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February 05, 2026
A California federal judge overseeing discovery in litigation against social media giants over their effect on youth mental health ordered Meta to provide plaintiffs with updated data on the amount of time users spend on Instagram and Facebook, after state attorneys general argued Meta had skewed the times downward.
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February 05, 2026
A Timbisha Shoshone tribal band has joined conservation groups in filing a California federal court suit to stop exploratory mine drilling near the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge's wetlands, saying the U.S. Bureau of Land Management refuses to comply with the Endangered Species Act.
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February 04, 2026
Two tribes in Washington state have sued the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other federal agencies on claims the government unfairly told them they weren't eligible to apply for $240 million of Pacific salmon hatchery funds under the Inflation Reduction Act.
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February 04, 2026
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP helped secure a $300 million settlement for third-party payors, a class of private benefit plan providers who argued that opioid distributors fanned the flames of the addiction crisis in the U.S., one of several high-profile class action settlements with nationwide impacts that earned the firm a place among the 2025 Law360 Class Action Groups of the Year.
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February 04, 2026
A New York state family court judge has said he won't exercise jurisdiction in a domestic abuse and child custody case that originated in a Navajo Nation court, ruling that the Indian Child Welfare Act requires states to honor tribes' judicial proceedings in child custody disputes.
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February 03, 2026
The Interior Department has asked a Montana federal judge to toss the Cottonwood Environmental Law Center's challenge to the government's bison population management plan in Yellowstone National Park, saying it does not have a legally protectable interest in the case.
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February 03, 2026
The Indian Gaming Association, tribal gambling groups and 23 Native American tribes have urged an Illinois federal judge to toss cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase's suit against the state as it tries to prohibit the company from offering event contracts to consumers as a form of sports betting.
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February 03, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision last year that curtailed federal environmental reviews has translated to faster Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approvals of gas infrastructure projects, commissioners told a congressional energy panel Tuesday.
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February 02, 2026
The D.C. Circuit got a lesson in tribal history dating back to the 19th century as lawyers for the federal government and a Native American tribe argued Monday whether a congressional act gives the tribe compensable title to 1.5 million acres of Utah land where an oilfield lies.
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February 02, 2026
A D.C. federal judge on Monday lifted the Trump administration's halt of the Sunrise Wind project, the final victory for five East Coast offshore wind farms that all convinced courts to block the government's stop-work orders.
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February 02, 2026
As the Federal Communications Commission responds to reports from its internal auditors of widespread fraud in Lifeline phone services, the program's administrator has said progress is underway to strengthen a national system to verify beneficiaries.
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February 02, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has asked a New York federal judge to grant it a default win against a purported Native American microcap company and its CEO accused of a $3.4 million fraud, saying the defendants have not responded to the lawsuit.
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February 02, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission urged a New Mexico federal judge to toss a school board's challenge to an agency investigation into alleged hiring discrimination against Native Americans, arguing the case is procedurally out of line.
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February 02, 2026
Native American tribes in California would be eligible for a property tax exemption for land conservation efforts under a bill approved by lawmakers and headed to Gov. Gavin Newsom.
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January 30, 2026
The Eighth Circuit Friday refused to revive a group of landowning Three Affiliated Tribes members' lawsuit accusing oil pipeline operator Andeavor of trespassing across their North Dakota reservation lands, with a panel majority concluding that the members had no federal common law trespass claim.
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January 30, 2026
Oklahoma's governor and wildlife department have urged the Oklahoma Supreme Court to give them control over hunting and fishing rights on tribal reservation lands so they can issue state-managed permits, arguing that an opinion by the state's attorney general wrongly says federal law prohibits such permitting.
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January 30, 2026
A California federal judge has denied the bulk of two motions to dismiss a suit from the Round Valley Indian Tribes and three of its members alleging that their properties were illegally raided for growing cannabis, dismissing only the claims that law enforcement officers didn't have jurisdiction over the properties.
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January 30, 2026
An Idaho federal judge has approved a proposed consent decree calling for two Nu-West companies and the U.S. government to share costs to implement remediation work for a North Maybe Mine site in Caribou County.
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January 29, 2026
A Tennessee federal judge has denied a bid by tribal groups including the Indian Gaming Association and the National Congress of American Indians to file an amicus brief in prediction market Kalshi's suit against state gambling regulators over the company's sports wagers.
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January 29, 2026
A Minnesota county and two of its townships are appealing to the Eighth Circuit a lower court's order that dismissed a challenge to a U.S. Department of the Interior decision to take more than 3,000 acres into trust for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe.
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January 29, 2026
The Trump administration has urged a D.C. federal court to reject New York's attempt to undo the suspension of an Ørsted subsidiary's offshore wind project, saying the state has only claimed distant and derivative economic harm.
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January 29, 2026
Two dispensary owners are suing Hawaii's attorney general and the Hawaii State Department of Health, alleging that the state's new law regulating hemp products is preempted by the 2018 Farm Bill and violates the supremacy clause by criminalizing conduct Congress legalized.
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January 29, 2026
Scotland's University of Edinburgh is returning the remains of six Muscogee (Creek) Nation individuals in what it says it believes is the first international repatriation of Native American ancestral remains to the United States' mainland.
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January 28, 2026
A coalition of unions, nonprofit organizations and local governments that are challenging the Trump administration's federal worker layoffs and agency reorganizations asked a California federal judge Tuesday for permission to add the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a defendant, saying ongoing staff cuts threaten its legally mandated responsibility to respond to disasters.
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January 28, 2026
Democrats are bristling against a plan by the Federal Communications Commission to reduce purported fraud in the Lifeline program, where the agency says some states enrolled dead people and others who don't qualify.