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...
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.
A federal court in Washington held Thursday that farmers and rural businesses whose REAP grant applications sat unprocessed for over 18 months could not sue the Agriculture Department because they had bypassed a mandatory administrative-appeals process...
The Eighth Circuit vacated the FCC’s digital discrimination rule, holding that the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act does not authorize disparate impact liability and limiting regulation to the subscriber-provider relationship.
California joined 21 states in urging the D.C. Circuit to block the Trump administration’s appeal of a court order requiring the Office of Management and Budget to restore a public database tracking federal spending.
A Supreme Court ruling on asylum review earlier this year gave the Sixth Circuit the hook it needed to resolve a question it had previously declined to answer.
A Guatemalan asylum seeker's late-filed petition gave the Sixth Circuit its first chance to resolve a tolling question the Supreme Court left open in Riley v. Bondi.
A federal judge refused to reseal the identities of six DOGE agents who were given access to sensitive federal personnel systems, ruling that the government's new arguments were ones it could have — and should have — raised months earlier.
A state appellate court rejected challenges to nitrogen and phosphorus discharge limits for a wastewater facility that had already pushed the Rogue River onto the EPA's impaired-waterways list.
A $1.25 million Missouri jury verdict and more than 100,000 pending lawsuits hang on whether federal pesticide law shuts the courthouse door on state failure-to-warn claims.
A renewable-energy developer and its farmer-clients sued the USDA a second time after losing the first round, only to run into the same jurisdictional walls — and one they never saw coming.
A private vocational school argued that a one-year clock barred the state from clawing back years of overbilling — but the court held that clock was never ticking.
A three-judge panel concluded broadcasters had not shown the court likely has jurisdiction — and that a California injunction may have already reduced their claimed harm.
A California federal judge expanded an existing injunction to block three major federal departments from imposing grant conditions on municipal plaintiffs who sued the Trump administration.
A six-year dispute over three days of port closures during the pandemic ends with a federal appeals court upholding the agency's freight-fluidity framework for evaluating carrier fees.
A D.C. federal judge threw out the last surviving claim in a suit challenging the FDA's 2022 refusal to restore a permissive enforcement regime for homeopathic drugs, ruling the plaintiffs could not tie their economic injuries to the specific agency action...