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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."
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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.