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June 01, 2026
Utah and two of its counties are asking the Tenth Circuit to grant the Ute Indian Tribe permission to file an interlocutory appeal on whether split estate lands are Indian Country, saying that final resolution of the issue will allow a half-century of litigation to end.
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June 01, 2026
Several states urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Ninth Circuit ruling finding the U.S. Air Force had to conduct environmental review over its application to renew a munitions disposal permit, arguing it imposed needless procedural hurdles.
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June 01, 2026
The federal government and Whatcom County, Washington, say they want out of a challenge by the Lummi Nation that looks to block a telephone company from continuing to construct a broadband project on sites where Indigenous remains have been unearthed.
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June 01, 2026
Minnesota has told a federal judge the Trump administration recycled absurd standing theories rejected in other cases to support an "egregious" attempt to block the state's six-year-old consumer deception lawsuit against fossil fuel entities.
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May 29, 2026
A New Mexico judge carved up a challenge to the U.S. Forest Service over the destruction of nearly 43,000 acres of national forest land, saying the agency didn't follow its own monitoring obligations that don't allow for discretion until an emergent risk is brought to its attention.
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May 29, 2026
A Hawaii federal judge has given final approval to a $100 million deal to settle a shareholder derivative suit alleging the directors and executives of Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc. failed to prepare for the deadly 2023 Maui wildfire.
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May 29, 2026
The Oklahoma Supreme Court has rejected a settlement agreement between the city of Tulsa and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation over criminal jurisdiction on reservation lands, finding that the pact is invalid because it lacks the required approval of the state's governor and Legislature.
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May 28, 2026
Kalshi is taking aim at a Minnesota ban on prediction markets that it says would turn it into a felon for operating in the state, filing a suit that follows a similar bid by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to block the state law.
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May 28, 2026
The Osage Nation is appealing to the Tenth Circuit an Oklahoma federal judge's decision that declined to vacate a 16-year-old circuit decision saying the tribe's reservation boundaries had been disestablished, arguing that no congressional language explicitly changed those boundaries.
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May 28, 2026
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission asked a Rhode Island federal judge to join Kalshi in its suit against the state of Rhode Island on Thursday, extending the commission's campaign to assert its regulatory authority over prediction markets.
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May 28, 2026
The Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation and nonprofit Columbia Riverkeeper have each sued the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in the Ninth Circuit over the agency's issuance of a license for a hydroelectric project license.
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May 28, 2026
GCI Communication Corp. has asked the Federal Communications Commission for permission to end certain telecommunications services in six Alaskan communities, arguing that other carriers offer those services.
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May 27, 2026
A Google software engineer faces charges that he made more than $1.2 million by placing insider bets on Polymarket using the search giant's confidential data, and then tried to conceal his proceeds and actions, according to criminal and civil complaints unveiled Wednesday in New York federal court.
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May 27, 2026
A California federal judge laid out plans during a hearing Wednesday to empanel an eight-member advisory jury panel in August to help her decide claims from state attorneys general against Meta Platforms Inc. in multidistrict social-media-addiction litigation, while expressing concerns that the states haven't disclosed their specific damages demands yet.
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May 27, 2026
Gaming and chat platform Roblox, the subject of multiple lawsuits accusing it of harming minors with addictive design features that expose them to online abuse, is now facing an investigation by the Connecticut attorney general.
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May 27, 2026
A Florida state judge has handed Walmart, Walgreens and CVS a win in a fight with hospitals over treatment of opioid-addicted patients, finding the hospitals cannot recover damages under state racketeering law because their injuries are indirect.
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May 27, 2026
Several organizations have joined the legal fight to restore $127 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture grants aimed at fighting climate change through diverse farm ownership, arguing that the agency's termination of the funding was arbitrary and capricious.
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May 27, 2026
A North Dakota federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of the Interior and a tribal nation to file a joint report about a DOI solicitor's opinion in a dispute over who owns mineral rights beneath a portion of the Missouri River.
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May 27, 2026
An environmental nonprofit told a Florida federal judge Wednesday that the director of the state's disaster agency illegally authorized a fleet of diesel-burning equipment that pollutes protected land surrounding an Everglades immigrant detention center, leading to violations of the Clean Air Act.
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May 27, 2026
Robinhood has told the First Circuit it's time for a Massachusetts federal court to decide whether sports event contracts can be regulated by the state gambling commission, arguing "no legitimate basis exists" to wait for a state court to rule first.
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May 26, 2026
A North Dakota federal judge agreed Tuesday to overturn the state of North Dakota's $28 million verdict against the U.S. for failure to control Dakota Access pipeline protesters, clearing the way for a settlement the parties have said is ready to go.
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May 26, 2026
The Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation on Tuesday moved to intervene in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's suit over Connecticut regulators' attempts to shut down certain prediction markets.
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May 26, 2026
The U.S. Air Force has told the U.S. Supreme Court that the Ninth Circuit erred in holding that the military branch was required to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act before seeking to renew a permit to dispose of hazardous waste at Tarague Beach on Guam.
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May 26, 2026
A Washington telephone company says a bid by the Lummi Nation to seal information containing the locations of sensitive archaeological sites undermines the tribe's claims that a preliminary injunction is necessary since maintaining the confidentiality of those locations mitigates the alleged risk of potential looting.
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May 26, 2026
Resolution Copper Co. is asking a federal court to dismiss an amended religious freedom and constitutional challenge to a Tonto National Forest 2,500-acre land exchange that includes an ancient Apache worship site, arguing it recycles claims that the Ninth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court have already rejected.