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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.
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June 16, 2026
A federal judge in Seattle will not reconsider her decision declining to enforce an earlier order barring the U.S. Department of Education from ceasing school mental health grants, saying Washington and other plaintiff states have not shown that the court erred.
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June 16, 2026
The Sixth Circuit denied a bid by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to appear as an amicus during oral arguments in Kalshi's appeal of a lower court ruling denying it a temporary enforcement shield in the prediction market platform's dispute with Ohio state officials.
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June 16, 2026
Environmental advocacy groups seek to intervene in NorthWestern Energy's application to establish new rates for future data centers, telling the Montana Public Service Commission that their input is needed to protect residential customers from unpredictably higher costs.
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June 16, 2026
The Yurok Tribe has asked a California federal judge to overturn an annual operations plan the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation released for the Klamath Project irrigation system, arguing it unlawfully promised too much water for agriculture at the expense of salmon.
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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."