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August 06, 2026
A tribe in Utah is asking the Tenth Circuit to deny a former energy manager's bid to have a 13-year breach of contract dispute heard before a federal court, arguing that because of his "delay tactics," a trial in Ute Indian Tribal Courts has not concluded.
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August 05, 2026
Social media companies are headed back to court over allegations that their platforms are designed to hook young people, while OpenAI faces claims that ChatGPT has meted out harmful health advice and helped users plan mass shootings. Here's what's on the radar for product liability for the rest of 2026.
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August 05, 2026
The U.S. Army soldier accused of reaping prediction market profits with his knowledge of the January operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro wants to fight parallel actions from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the U.S. Justice Department at once, and contends the government can't use his case as an "experiment" for how to police trading on platforms like Polymarket.
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August 05, 2026
Kalshi agreed to implement geofencing restrictions by Aug. 26 to prevent people in Washington from making bets on the platform in accordance with a state judge's preliminary injunction, but the prediction market is still at odds with state officials over the scope of the court order.
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August 05, 2026
More than 140 river outfitters, local businesses and recreation groups have urged Texas' two U.S. senators and Gov. Greg Abbott to intervene and stop planned border barrier construction in and around Big Bend National Park, warning the project would devastate the region's recreation economy and cut off public access to the Rio Grande.
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August 05, 2026
A Utah federal judge has allowed the state's gambling regulators to crack down on Kalshi's sports event contracts, rejecting the prediction market giant's argument that it should be shielded by federal law.
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August 05, 2026
A water association is asking the Ninth Circuit to rethink a ruling that held the Endangered Species Act applies to the operation and management of an Oregon irrigation project, arguing that the appellate court left "an unworkable" framework to determine a threshold question over nondiscretionary federal agency actions.
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August 05, 2026
A Wyoming federal judge dismissed a series of cases challenging resource management plans that ended new coal leasing on federal lands in the Powder River Basin, agreeing that the dispute ended when Congress repealed the plans.
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August 04, 2026
The company behind TikTok settled three lawsuits brought by young people alleging the social media platform caused them mental health harm, a lawyer for the plaintiffs said Tuesday, although three other social media companies are still scheduled to go to trial in Los Angeles on the claims in October.
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August 04, 2026
A split D.C. Circuit affirmed a lower court decision blocking the Trump administration from freezing $20 billion in clean-energy grant money Tuesday, overturning a divided circuit panel decision from September that vacated the injunction and would have allowed the administration to claw back the funding.
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August 04, 2026
More than a dozen Indigenous nations, federal Indian law professors and tribal organizations are backing Boulder County, Colorado, in the Supreme Court, telling the justices that climate change has already caused roughly $8 billion in disruptions across Indian Country, yet the federal government provides only $400 million to mitigate them.
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August 04, 2026
The Center for Food Safety and Wild Fish Conservancy have urged a Washington federal judge to reject Pacific Seafood's argument that the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation must be joined in their Clean Water Act suit over three Columbia River fish farms.
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August 04, 2026
The federal government and Enbridge Energy are looking to dismiss a challenge to a permit that allows 41 miles of pipeline to be rerouted around a Wisconsin tribe's lands, arguing that any attempts to find flaws in an environmental analysis for the plan are hasty and lack merit.
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August 03, 2026
The executive director of Tennessee's Commission on Children and Youth testified Monday in the state's mental health trial against Meta that the percentage of high school students in the state who report feeling sad or hopeless has been trending upward in the last decade.
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August 03, 2026
A coalition of 21 states sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in California federal court Friday, challenging an Affordable Care Act rule that shifts costs onto enrollees while reimposing certain provisions that a Maryland federal court vacated for being unlawful and arbitrary.
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August 03, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission heard from lobbyists more than 170 times in July as they sought to sway the FCC on satellite licensing rules, an auction of C-band airwaves, rural healthcare aid, broadcast media ownership limits and more.
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August 03, 2026
Democratic senators led by Oregon's Jeff Merkley on Monday called on the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to "rein in" prediction markets speculating on wildfires.
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August 03, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Interior on Monday announced new proposed changes to existing federal regulations on exploratory offshore drilling in the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf, as part of the Trump administration's broader push to "unleash American energy dominance."
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August 03, 2026
Michigan's legal sector can expect answers on several burning legal questions in the remainder of 2026, with major litigation over the Flint water crisis nearing an end, and the state's enforcement push against prediction market purveyors just getting started. Some of the biggest questions, however, will be answered not in court, but at the ballot box, where Michigan Supreme Court justices are up for election and a potential constitutional convention will be put to voters.
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July 31, 2026
Law360 is pleased to announce the Rising Stars of 2026, our list of more than 160 attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments belie their age.
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August 02, 2026
The Michigan Supreme Court threw out state regulators' approval of Enbridge Energy LP's proposed Line 5 tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac, ruling that the Michigan Public Service Commission failed to properly analyze the project's environmental impacts under the Michigan Environmental Protection Act and must reconsider the application.
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July 31, 2026
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission ordered convicted former U.S. Rep. George Santos to pay $35,000 to settle claims he manipulated a prediction market on whether he would attend the 2026 State of the Union address.
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July 31, 2026
Environmental organizations are accusing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of surrendering its authority to balance environmental impacts with economics in a recent rule change that gives more weight to financial concerns when assessing sensitive habitats.
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July 31, 2026
A D.C. Circuit panel on Friday rejected a Utah tribe's bid to undo a lower court's ruling that said it has no compensable title to 1.5 million acres in Utah, saying the lack of that title means the oil field lands are not eligible for restoration under the Indian Reorganization Act.
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July 31, 2026
A Canadian mining company is asking the Supreme Court to reverse a Ninth Circuit ruling that revived Washington tribes' natural resource damages claims for alleged pollution of the Columbia River, arguing the appellate court upended an environmental cleanup statute's tradeoff between broad liability and limited remedies.