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March 25, 2026
A California state jury that found Meta and Google liable Wednesday for harming the mental health of a woman who says she became addicted to their social media platforms as a child delivered a second blow later in the day, awarding $3 million in punitive damages on top of a $3 million compensatory award.
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March 24, 2026
A D.C. federal judge has granted bids by a Native American tribe and an environmental group to intervene in a Nevada geothermal company's suit challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's listing of the Dixie Valley toad as an endangered species.
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March 24, 2026
The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded more than $21 million in grants to fund 84 projects for 61 tribal nations, an effort it says will help reduce roadway fatalities and serious injuries on Indigenous lands.
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March 24, 2026
Michigan appellate judges have reinstated a legal malpractice action the Kewadin Casinos Gaming Authority brought against Patterson Earnhart Real Bird & Wilson LLP, which the organization's tribe had hired as counsel for a failed attempt to open two casinos, ruling the case is not barred by tribal sovereign immunity.
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March 24, 2026
A Utah federal judge has determined that split estate lands within the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation are not Indian Country, saying that decades of precedent in the dispute over the Ute Indian Tribe's jurisdiction backs the decision.
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March 24, 2026
A D.C. federal judge has sided with the U.S. Department of the Interior and an oil and gas group in a suit by environmentalists challenging a 2020 final rule on air pollution, finding that the rule isn't arbitrary or capricious, and falls within the agency's discretion.
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March 23, 2026
Baby carrier maker Mabe LLC is asking an Idaho federal judge to either dismiss a rival's patent infringement suit or issue a $16 million bond, saying the litigation is based on invalid patents and violates the state's law targeting bad faith intellectual property suits.
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March 23, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared skeptical Monday of Mississippi's law allowing state election officials to count mail-in ballots that arrive up to five days after Election Day, with the justices divided ideologically over whether historical practices or legislative history should control the outcome of the case.
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March 23, 2026
Tennessee regulators are asking the Sixth Circuit to review an order barring them from taking action against Kalshi's sports contracts, marking the latest event contract dispute to reach an appeals court.
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March 23, 2026
A bipartisan pair of senators are looking to shutter sports contracts on prediction market platforms such as Kalshi and Polymarket, introducing a bill Monday to clarify that these types of offerings are under the jurisdiction of state gambling laws, not the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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March 23, 2026
A New Mexico school board that is suing the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission argued Friday in federal court that the EEOC lacked the quorum needed to initiate a race-discrimination charge and investigation of the board, because President Donald Trump removed two commissioners last year.
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March 23, 2026
The Trump administration said Monday that it would pay TotalEnergies nearly $1 billion to give up a pair of offshore wind leases in exchange for the French energy giant sinking the cash into U.S. oil and gas development.
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March 23, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up a Washington Indigenous nation's petition that could have led to federal recognition in a centuries-old struggle to regain the status after it was stripped by the George W. Bush administration.
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March 20, 2026
The federal government is on the hook for more than $2 million in attorney fees following a settlement with a Phoenix-based church over its right to use the psychedelic beverage ayahuasca in religious ceremonies, a divided Ninth Circuit panel said in an unpublished opinion Friday.
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March 20, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court will kick off its March oral arguments session by reviewing disputes over the validity of state laws allowing late-arriving mail-in ballots to be counted in federal elections and whether "last-mile" delivery drivers qualify for the transportation worker exemption to the Federal Arbitration Act.
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March 20, 2026
A Kentucky federal judge has determined that a constitutional challenge to the U.S. Department of Transportation's more than 40-year-old Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program for women- and minority-owned businesses is now moot since the Trump administration overhauled the program last year.
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March 20, 2026
A Nevada state judge temporarily blocked prediction market operator Kalshi from offering sports, election and entertainment related event contracts in the Silver State, finding regulators reasonably likely to prevail in an action alleging its event-based contracts violate gaming laws.
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March 20, 2026
A coalition of nonprofits is asking a Massachusetts federal court to block a U.S. Interior Department order that instructed National Park Service staff to remove signage that gives information about slavery, Indigenous history and climate change, arguing that it imposes a broad campaign of censoring disfavored history and science.
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March 20, 2026
A Trump administration demand for years of college admissions data on race and sex, with just a few months' notice, has "created a perfect storm" for schools scrambling to comply, a coalition of academic organizations has told a Massachusetts federal judge in support of a bid to delay implementation of the new survey.
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March 19, 2026
An Alaska federal judge has stayed the Trump administration's cancellation of a conservation right-of-way issued to a tribal group seeking access to about 1 million acres of key habitat for a caribou herd within the vast National Petroleum Reserve located on the state's North Slope.
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March 19, 2026
A coalition of state and local governments on Thursday became the latest group to ask that the D.C. Circuit overrule the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's rescission last month of its long-held position on the danger greenhouse gases pose to public health.
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March 19, 2026
Major League Baseball said Thursday that it has struck an exclusive licensing deal with Polymarket to bolster the brand and promote the "integrity" of the baseball-focused prediction markets on the platform, and separately reached a first-of-its-kind information-sharing agreement with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
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March 19, 2026
Three men who were found to have used violence against their female partners in separate incidents were correctly convicted under a federal law prohibiting domestic abusers from possessing guns, the Ninth Circuit said, agreeing with other circuits that such restrictions were legal.
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March 19, 2026
The U.S.-Israel war on Iran that is roiling global energy markets underscores the need for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to approve gas infrastructure projects more quickly so that energy prices can be kept in check, FERC Chair Laura Swett said Thursday.
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March 19, 2026
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan on Thursday declined to block a federal government land transfer in Arizona after four Apache women looked to stop the exchange on behalf of their daughters, arguing that the area contains a site used for a coming of age ceremony that will be destroyed.