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June 16, 2026
A California man has hit Kalshi Inc. with a proposed class action in federal court, accusing the prediction market of illegally sharing its users' personal information through LinkedIn and Google website tracking codes.
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June 16, 2026
The Trump administration must explain how it will be harmed by an order requiring it to restore climate change, slavery and Indigenous history information to National Park Service sites by Independence Day after it asked a federal court to pause the decision pending a First Circuit appeal.
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June 15, 2026
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is asking the D.C. Circuit to dismiss its appeal to a decision that found its efforts to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline were premature after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued a new environmental impact statement for the project last month.
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June 15, 2026
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is seeking information from several major private equity firms about their involvement in artificial intelligence data center development and operations, saying the increasing number of data centers across the country is putting pressure on American families and driving up utility costs.
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June 15, 2026
The Cannabis Regulators Association, an international organization of government officials who oversee marijuana and hemp policy, announced Monday the group has elected its new executive board.
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June 15, 2026
A district court judge has awarded Indigenous corporations $1.8 million in attorney fees in a dispute over rules regulating subsistence fishing in the Kuskokwim River, saying Alaska waited too long to argue a sovereign immunity defense in the case that ended in the U.S. Supreme Court.
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June 12, 2026
An Oklahoma district judge said Oklahoma officials must face challenges that look to block the state's wildlife conservation director from requiring tribal citizens to obtain state-issued fishing and hunting licenses for use on reservation lands, saying the Indigenous nations presented "colorable claims" on their treaty rights and inherent authority.
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June 12, 2026
The Trump administration must restore information about climate change, slavery and Indigenous history to National Park Service sites by the nation's 250th anniversary, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Friday, warning that the removal of such signage "sets a dangerous precedent of censorship and sanitization."
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June 12, 2026
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP said it has added Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson's former director of external relations, who had previously served as the Snoqualmie Tribe's governmental affairs and special projects executive director, to the law firm's government relations team.
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June 12, 2026
The federal government has dropped its appeal of a Massachusetts federal judge's order last year blocking the Trump administration from freezing wind energy project permits, according to a filing with the First Circuit.
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June 12, 2026
The Bureau of Reclamation has awarded Flatland Energy Services LLC a $75.5 million contract to construct a water pipeline as part of an infrastructure project that will provide reliable water supply to parts of the Navajo Nation in New Mexico.
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June 12, 2026
The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has asked a D.C. federal judge to vacate a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers permit letting an energy company reroute 41 miles of a crude oil pipeline around the tribe's reservation.
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June 12, 2026
Indigenous rights and environmental groups say the U.S. Senate's failure to act on a resolution to nullify a conservation resource plan for Utah's Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument prevented a significant escalation in federal lawmakers' use of the Congressional Review Act, which would have led to "chaos on the ground."
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June 12, 2026
The legal feud between federal and state regulators over sports-related prediction market offerings expanded Friday as New Mexico became the eighth state to be sued by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission for treating those contracts as illegal gambling.
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June 11, 2026
The state of North Dakota announced Thursday it has settled its claims that the federal government failed to control Dakota Access pipeline protesters for $27.8 million, the full amount of an earlier bench verdict.
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June 11, 2026
The U.S. Department of Education pressed ahead with its plan to end up to a billion dollars in school mental health grants, arguing Wednesday that a Seattle federal judge's December 2025 injunction barring the discontinuation of the grants shouldn't block the government from canceling the contracts outright.
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June 11, 2026
A South Carolina federal judge said Thursday that the Trump administration unlawfully terminated a $2.8 billion environmental and climate justice grant funding program that was authorized by Congress in 2022's Inflation Reduction Act.
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June 11, 2026
A couple of investment firms are asking a North Carolina federal court to toss a proposed consumer class action over a so-called tribal lending scheme that charges annual interest rates as high as 490%, saying the borrowers fail to show they helped manage the short-term loan company.
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June 11, 2026
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein is asking Congress for another $10 billion to help with the Tar Heel State's ongoing recovery from Hurricane Helene, marking a $3 billion reduction from the federal funding request he made nine months ago.
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June 11, 2026
An Alaskan Indigenous man who spent years battling a first-degree murder charge in connection to the death of his older brother is suing former Metlakatla Police Department officials, supervisors and tribal policymakers over the now-dismissed allegation, saying the investigation should have been handled with care, honesty and respect for the truth.
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June 11, 2026
A man who was found guilty of disorderly intoxication after being arrested at the Miccosukee Casino and Resort on the Miccosukee Indian Reservation had his conviction and sentence reversed after a Florida appeals court found the state lacked jurisdiction to prosecute him for violating a local ordinance on tribal land.
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June 10, 2026
Chickasaw Nation Gov. Bill Anoatubby has announced his plans to retire as the federally recognized tribe's leader, saying that after serving nearly 40 years it's time to pass the torch to the next generation of tribal stewards.
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June 10, 2026
The U.S. Small Business Administration released a proposal on Wednesday that would make it possible for small business owners to qualify for the 8(a) business development program by claiming they've been harmed by a company's DEI policies or a university's affirmative action programs.
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June 10, 2026
Environmental advocacy organizations told a D.C. federal district court Wednesday that Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s use of formerly protected land near the Texas coast would endanger vulnerable wildlife, saying SpaceX's occasional rocket explosions spew debris directly into protected habitat.
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June 10, 2026
The "God Squad" that waived Endangered Species Act requirements for oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico urged a Washington, D.C., federal district court to toss conservation groups' legal challenges over the move, arguing they've chosen the wrong forum.