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June 24, 2026
A Massachusetts federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred the Trump administration from enforcing what she called an unconstitutional and illegal requirement for proof of citizenship to vote, marking the latest successful challenge to the measure from several states.
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June 23, 2026
A Tenth Circuit panel on Tuesday revived challenges to former President Joe Biden's designations of hundreds of thousands of acres as parts of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, finding that the Antiquities Act puts discernible limits on the president's discretion.
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June 23, 2026
Fourteen states are backing challenges to the Trump administration's decision to open up oil and gas leasing on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, telling the court that the seismic exploration will harm migratory birds and increase greenhouse gas emissions that already contribute to climate change.
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June 23, 2026
A New Mexico tribe is fighting attempts to dismiss its bid to block the federal government from altering the boundaries of a Lincoln-era 34,700-acre land patent, telling the court that the defendants can't frame the litigation as a quiet title action.
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June 23, 2026
Environmental groups' challenge to a discharge permit issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for work on a natural gas pipeline stretching across several Eastern states was voluntarily dismissed Monday at the Fourth Circuit.
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June 23, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday ended a Rastafarian's bid to hold Louisiana prison guards responsible for allegedly violating his religious rights by forcibly shaving off his dreadlocks, ruling a law aimed at preventing religious discrimination at state and local levels can't be used to sue government officials in their individual capacities without their consent.
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June 22, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a case over whether a federal inmate can use a 1971 high court precedent to pursue damages from prison officials for allegedly failing to provide adequate medical care after a 2021 prison fight.
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June 22, 2026
The California Gaming Association is looking to back Churchill Downs in its bid to block a Maine law that allows the state's tribal governments to operate online gaming, arguing that the statute flouts fundamental constitutional equity principles and creates a "licensing regime" based on race and ancestry.
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June 22, 2026
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission defended its continued approval of a liquefied natural gas project in South Texas, telling the D.C. Circuit it had addressed the court's previous concerns by expanding its analysis of the project's polluting effects.
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June 22, 2026
A Washington federal judge is expected to soon determine if the Lummi Nation can block a telephone company from continuing to construct a broadband project at a location where Indigenous remains have been unearthed, after the telecom argued the tribe filed its challenge too late.
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June 18, 2026
A Wisconsin judge says the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians' decision to block nonmember fishing in 19 lakes within its reservation goes against a status quo held for generations, and allowing a last-minute disruption will confuse the public during this year's fishing season.
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June 18, 2026
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday directed regional grid operators to craft their own policies that speed up the connection of data centers and other large facilities to the grid, eschewing a nationally applicable rule advocated by the U.S. Department of Energy.
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June 18, 2026
A federal regulator must comply with the Endangered Species Act as it operates a water management initiative in southern Oregon and northern California, the Ninth Circuit ruled, without adjudicating particular usage rights among irrigators, tribes and others.
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June 18, 2026
The Trump administration cannot delay restoring information about climate change, slavery and Indigenous history to National Park Service sites by the nation's 250th anniversary while it pursues an appeal, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled on Thursday.
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June 18, 2026
Connecticut and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation have signed a cannabis compact allowing transactions between tribal enterprises and state-licensed entities, the first deal of its kind since Connecticut legalized recreational marijuana in June 2021 and the tribe penned its own cannabis regulations that same year.
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June 18, 2026
The Tenth Circuit has revived a case alleging New Mexico exceeded its authority by requiring cleanup of so-called forever chemicals at a U.S. Air Force base in the state, finding the district court erred by claiming it did not have jurisdiction over the dispute.
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June 18, 2026
An Arizona Indigenous nation is asking a D.C. federal court to block the Department of Homeland Security from constructing a 62-mile border wall through its reservation, alleging that reports of federal contractors destroying ancestral sites in adjacent areas confirm the tribe's decision to oppose the wall construction.
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June 18, 2026
Kalshi has asked the Sixth Circuit to ensure that its sports contract offerings remain online in Tennessee while a lawsuit over their legality proceeds, once again drawing a bright line between its services and conventional sports betting.
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June 17, 2026
Kentucky's attorney general on Wednesday lodged three lawsuits accusing prediction market platforms Kalshi and Polymarket, and online casino platform VGW, of violating the state's consumer protection and gambling laws by offering unlicensed sports wagering in the state, and running illegal and addictive sweepstakes casino websites.
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June 17, 2026
A California federal court has cleared the way for the Round Valley Indian Tribes and three tribal members to immediately appeal to the Ninth Circuit the dismissal of their claims that two counties' cannabis enforcement raids on their reservation violated federal law.
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June 17, 2026
The Trump administration on Wednesday turned over to a federal judge in Boston a list of at least 50 signs, exhibits and other materials that have been removed from U.S. national parks and historic sites under a presidential directive to cull items that "inappropriately disparage Americans past or living."
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June 17, 2026
The Cayuga Nation has alleged Caesars Sportsbook engaged in illegal gambling on the tribe's reservation, violated the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and unlawfully operated within the tribe's territorial boundaries under state law.
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June 17, 2026
The Trump administration has agreed to pay Invenergy $765 million to voluntarily give up its affiliates' four offshore wind leases in the New York Bight, California's central coast and the Gulf of Maine in exchange for funneling cash into U.S. oil and gas development, according to a joint announcement Wednesday.
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June 17, 2026
Two real estate companies that own several upscale Detroit area apartment buildings have failed to respond to a federal lawsuit accusing managers of subjecting a Native American engineer to repeated racist remarks and stereotypes, according to a clerk of court's entry of default Tuesday.
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June 17, 2026
Polymarket and Robinhood may soon face enforcement efforts from Michigan regulators after a federal judge ruled Wednesday that he saw little difference between the prediction market platforms' sports contract offerings and conventional sports betting.