July 03, 2023
An Eighth Circuit panel on Monday overturned a preliminary injunction that kept three North Dakota tribes from seeking action in tribal court against a gas and oil exploration company over a smoking ban dispute, saying a district court's ruling was premature and that all remedies haven't been exhausted in the Native American court system.
January 31, 2023
Circuit courts in February will hear argument in cases attempting to define college athletes as employees of their schools and that question if Tofurky has a right to market its products with names like "vegan sausage" instead of "vegan tubes." Here, Law360 previews selected appellate arguments in the month ahead.
September 19, 2022
The Three Affiliated Tribes are asking the Eighth Circuit to send back to tribal court a suit alleging WPX Energy Williston LLC employees violated a contractual smoking ban, saying the energy company had not exhausted its tribal remedies before it went to federal court.
August 24, 2022
An oil and gas company has asked the Eighth Circuit to reject a bid by the Three Affiliated Tribes to overturn a ruling that their courts can't hear a suit claiming the company's employees violated a contractual smoking ban on the tribe's reservation, saying the company isn't under the tribal court's jurisdiction.
July 08, 2022
The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation is urging the Eighth Circuit to let its own courts hear a claim that employees of an out-of-state energy company violated a contractual smoking ban while drilling for fossil fuels on the tribe's North Dakota reservation.