million as a part of a larger $140 million scheme to defraud public and private healthcare programs can't get out of a second trial, as the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review his case on Monday.