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April 10, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Interior is asking a federal court to deny conservation groups' bid to block an order instructing U.S. National Park Service staff to remove signs containing information about slavery, Indigenous nations and climate change, saying their challenge is an "invitation to the political thicket."
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April 09, 2026
Counsel for 33 states and the District of Columbia on Thursday urged a Manhattan federal jury to show the world that even "a $36 billion behemoth" like Live Nation isn't above antitrust laws and find it liable for flagrantly monopolizing the U.S. live entertainment market, to the detriment of artists, venue operators and fans.
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April 09, 2026
A Ninth Circuit panel affirmed Thursday tossing youths' lawsuit alleging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse gas "discount" program discriminates against children by favoring present-day consumption over future consumption, finding the kids' "sprawling and speculative causal theory" of alleged environmental harms aren't traceable to the government's policies.
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April 09, 2026
An Oklahoma federal judge has rejected a bid by the state and several poultry companies to enter consent decrees in their two-decade-old dispute, finding the agreements did not go far enough to address pollution of the Illinois River Watershed.
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April 09, 2026
Nearly a dozen Democratic U.S. senators are opposing a proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule that will limit states' and tribes' rights to block and regulate the effects of hydropower dams on water quality on their lands.
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April 09, 2026
A California Native American tribe can't undo an arbitration award requiring it to follow the guidelines for union representation elections outlined in its 2017 agreement with UNITE HERE, the Ninth Circuit has ruled.
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April 09, 2026
A Colorado federal judge has allowed Nebraska's largest electric utility to back the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in litigation seeking to undo the agency's fast-track approval of the utility's 226-mile high-voltage transmission project.
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April 09, 2026
The federal government says it had justification for rejecting a California tribe's request for an agreement to fund an opioid treatment center, claiming that a challenge over the denial is more about trying to monetize on advantages available to Indigenous nations and less about helping patients.
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April 08, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Wednesday backed Kalshi's assertion that Arizona's gambling laws cannot be applied to federally regulated prediction market platforms, the same day the Phoenix federal court rejected Kalshi's bid to halt enforcement of those state laws.
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April 08, 2026
Live Nation on Wednesday concluded its defense case with glowing testimony about it from the manager for rap star Drake, while the Manhattan federal judge overseeing the case said rival company AEG Worldwide and a Hogan Lovells lawyer may face sanctions for revealing confidential information about a witness.
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April 08, 2026
The U.S. Department of Education denied accusations by 16 U.S. states that it is flouting a court order to restore nearly $1 billion in K–12 mental health grants, arguing in a Western District of Washington filing that the order required officials to re-review the grants, not actually provide full funding.
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April 08, 2026
Alaska has asked a federal judge to deny a summary judgment bid by three tribal communities and an environmental group to vacate a U.S. Department of the Interior decision that traded federally protected wilderness to allow for a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
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April 08, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Wednesday issued an amended opinion in its ruling to allow a 2,500-acre land exchange within Arizona's Tonto National Forest, which includes a partial dissent from U.S. Circuit Judge Johnnie B. Rawlinson, who said the decision will "completely annihilate sacred Native lands."
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April 08, 2026
A miner and the BlueRibbon Coalition are asking a Michigan district court to reject a change of venue request by several tribes and conservation groups, arguing that they can't recast the dispute over the Chuckwalla National Monument's establishment in California as one of local controversy and interest.
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April 08, 2026
A conservation group has accused U.S. Customs and Border Protection of violating the Freedom of Information Act, telling a Texas federal court it must disclose requested records over the Trump administration's border wall plans for Texas' Big Bend region.
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April 07, 2026
A Wisconsin tribe is challenging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' permit allowing an energy company to reroute 41 miles of a crude oil pipeline around the tribe's reservation, claiming the Corps approved it without sufficiently assessing the risk of oil spills and other problems.
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April 07, 2026
A Rhode Island federal judge rejected Tuesday the government's bid to toss a group of states' lawsuit challenging Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "dramatic overhaul" of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, criticizing the government for rehashing jurisdictional arguments the court already rejected and finding the states' claims are plausible.
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April 07, 2026
The vast expanse of litigation over sports offerings on prediction markets was jolted by a Third Circuit decision in favor of Kalshi this week, likely further speeding the issue's already fast track to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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April 07, 2026
Florida argued Tuesday a lack of U.S. government funding and control can't support a lower court order finding the construction of an Everglades-based immigration detention center bypassed federal environmental laws, and urged the Eleventh Circuit to reverse a preliminary injunction halting the center's operations.
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April 07, 2026
A slew of urban hospitals, including a dozen Indian Health Service entities, are asking a D.C. federal court to invalidate a two-year Health and Human Services wage index methodology for Medicare reimbursements, alleging it assigned lower adjustments for rural hospitals in their states.
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April 07, 2026
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service told a Washington federal court that it used well-reasoned factors and the "best available" science to determine the Pacific Northwest's sand-verbena moth does not warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act.
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April 07, 2026
The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians is asking the Interior Department to take 112 acres of land into trust in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, that will allow it to expand healthcare, economic and recreational opportunities for its 14,000 members.
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April 06, 2026
A coalition of state-level enforcers and AEG Worldwide on Monday separately pushed back against accusations of witness tampering from Live Nation Entertainment Inc. amid a trial accusing the live entertainment giant and its Ticketmaster subsidiary of anticompetitive conduct, saying the defense allegations of undue influence are false.
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April 06, 2026
A Florida church that has used a federally prohibited psychedelic as part of its rites is asking a federal court to block raids on it after filing suit against the government in February over claims that law enforcement ransacked its Orlando-area sanctuary and detained its members in violation of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.
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April 06, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Interior plans to reunite its offshore energy permitting and offshore energy safety agencies, 15 years after they were split apart in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.