Ali Sullivan

A massive and storied emerald smuggled into the United States two decades ago is one step closer to returning to Brazil after a D.C. federal judge granted the U.S. Department of Justice's request to forfeit the gem to its home country.

A building management services company's challenge to the certification of an International Union of Operating Engineers local got a frosty reception from a D.C. Circuit panel Friday, with one judge remarking that he had "no idea" what the company was talking about.

A D.C. Circuit panel on Monday revisited a challenge to federal regulations requiring fishermen to fund the cost of compliance monitors aboard their ships, grappling with how to interpret the federal statute underlying the regulations following the demise of the Chevron deference.

The legal team representing former Trump administration adviser Peter Navarro argued in D.C. federal court Friday that some 300 emails from Navarro's time at the White House are purely personal and should stay out of the hands of the National Archives.

The full D.C. Circuit will revisit an appeal implicating the court's authority to review the Federal Election Commission's decisions on campaign finance complaints when those decisions rest on commissioners' so-called prosecutorial discretion.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is facing a legal challenge in the D.C. Circuit over recent equity trading regulatory changes that allow stocks to be quoted in half-penny increments and lower access fee caps. 

A new lawsuit in D.C. federal court is taking aim at allegedly "unlicensed and illegal cannabis dispensaries" in the district, saying the unregulated market is squeezing out legal businesses.

A D.C. federal judge on Friday set a July 2026 jury trial date in a $30 million wrongful-death lawsuit over the fatal police shooting of Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

A Ukrainian bank and Russia agreed Wednesday to pause litigation that seeks to enforce a $1.1 billion arbitral award against the Russian government amid efforts to annul the award in France, reaching the deal after a federal judge in Washington expressed concerns about the "thorny political issues" inherent in the case.

The federal government is defending its power to require fishermen to partially fund the cost of compliance monitors aboard their ships, arguing to the D.C. Circuit that the demise of the so-called Chevron deference doesn't change the fact that federal law authorizes the at-sea monitoring rules.