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March 18, 2026
Native American rights groups are backing four Apache women's bid to have the Supreme Court halt a 2,500-acre Arizona land transfer, arguing an Indigenous worship site on the property is there because of U.S. policies designed to strip tribal nations of their homelands and suppress their religions.
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March 18, 2026
Two Washington tribes are asking a federal court to reconsider a decision that denied their bid to side aside $22 million in salmon hatchery funding, arguing that despite National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration claims to the contrary, they've never said they're ineligible for the grant money.
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March 18, 2026
A conservation group asked a D.C. federal judge Wednesday to declare that an upcoming U.S. Department of the Interior meeting to exempt oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico from the Endangered Species Act was called illegally, arguing that the meeting could ultimately result in species' extinction.
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March 17, 2026
GCI Communication Corp. won't have to continue to provide service to an Alaskan Native village in the state's eroding coastal lowland after its population moved on to new territory that was gained in a land swap with the federal government, the Federal Communications Commission has ruled.
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March 17, 2026
The Trump administration is taking executive power into uncharted territory by asserting it can override state law to restart a California oil pipeline, but such an expansion of presidential authority over energy infrastructure may invite skepticism from courts.
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March 17, 2026
The burgeoning prediction market has exploded the definition of what qualifies as confidential corporate information that employees could misuse for personal gain, leaving companies scrambling to update internal policies and guidelines, compliance experts say.
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March 17, 2026
An Idaho tribe says the U.S. Forest Service violated bedrock environmental laws that provide first lines of defense for its rights in approving a $2 billion gold mining project within the Boise and Payette national forests, arguing it failed to consider any alternative methods for the endeavor.
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March 17, 2026
Oklahoma and its governor have failed to show that Tulsa is incapable of adequately representing its interests as the city settles a jurisdictional lawsuit brought by the Muscogee (Creek) Nation over law enforcement, a federal judge has ruled as he closed the case.
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March 17, 2026
Plaintiffs suing the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for rescinding a COVID-era eviction rule without notice and comment dropped their case Monday, saying the agency had agreed to "indefinitely delay" the rule change's implementation and convert it from an interim rule to a proposed rule for now.
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March 17, 2026
Two New York counties must face a Cayuga Nation member's discrimination lawsuit in a dispute over 911 access, a federal district court judge determined, saying his allegations of slow response times are enough to allege an injury.
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March 16, 2026
The First Circuit on Monday mostly upheld a lower court's order blocking the Trump administration from enacting a "sweeping and unprecedented categorical 'freeze' of federal financial assistance," ruling that the states involved in the suit will likely successfully show that the federal government acted arbitrarily and capriciously.
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March 16, 2026
The Trump administration on Monday asked a Massachusetts federal judge to toss a pair of lawsuits challenging a change to eligibility requirements for student loan forgiveness, calling the potential repercussions from the new rule "speculative."
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March 16, 2026
Federal attorneys told the D.C. federal court that the U.S. Department of the Interior has reinstated a prior legal opinion concluding that North Dakota, not the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, owns mineral rights beneath a portion of the Missouri River flowing through the Fort Berthold Reservation.
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March 16, 2026
Environmental advocacy groups and localities seeking to revive their suit accusing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of illegally stripping $3 billion from a congressionally created program told the D.C. Circuit on Monday that the government's own documentation indicated that the funding should have remained in place when Congress axed "unobligated" funding.
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March 16, 2026
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has approved regional grid operator Southwest Power Pool's plan to combine its planning and power plant hookup processes, a move that a pair of FERC commissioners hope will be replicated across the U.S.
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March 16, 2026
A coalition of tribes and conservation groups has asked an Arizona district court to vacate an Interior Department decision that allowed construction of a 520-mile power line route to proceed, arguing the federal agency treated cultural property "as an afterthought" and ignored the effects on the San Pedro Valley.
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March 16, 2026
A group of Apache women are asking Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan to block the federal government's transfer of a sacred Apache worship site within Arizona's Tonto National Forest to a copper mining company, arguing that this could be the last chance to prevent a generational tragedy.
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March 13, 2026
President Donald Trump's order imposing 10% tariffs on countries worldwide is unlawful because it conflicts with the international payments authority he immediately invoked to justify it, two dozen states argued Friday while asking the U.S. Court of International Trade to strike down or block the regime.
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March 13, 2026
An Oregon federal judge has ruled that the U.S. Department of the Interior's termination of $14 million in grants to conservation groups was likely unconstitutional and has granted a preliminary injunction telling the DOI to give the money back to the nonprofits.
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March 13, 2026
A coalition of federal California lawmakers have introduced legislation that would transfer 860 acres from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management into trust for the Pechanga Band of Indians.
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March 13, 2026
A Native American rights group and a Massachusetts tribe are backing a Second Circuit bid to reverse a decision that a New York Indigenous nation does not have eel-fishing rights free of state regulatory fees, arguing that they have an interest in ensuring inherent aboriginal rights are protected.
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March 12, 2026
The Fourth Circuit on Thursday revived employment retaliation claims against Harrah's and Caesars Entertainment by a former table games dealer, finding the lower court abused its discretion by making "speculative assertions" about the need to add as a defendant a related tribal gaming enterprise.
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March 12, 2026
School district plaintiffs and attorneys general have told a California federal judge they plan to seek sanctions against Meta Platforms Inc. in the social media addiction multidistrict litigation for the tech giant's "extremely belated production" of over 73,841 documents downgraded off privilege logs, months after fact discovery closed.
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March 12, 2026
Five federal agencies have won their bid to throw out a D.C. court lawsuit brought by the Sierra Club and other environmental and science groups over the Trump administration's decision to remove U.S. government webpages that shared educational information about the environment.
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March 12, 2026
The Tenth Circuit has confirmed that the historical boundaries of Citizen Potawatomi Nation land in Oklahoma is not a reservation under the language of a late 19th century treaty between the tribe and the federal government in a dispute over criminal jurisdiction.