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March 09, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review a Guam community group's challenge to the U.S. Air Force's bid to explode expired munitions on the island, after a divided Ninth Circuit found the agency should have conducted an environmental review.
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March 06, 2026
Attorneys for the plaintiff in a landmark bellwether California trial in a suit accusing Instagram and YouTube of harming children's mental health rested their case Friday, opting not to call the plaintiff's mother to testify live despite the defense portraying her as the potential cause of the plaintiff's mental health struggles.
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March 06, 2026
A resolution to change the official name of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to "Eastern Cherokee Nation" has been rejected for now by the federally registered tribe's 15-member tribal council, whose members agreed to table the proposal until they get more community feedback.
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March 06, 2026
The federal government is urging a district court to deny an emergency bid by two Washington tribes that would temporarily block millions in tribal hatchery grants to 27 Pacific Indigenous nations, arguing that the only harm in the dispute would be in delaying the awards to the eligible tribes.
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March 06, 2026
The federal government is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn two Tenth Circuit decisions that determined a pair of Native American men can be convicted of simple assault under the Major Crimes Act in cases involving more serious charges, arguing that the "senseless result" can't be reconciled with the law's plain text.
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March 06, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge Friday ordered the Trump administration to step up its pace in restoring a disaster mitigation funding program, nearly three months after he ordered it to do so.
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March 05, 2026
The federal government wants to end litigation by environmental groups seeking to stop a mining company from expanding gold extraction efforts within an Alaska national park, telling a federal court that any alleged harm to the endangered beluga whales living in a nearby bay is speculative.
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March 05, 2026
A federal court judge has sided with California Gov. Gavin Newsom in a dispute over a tribal Class III gaming compact, saying the Morongo Band of Mission Indians failed to show an actual controversy with the state under Article III of the Constitution.
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March 05, 2026
A coalition of 24 states sued President Donald Trump's administration Thursday in the U.S. Court of International Trade to block global tariffs that the White House imposed shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an earlier round of tariffs.
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March 05, 2026
A California Indigenous nation is asking a federal district court to block the state's labor and safety departments from citing and enforcing civil penalties against one of its largest arms of tribal government, saying it is at risk of facing more than $200,000 in unlawful fines if the practice continues.
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March 05, 2026
U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, who has come under fire from Republicans in recent days, will vacate her position this month, President Donald Trump announced Thursday.
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March 04, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Washington state asked a Washington federal court on Wednesday to approve an estimated $668 million proposed settlement involving more than 100 parties for cleanup work on Seattle's Duwamish River.
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March 04, 2026
Eight young Alaskans urged the state's justices to revive litigation seeking to block the only permitted liquefied natural gas export project on the nation's Pacific coast, arguing they've sufficiently alleged the project's scale would cause "a colossal level of climate pollution" harming their constitutional rights to public trust resources.
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March 04, 2026
The Trump administration cannot strip tens of thousands of federal workers of their job protections without violating their right to due process and treading on Congress' territory, a coalition of labor groups argued Wednesday, filing their latest challenge to the administration's quest to make federal workers easier to fire.
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March 04, 2026
A Michigan federal judge has decided that transferring a miner's case challenging the establishment of the Chuckwalla National Monument out of her court is "not inappropriate," while also ruling that a slew of tribal nations and environmental groups may intervene in the lawsuit.
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March 04, 2026
The U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday approved former New Mexico Republican Congressman Steve Pearce to lead the Bureau of Land Management by an 11-9 vote, advancing that nominee to the full Senate for consideration in addition to two others.
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March 04, 2026
Conservation groups are looking to vacate the federal government's approval of operation expansion plans for a Montana coal mine at the center of years worth of past litigation, telling a federal court that the agencies "make a mockery of the required environmental review process."
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March 03, 2026
An Arizona federal judge has lifted a stay in a water rights lawsuit following a Ninth Circuit decision finding he prematurely sided with the Gila River Indian Community in a separate but similar suit when landowners appealed a summary judgment order favoring the tribal group.
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March 03, 2026
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency urged the Ninth Circuit on Tuesday to reverse a ruling that the EPA's current "optimal" level of fluoride in drinking water poses an unreasonable risk of lowering children's IQ, arguing that the trial judge improperly held his ruling in abeyance for years to await more scientific evidence.
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March 03, 2026
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must analyze how its revised water quality standards for cadmium would affect endangered species, a split Ninth Circuit ruled Tuesday, upholding a conservation organization's victory in a lawsuit over the agency's guidance tripling the levels of the heavy metal allowed in U.S. waters.
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March 03, 2026
The U.S. House voted Tuesday to direct land management agencies to study how they can ease the process for allowing broadband infrastructure to run through public lands.
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March 03, 2026
Two Washington tribes are looking to temporarily block the federal government from awarding millions in tribal hatchery grants to 27 Indigenous nations, arguing that they and the Pacific salmon will suffer irreparable harm if the money is disbursed without their communities being able to apply for the funding.
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March 03, 2026
An Oklahoma federal judge has denied a bid by the Osage Nation for an order that would vacate a decades-old Tenth Circuit decision that determined its reservation boundaries had been disestablished, saying the district court is no longer active in the case and must continue to rely on precedent.
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March 02, 2026
While the Federal Communications Commission is looking for regulations to get rid of, one organization said it has a list of options for the agency to consider when it comes to the E-Rate subsidy program.
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March 02, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission heard from the lobbying sphere more than 100 times in February on concerns ranging from the need for wireless spectrum to next-generation 911, media ownership rules, access to Lifeline phone service and more.