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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.
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July 13, 2026
President Donald Trump on Monday rolled back federal protections on the Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monuments in Utah, a move that environmental groups said they will fight to block in court.
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July 13, 2026
The U.S. government told a federal judge that it's actually still considering plans to turn a New Jersey warehouse into an immigrant detention center, a week after it reported it no longer intended to pursue the challenged project.
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July 13, 2026
Cox Castle & Nicholson LLP announced Monday that an experienced real estate attorney who founded and led Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch LLP's Native American practice has joined the firm's San Diego office as a partner.
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July 13, 2026
McCathern Shokouhi Evans PLLC has launched a real estate transactions practice and has hired the general counsel of a Dallas-based real estate development firm to lead it.
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July 10, 2026
The Trump administration on Friday said it's scrapping a long-standing definition of "harm" for the Endangered Species Act that included habitat degradation, with environmental groups promising a legal challenge and warning the change will put imperiled species at greater risk of extinction.
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July 09, 2026
California extended a method for valuing intercounty pipeline rights-of-way that assumes full cash value if certain conditions are met under a bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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July 08, 2026
Archer Aviation has asked a California federal judge to throw out what's left of rival electric air taxi-maker Joby Aviation's trade secret suit, saying Joby had ignored the court's instructions to proceed with narrowed claims and instead tried to expand its allegations without adding more substance.
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July 08, 2026
The second phase of the federal opportunity zones program, often referred to as OZ 2.0, will differ from the program's initial iteration in key ways that present unique legal considerations for developers of projects in held-over zones, according to attorneys.
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July 08, 2026
An Oregon church leader's residence that is also used for storage of religious products and other activities does not qualify for a property tax exemption as a house of worship, the state tax court said, affirming the finding of a local assessor.
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July 06, 2026
The government told a federal court in Washington state Monday it wants out of a lawsuit brought by the Lummi Nation over a federally funded broadband project that disturbed the remains of the tribe's ancestors, saying it never officially approved the construction activities or released any funds for it.
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July 06, 2026
Following several U.S. Supreme Court terms teeming with reversals and rebukes of lower appeals courts, the justices this term found fault less often with rulings by circuit judges, who are likely becoming better attuned to the conservative supermajority, attorneys say.