A week after Hurricane Harvey saturated Houston with historic rainfall and as neighborhoods in the western part of the city are still underwater, residents claim in a class action that governmental mismanagement of two dams is to blame for the flooding that’s forced them to evacuate their homes.
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A Houston man was arrested Monday on charges he tried to blow up a Confederate statue in a city park, after a park ranger caught him Saturday night hiding in bushes near the monument with nitroglycerine.
Read moreReviving a 2010 San Diego case, a Ninth Circuit panel found a Baja California property owner can pursue his claims against utility company Sempra Energy for conversion of his 672-acre ranch to build a $1 billion power plant.
Read moreA property-rights dispute denied Monday by the Supreme Court led Justice Neil Gorsuch to note in a brief dissent that the issue is one worth exploring with a stronger case.
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New Jersey officials have the right to condemn properties and issue easements on properties ravaged by Superstorm Sandy to rebuild dunes, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.
Read moreTexas Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed 50 bills last week, dissolving a committee studying women’s health needs and axing the only government transparency measure that survived the legislative session.
Read moreProgress on President Donald Trump’s pet project – construction of a wall along the entire U.S.-Mexico border – has stalled as Congress has withheld funding, but the government’s renewed interest in buying South Texas land is raising concerns it’s doing groundwork for the wall.
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A proposal to build a mall near the Mets’ CitiField in Queens hit a roadblock Tuesday when New York’s highest court ruled that state law does not permit the developers to build it, as parts of the property are technically parkland.
Read moreNine school districts have sued San Diego County for millions of dollars, claiming property tax payments to schools were miscalculated after a raft of legislation in Sacramento, including termination of the redevelopment agencies.
Read moreThe Supreme Court settled a circuit split Monday and ruled that a store manager convicted of selling products to make drugs is not required to forfeit store profits because he didn’t personally benefit from the sales.
Read moreDozens of Ohio homeowners sued the federal government to stop the use of their properties to make way for a proposed natural-gas pipeline, claiming the project will endanger the lives of area residents.
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The wife and son of a Missouri plant worker who died of cancer claim in court that the parts manufacturing plant is responsible for poisoning him and contaminating an entire community.
Read moreFound sealed and bound in twine, a Russian criminal case file has shaken up a New York case that touches on the mob, political corruption and pricey real estate. A federal judge here agreed Tuesday that the evidence is crucial to the government’s $230 million forfeiture action.
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Saying the eruption of raw sewage from their toilets was forceful enough to shake property foundations, 21 D.C. residents brought a federal complaint Monday against the local water authority.
Read moreA Superior Court judge could rule by Friday on whether U2 guitarist The Edge can break ground on a $79 million, five-home project on 151 acres in the Santa Monica Mountains, or whether it needs more environmental review.
Read moreFollowing a 2015 finding that California’s tax board mishandled $47.8 million in sales tax revenue, State Controller Betty Yee called on lawmakers Friday to strip the board of its tax administration, audit and compliance duties.
Read moreArizona is off the hook for extensive property damage caused by a deadly lightning-sparked wildfire in 2013, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.
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