July 12, 2024
In the two weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Chevron deference, the landmark decision has emerged as a live issue in dozens of administrative challenges, with federal courts already pausing agency regulations expanding LGBTQ+ rights in education and healthcare and with a wave of parties seeking to use the new decision to win their cases.
May 17, 2023
The Hoopa Valley Tribe will have to wait to seek a quick win in its suit challenging the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's management of California's Trinity River, a California federal judge has ruled, citing efficiency concerns in the "highly complex case."
April 18, 2023
The Hoopa Valley Tribe is imploring a California federal judge to keep alive its suit challenging the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation's operation of California's Trinity River, telling the court that new contracts for water diverted from the river strip the tribe and its fishery of critical protections.
March 24, 2023
A California federal judge rejected the Hoopa Valley Tribe's bid to halt a winter water release from a dam on the Trinity River, ruling the benefits of the early outflow outweighed harm to the tribe's culturally important salmon fishing.
February 28, 2023
A new winter water flow management project implemented in California's Trinity River is best for the region's fish populations, the U.S. Department of the Interior and its Bureau of Reclamation said, slamming a California tribe's bid to block the flow modifications as "generalized and conjectural."
February 15, 2023
A California tribe has renewed its bid to block the implementation of a winter water flow management project for the Trinity River, this time telling a California federal court that the U.S. Department of the Interior and its Bureau of Reclamation shirked the National Environmental Policy Act in approving the plan.
February 08, 2023
A California federal judge won't block the implementation of a winter water flow management project for the Trinity River, finding that the Hoopa Valley Tribe does not have ongoing veto power over changes to the river flow.
January 04, 2023
California's largest agricultural water district on Wednesday urged a California federal judge to toss a Native American tribe's suit accusing the federal government of violating its tribal sovereignty and fishing rights, saying the Hoopa Valley Tribe isn't entitled to court-ordered relief.
December 19, 2022
The Hoopa Valley Tribe has asked a California federal judge to block a winter water flow management project for the Trinity River, arguing the project deviates from a long-standing agreement to ensure minimum water flows for the river's fishery and does not have the tribe's required support.
November 04, 2022
A California tribe has renewed its lawsuit accusing the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation of violating its sovereignty and fishing rights in California's Trinity River after settlement talks with the Biden administration collapsed.