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  • June 25, 2026

    Sens. Want CFTC Restricted From Prediction Markets Suits

    A group of 17 Democratic senators has called on a U.S. Senate subcommittee to prohibit the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission from using federal funds to prevent states and tribes from enforcing their gambling laws against prediction markets as litigation over the legality of their offerings continues to spread.

  • June 25, 2026

    CFTC, Prediction Market Trade Group Back Kalshi At 6th Circ.

    The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and a prediction market trade group are pressing the Sixth Circuit to affirm sole federal oversight of event contracts in separate briefs that argued state gambling laws are a poor fit to regulate trading on real-world events.

  • June 25, 2026

    Kalshi Says NM Tribes Lack Power Over Its Sports Contracts

    Kalshi is asking a New Mexico district court to dismiss a challenge by four Indigenous nations trying to block the prediction market platform from offering online sports betting within Indian Country, arguing that allowing the tribes to exercise regulatory authority will enable hundreds of other tribes to follow suit.

  • June 25, 2026

    Baby Carrier Seeks Block Of Rival's 'End-Run' ITC Suit

    A company that manufactures baby carriers asked an Idaho federal judge Thursday to order a rival litigant to withdraw its parallel complaint before the U.S. International Trade Commission, saying the complaint was an attempt at forum shopping and could disrupt the district court case.

  • June 25, 2026

    Another Trump Order For Election Restrictions Blocked

    A Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from implementing the president's March order to compile a federal list of eligible voters and to set new restrictions on the use of mail-in ballots in this fall's general election.

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  • AGENCIES
  • U.S. Department of the Interior
  • Board of Indian Appeals
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  • U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Tribal Justice
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  • Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
  • Civil Rights Act
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  • Native American trust fund and land issues
  • Gaming compact negotiations
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  • Disputes over land use and other natural resources
  • Breach of trust and mismanagement of tribal resources suits
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  • Cases involving tribal employers
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  • Personnel moves
  • Profiles of Native American and tribal law practices

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