/construction?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Construction Copyright 2025 ĂŰĚŇĘÓƵ. en-US Fri, 16 May 2025 23:17:28 +0000 /construction/articles/2341374?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /construction/articles/2341374 Catch up on this past week's key developments by state from Law360 Real Estate Authority — including attorney insights into the "Gold Card" visa program, the hospitality sector's reaction to tariffs, and the path from in-house attorney to private practice.  Fri, 16 May 2025 22:11:14 +0000 /construction/articles/2341496?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /construction/articles/2341496 Eurofinsa SA has asked a D.C. federal court for permission to begin seizing the Gabonese Republic's assets as the Spanish company that specializes in global infrastructure projects looks to enforce a nearly $18 million arbitral award against the African country. Fri, 16 May 2025 22:04:05 +0000 /construction/articles/2341265?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /construction/articles/2341265 The government of Laos, as it attempts to enforce some $5 million in arbitral awards related to a failed casino venture, still has not proven that the case should be decided in U.S. federal court in the Northern Mariana Islands, one of the companies owing the money said Friday. Fri, 16 May 2025 16:11:52 +0000 /construction/articles/2340987?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /construction/articles/2340987 Frost Brown Todd LLP added a litigator from Grant Herrmann Schwartz & Klinger LLP to the firm's business and commercial litigation practice, as it expands from its stronghold in the Midwest. Fri, 16 May 2025 15:10:39 +0000 /construction/articles/2341009?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /construction/articles/2341009 A Texas federal judge erred when he refused to let several government contractors and the Sierra Club intervene in a lawsuit that blocked the use of border wall funding for anything other than new barrier construction, the Fifth Circuit ruled Thursday. Fri, 16 May 2025 13:31:21 +0000 /construction/articles/2340862?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /construction/articles/2340862 Hollywood actress Susan Sarandon has resolved a dispute with a contractor that oversaw construction and maintenance for her $2 million sustainable Vermont retreat, which featured a geothermal heating system she claimed was less efficient due to missing insulation, according to a filing in Massachusetts federal court. Fri, 16 May 2025 12:28:28 +0000 /construction/articles/2337624?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /construction/articles/2337624 The criminal justice decisions the U.S. Supreme Court will announce in the coming weeks will reveal whether last term’s fractured decision-making has continued, an important data point as the justices’ alignment seems to correlate with who benefits from a case’s outcome, says Sharon Fairley at the University of Chicago Law School. Fri, 16 May 2025 11:22:21 +0000 /construction/articles/2339525?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /construction/articles/2339525 A recent settlement of claims against law firm Eckert Seamans for allegedly abetting a Ponzi scheme underscores the continuing threat of clients who seek to exploit their lawyers in perpetrating fraud, and the critical importance of preemptive measures to avoid these clients, say attorneys at Lockton Companies. Thu, 15 May 2025 22:41:10 +0000 /construction/articles/2340638?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /construction/articles/2340638 Members of a Wisconsin tribe are urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to deny Enbridge Energy Inc. a permit that will allow it to reroute its Line 5 pipeline around and upstream its reservation, arguing that, if allowed, hundreds of downstream wetlands and streams would be polluted by the project. Thu, 15 May 2025 19:32:23 +0000 /construction/articles/2340688?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /construction/articles/2340688 Current and former Lennar Corp. employees should have to individually arbitrate a proposed class action claiming the construction company loaded its 401(k) plan with excessive fees and lackluster investment options, a Florida federal magistrate judge recommended, finding the plan's arbitration provision doesn't conflict with federal benefits law. Thu, 15 May 2025 18:54:02 +0000 /construction/articles/2340571?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /construction/articles/2340571 A Toshiba subsidiary lost a bid to have a breach-of-contract case related to an upgrade of a Michigan hydroelectric power plant tried by a judge instead of a jury, the court rejecting an attempt to invoke a parent company's waiver of its right to a jury trial. Thu, 15 May 2025 18:20:01 +0000 /construction/articles/2340813?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /construction/articles/2340813 The Ohio tax appeals board didn't err in determining that a couple's home was correctly assessed at $450,000 based on its 2020 sale price, a state appeals court said in an opinion released Thursday. Thu, 15 May 2025 18:01:18 +0000 /construction/articles/2340817?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /construction/articles/2340817 Lithium battery recycler Li-Cycle asked a New York bankruptcy judge to recognize its Canadian insolvency, saying the current political climate has made investors wary of infusing money needed to tap a $475 million U.S. federal loan. Thu, 15 May 2025 18:00:07 +0000 /construction/articles/2335837?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /construction/articles/2335837 The president’s recent order overhauling the Federal Acquisition Regulation, which both contractors and agencies rely on to ensure predictability and consistency in federal procurement, lacks key details about its implementation, which will likely eliminate many safeguards that ensure contractors are treated fairly and that procurements are awarded in a reasonable manner, say attorneys at Miles & Stockbridge. Thu, 15 May 2025 17:02:00 +0000 /construction/articles/2315231?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /construction/articles/2315231 Teaching business law to college students has rekindled my sense of purpose as a lawyer — I am more mindful of the importance of the rule of law and the benefits of our common law system, which helps me maintain a clearer perspective on work, says David Feldman at Feldman Legal Advisors. Thu, 15 May 2025 16:47:29 +0000 /construction/articles/2340706?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /construction/articles/2340706 A New York federal judge has determined that the federal government's mistakenly filed memo in litigation over Manhattan's congestion pricing program is privileged and cannot be cited in the parties' arguments, but the memo won't be sealed because it's already been widely reported on. Thu, 15 May 2025 16:24:02 +0000 /construction/articles/2340708?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /construction/articles/2340708 Erie Insurance is seeking to make the companies that demolished two smokestacks at a former Western Pennsylvania coal-fired power plant pay $375,000 for damage that flying dust, debris and shock waves did to a neighboring property, according to a lawsuit filed in state court. Wed, 14 May 2025 20:47:53 +0000 /construction/articles/2340013?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /construction/articles/2340013 The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will allocate more than $1.1 billion in Indian Housing Block Grant funding to support affordable housing efforts in Native American tribal communities, HUD announced Tuesday. Wed, 14 May 2025 20:42:35 +0000 /construction/articles/2339315?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /construction/articles/2339315 The U.S. Department of Agriculture is standing by its assertion that two Native Alaskan villages are not tribal lands in the same way as reservations in its bid to convince a court to side with it in a fight over $70 million in broadband funds the agency is accused of wrongly giving away. Wed, 14 May 2025 19:55:02 +0000 /construction/articles/2340177?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /construction/articles/2340177 Nearly 150 members of Congress have thrown their support behind 12 state attorneys general suing to halt the Trump administration's "emergency" tariffs, arguing they far exceed the statutory authority of a president.