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July 31, 2026
A Northeast Pennsylvania town's zoning code placed unacceptable burdens on the religious exercises of an Orthodox Jewish congregation using two properties for worship, instruction and communal living, a split Third Circuit panel said in an opinion ordering the properties to be reopened.
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July 31, 2026
Parsons Government Services Inc. asked a Colorado federal judge to pare three claims from a subcontractor's suit over a Marshall Islands project, arguing that the subcontractor failed to develop evidence for any of them during discovery.
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July 30, 2026
A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill on Thursday that would create a pilot program for the federal judiciary to obtain direct authority to maintain its buildings, which the judiciary says is desperately needed.
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July 30, 2026
Resolution Copper Co. said it established a $54 million trust that will provide annual funding to 11 Indigenous nations that have cultural and ancestral ties to a sacred Arizona worship site that's facing destruction to make way for a multibillion-dollar mining operation.
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July 28, 2026
A Colorado Court of Appeals panel Tuesday largely sidestepped the underlying statutory questions in a mountain town's appeal over the dismissal of its case seeking condemnation of an easement over a concert series, instead pondering why they were being asked to rule on the appeal at all.
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July 28, 2026
A D.C. federal judge has trimmed a lawsuit contesting federal approvals for a wind farm off the New York and New Jersey coasts while preserving claims that the government wrongly allowed the project to harm migratory bottlenose dolphin populations.
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July 28, 2026
An international tribunal has awarded U.S.-based construction aggregates company Vulcan Materials "negligible" damages in its arbitration accusing Mexico of improperly clamping down on its limestone quarrying activities in Quintana Roo, the company said Monday.
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July 27, 2026
Four limited liability companies defended total deductions of $245 million for conservation easements on land in two Wisconsin counties they donated in 2021, telling the U.S. Tax Court the properties had the potential to support nearly 300 oil production wells.
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July 27, 2026
Indigenous, environmental and preservation groups say a decision by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation to advance a proposed rulemaking notice for revisions to Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act will weaken tribal nations' roles in ensuring that their sacred burial sites and ancestral lands are protected.
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July 27, 2026
Environmental organizations asked a Washington federal judge Monday to overturn a nationwide permit the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reissued for oil and gas pipelines, accusing the agency of allowing companies to fast-track stream crossings without the appropriate considerations or safeguards.
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July 24, 2026
In this week's Taxation With Representation, Brookfield Asset Management acquires Aypa Power from funds managed by Blackstone Energy Transition Partners, Brookfield and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board buy LXP Industrial Trust, and Novagold Resources Inc. and Paulson Advisers LLC agree to give Novagold full ownership of Donlin Gold LLC.
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July 23, 2026
Brookfield Asset Management has agreed to acquire Aypa Power from funds managed by Blackstone Energy Transition Partners in a deal valuing the battery storage developer at about $7 billion, with Kirkland & Ellis LLP and White & Case LLP advising.
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July 22, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service improperly denied a Georgia partnership a $6 million charitable contribution deduction it claimed for the donation of a conservation easement, the partnership told the U.S. Tax Court, disputing the agency's assertion of an income tax underpayment and penalties.
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July 22, 2026
Washington, D.C., will allow a new way to appeal the fair market value of properties transferred for no or nominal consideration under legislation that took effect after the end of a required congressional review period.
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July 21, 2026
A Texas appeals court on Tuesday revived claims brought by the former CEO of Houston-based Whitestone REIT accusing his ex-employer of ousting him without cause, saying that the REIT failed to show it should win as a matter of law.
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July 21, 2026
The Internal Revenue Service is trying to disallow a partnership donor's $19.1 million charitable deduction for a Georgia conservation easement with limited expert testimony, the partnership told the U.S. Tax Court, arguing that approach violates the rules governing valuation cases.
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July 21, 2026
A Minnesota childcare center that missed a filing deadline related to a property tax exemption for educational institutions should not have been allowed to appeal the matter to the state tax court, a county told the state Supreme Court, urging it to review the case.
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July 20, 2026
Environmental and community groups asked a Texas federal judge Friday to grant them summary judgment in their lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's waiver of dozens of environmental and other federal laws to speed border wall construction across roughly 430 miles, arguing it's a clear violation of the major questions doctrine.
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July 17, 2026
A Connecticut municipal assessor did not have the authority to terminate a property tax break for forest use that was erroneously granted, the state Supreme Court said Friday, suggesting that state lawmakers could clarify the law on the matter.
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July 17, 2026
The Federal Circuit issued two of the year's most consequential trade secret rulings within days of each other, wiping out Insulet's victory in a wearable insulin patch pump case while reopening a software company's path to potentially larger damages in a dispute with Ford Motor Co. Here, Law360 highlights the biggest trade secret decisions so far this year.
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July 17, 2026
A consultant accused a Colorado investment firm and its founder of withholding more than $114,000 and reneging on promises to pay roughly $324,000 in deal fees after he helped secure a planned $108 million acquisition, according to a state court filing.
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July 16, 2026
A Colorado mountain community's housing impact fee methodology for residential homes survived a challenge from a Texas property developer attempting to overturn a roughly $250,000 permit fee for an 11,300-square-foot home after the Colorado Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the fee complies with state law.
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July 16, 2026
A Minnesota property owned by a church and leased to a nonprofit organization doesn't qualify for a tax break as a house of worship, the state's tax court said, but a break may be allowed for its use as a public charity.
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July 14, 2026
A single zoning board member's objection to tree clearing cannot be the basis for a small Massachusetts town to deny a permit for a solar array, the state's highest court ruled Tuesday.
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July 14, 2026
Mayer Brown LLP said Monday it has hired a real estate transactional lawyer in Los Angeles who formerly worked as a partner at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP.