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April 30, 2026
The insider trading case against a U.S. Army sergeant who helped plan the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro presents a compelling test for the statutory tools the government can use to police prediction markets, and it sends a message there's more to come, former prosecutors say.
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April 30, 2026
A Washington state judge refused on Wednesday to dismiss two Native American tribes' lawsuits accusing ExxonMobil, Chevron and other major oil companies of concealing climate change risks related to fossil fuels, rejecting the companies' arguments that federal law blocks the tribes' claims.
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April 30, 2026
The Muscogee Creek Nation has taken its fight to the Tenth Circuit to block Tulsa County's district attorney from exercising criminal jurisdiction on its reservation, appealing a lower court decision allowing the prosecutor to try and punish Native Americans who aren't members of the tribe.
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April 30, 2026
The Trump administration agreed at a hearing Thursday to temporarily halt the use of 22 states' Medicaid data for immigration enforcement purposes until a San Francisco federal judge clarifies the boundaries of an injunction that the largely Democratic-controlled states had accused the government of flouting.
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April 30, 2026
Despite a partial dissent from the Federal Communications Commission's lone Democrat, the agency Thursday morning voted to approve a much-criticized plan to create a portal that consolidates bids for the E-rate program into one place.
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April 30, 2026
Two Indigenous groups say the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to narrow a provision of the Voting Rights Act that forbids discrimination on the basis of race "cruelly" undercuts a foundational tool for Native American voters and other minority voters to protect themselves.
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April 30, 2026
A coalition of tribal gaming groups and federally recognized tribes won permission on Thursday to file briefs backing Michigan officials in suits by Robinhood Derivatives LLC and Polymarket US over sports-related event contracts, arguing the companies' claims threaten to upend tribal-state gaming regulation and siphon revenue from tribal governments.
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April 30, 2026
U.S. senators voted unanimously on Thursday to ban themselves and their staff from trading on prediction markets.
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April 30, 2026
Arkansas is asking the Eighth Circuit to reject an appeal by two Cherokee Nation entities over the voter referendum revocation of a gaming license in Pope County, arguing that their claims omit crucial details in alleging that the state conspired to violate their constitutional rights.
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April 29, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission has its eye on the National Broadband Map, with plans to vote next month on launching a proceeding to explore how to cut red tape from the data collection process while also increasing the accuracy of the data being collected.
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April 29, 2026
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum on Wednesday blasted a federal court's recent pause of policies that imposed stricter reviews on wind and solar projects as Senate Democrats said such moves could kill the chances for significant permitting reform legislation.
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April 29, 2026
A coalition of Democratic congressional lawmakers are looking to back a conservation group's summary judgment bid in its challenge to the U.S. Department of Interior's decision to put President Donald Trump's image on this year's America the Beautiful Annual Pass.
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April 29, 2026
Lummi Nation says the remains of its ancestors have been disturbed by a federally funded broadband project in what it calls a "cascading series of preventable and unlawful failures" in a lawsuit against the federal government, a telecommunications company and a county in Washington.
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April 29, 2026
A former Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorney has moved to Robinhood to join the financial trading platform's litigation and regulatory enforcement team.
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April 29, 2026
Five Oklahoma tribal members are asking a Federal Claims Court to order the U.S. government to provide a full accounting of oil and gas leasing royalties they say are owed to more than 10,000 Indigenous landowners, arguing it failed to properly manage the funds.
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April 29, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked a New Mexico federal court to force a school district to turn over several years of employee and applicant data, the latest escalation in a Native American bias investigation that the district has criticized as vague and overly broad.
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April 29, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's congressional map containing two majority-Black voting districts Wednesday and further limited the Voting Rights Act's use in challenging racial discrimination in legislative redistricting — a decision the dissent claims completes the conservative majority's "demolition" of the seminal civil rights law.
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April 28, 2026
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Tuesday added Wisconsin to the list of states it's taking to court to assert its "exclusive jurisdiction" over prediction markets after the state accused five platforms of offering illegal bets through their event contract offerings.
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April 28, 2026
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP has to pay a $3.5 billion fine and forfeit an additional $2 billion, more than five years after it pled guilty to criminal charges related to its role in the opioid crisis, a New Jersey federal judge said Tuesday.
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April 28, 2026
Importers have successfully submitted more than 11.2 million entries to Customs and Border Protection's tariff refund system, and more than 1.7 million imports have been validated and are ready for refunds, a CBP official told the U.S. Court of International Trade on Tuesday.
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April 28, 2026
J.R. Simplot Co. is asking the Ninth Circuit to stay pending U.S. Supreme Court review of its decision to invalidate an Idaho land transfer by the U.S. Department of the Interior that would have allowed it to expand its phosphogypsum plant near tribal lands, saying the issue has already caused "robust debate" in the appellate court.
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April 28, 2026
A U.S. Army sergeant who helped plan the capture of deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro pled not guilty in Manhattan federal court Tuesday to profiting by at least $365,000 by gambling on the raid on Polymarket.
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April 28, 2026
Descendants of those once enslaved by the Choctaw Nation are asking for federal recognition, arguing that constitutional and international law, and an 1866 treaty between the U.S. and the Five Civilized Tribes that abolished slavery post-Civil War give them the right to the status.
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April 27, 2026
After a run of litigation losses, Meta Platforms Inc. will have to rethink its strategy in and out of court in an effort to beat back suits from coast to coast claiming that it is illegally hooking kids on Instagram, experts said, with everything from aggressive litigation to a global settlement on the table.
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April 27, 2026
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and the federal government have asked a D.C. federal court to hand them a win in a long-running lawsuit over tribal gambling compacts, arguing that the four tribal nations suing them fail to show that they violated the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.