GRASS VALLEY, Calif. (LN) — The Eastern District of California granted partial summary judgment against Rise Grass Valley, Inc., finding the company liable under the Clean Water Act for discharging pollutants from its flooded Idaho-Maryland Mine into Wolf C...
A coalition of 24 states and the District of Columbia, co-led by New York Attorney General Letitia James, sued the Trump administration Tuesday to block a Department of Education rule slashing federal loan limits for health care students, arguing the restri...
Twenty-two state attorneys general filed a lawsuit today challenging a U.S. Department of Education rule that narrows the federal definition of "professional degree" for student loan eligibility, arguing the agency exceeded its statutory authority.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court reversed the Commonwealth Court, holding that a build-to-suit lease for a State Police headquarters constitutes "public work" under the Prevailing Wage Act because public funds paid for at least part of the construction.
A coalition of 24 states sued the Trump Administration to block a Department of Education rule that narrows the definition of “professional degree,” drastically reducing federal student loan caps for healthcare workers.
A federal judge in Oregon vacated the Bureau of Land Management’s approval of a logging plan, ruling the agency failed to adequately protect old-growth trees in Western Oregon’s Coast Range.
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that the Ligas consent decree prohibits Illinois from using state-operated developmental centers for interim crisis placements of class members with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
The Northern District of California ruled that a motion to transfer grant-termination claims to the Court of Federal Claims triggers a partial automatic stay under 28 U.S.C. § 1491(d)(4), but allows challenges to the underlying Department of Energy memo to...
A federal judge ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s biological opinion on the pesticide malathion was arbitrary because it relied on flawed usage data and species range estimates, vacating key parts of the agency’s jeopardy and critical habitat...
The Trump administration has begun issuing refunds to importers following a Supreme Court ruling that invalidated a previous tariff policy, while a separate appeals court has paused a lower court decision declaring the current 10% global tariffs illegal.
The state’s highest court held that trial courts must interpret utility rate settlement agreements for ambiguity before deferring to agency discretion, remanding a dispute over $17 million in storm recovery costs.
The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled that trial courts must interpret utility settlement agreements de novo to determine if they are ambiguous before deferring to a regulatory agency’s interpretation, reversing a lower court that had deferred to the Public U...
The Michigan Court of Appeals ruled that Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald’s legal defense in a Freedom of Information Act case was frivolous, reversing the trial court’s denial of sanctions against her.
A federal judge has ruled that the Pipeline Safety Act does not completely preempt a West Virginia whistleblower’s state-law claim for retaliatory discharge, allowing the case to proceed in state court.
A federal district court in Kansas ruled that a railroad’s adverse possession claim is completely preempted by federal law, dismissing the property owner’s quiet title action but allowing the plaintiff 21 days to refile under the Interstate Commerce Commiss...
Nationwide mail access to mifepristone remains available after the Supreme Court extended a temporary stay blocking a Fifth Circuit order that would have required in-person dispensing, pausing the ruling until May 14.
The Washington Court of Appeals held that environmental groups have standing to challenge the state Department of Natural Resources for failing to designate critical habitat for the western gray squirrel, reversing a trial court’s dismissal of their lawsuit.
The New Jersey Appellate Division held that the state’s Tort Claims Act does not require the Office of the Attorney General to defend or indemnify an assistant county prosecutor facing attorney disciplinary charges for failing to disclose exculpatory eviden...
A Sixth Circuit panel held that the Tennessee Valley Authority's mid-litigation release of documents was a voluntary agency choice — not a third-party-driven act — making a watchdog group eligible for attorneys' fees under FOIA's fee-shifting provision.
A federal judge permanently enjoined the National Endowment for the Humanities from enforcing mass grant terminations, ruling the action violated the First Amendment, the Fifth Amendment’s equal protection guarantee, and exceeded statutory authority.