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May 05, 2026
A Phoenix federal judge on Tuesday barred Arizona officials from enforcing state gambling laws against federally regulated prediction market platforms in an order finding that the federal government is likely to succeed on claims that the event contracts at issue are swaps beyond the reach of state regulators.
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May 05, 2026
Tribally owned online direct lender WithU Loans is urging a Washington federal judge to send a consumer's proposed class action over alleged predatory lending practices to arbitration, arguing that the plaintiff agreed to arbitrate any claims against the company when he signed the loan agreement at issue.
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May 05, 2026
Native CDFI Network Inc. is suing the United States for terminating a $400 million Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund grant, saying the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency invoked "a potpourri of shifting reasons" for the cancellation before landing on the assertion its priorities had changed.
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May 05, 2026
A Wisconsin village is asking the Seventh Circuit to undo a U.S. Department of the Interior decision to place 500 acres of properties into trust for the Oneida Nation, arguing that a district court ignored evidence of bias and shielded the transactional record from meaningful scrutiny.
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May 04, 2026
Three California tribes have asked a federal judge to stay their litigation seeking to stop prediction market platforms from conducting what they say is illegal gambling on their lands, saying they can wait until the Ninth Circuit rules on their appeal challenging a denied preliminary injunction.
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May 04, 2026
The U.S. Forest Service is fighting three Indigenous rights and conservation nonprofits' bid to undo its streamlined approval of exploratory drilling within Black Hills National Forest that they say will harm a sacred worship site, arguing to a South Dakota federal court that the groups' allegations are just speculation.
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May 04, 2026
Three Democrats in the North Carolina Senate introduced legislation Monday that proposes putting the decriminalization of both recreational and medical marijuana on the ballot come the November elections.
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May 04, 2026
Prediction market KalshiEX may be facing long odds in its effort to convince Massachusetts' highest court that its sports-related offerings are governed by federal commodities regulators and not subject to state gaming laws, several justices suggested Monday.
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May 04, 2026
A Wisconsin federal judge has temporarily blocked the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians from stopping nonmembers from fishing for walleye and musky in 19 lakes within its reservation, after the state challenged the Indigenous nation's use of its hunting and fishing laws to cite anglers.
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May 01, 2026
Several Louisiana voters, including a Democratic candidate for Congress, have sued Gov. Jeff Landry over his decision to suspend congressional primaries while new voting districts are being drawn in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision striking down the state's current map.
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May 01, 2026
Nine Sioux Nations are asking a South Dakota federal court to block the approval of exploratory drilling in the Black Hills National Forest, saying the federal government didn't consider the potential effects the project will have on a sacred Indigenous worship site that contains hundreds of cultural properties.
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May 01, 2026
For more than 20 years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has failed to pay tens of millions in reimbursements to hospitals serving low-income populations by incorrectly factoring service days for patients enrolled in Medicare Part C, a coalition of 91 medical centers claimed in a D.C. federal lawsuit.
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May 01, 2026
For most lawyers, getting to argue before the U.S. Supreme Court is a once-in-a-lifetime event, but for a select few, it's a common occurrence. Clement & Murphy PLLC name partner Paul Clement is one of those lawyers.
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May 01, 2026
The Muscogee Creek Nation is asking a federal district court to reject motions to dismiss its challenge over an excavated sacred burial site in Alabama, arguing that its sister tribe's claims of immunity in the long-running dispute fail under state and federal law.
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May 01, 2026
Income earned by citizens of Native American tribes as payment for services related to fishing rights activities qualifies as compensation for purposes of limits on qualified retirement plan benefits and contributions, the Internal Revenue Service said Friday.
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April 30, 2026
The insider trading case against a U.S. Army sergeant who helped plan the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro presents a compelling test for the statutory tools the government can use to police prediction markets, and it sends a message there's more to come, former prosecutors say.
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April 30, 2026
A Washington state judge refused on Wednesday to dismiss two Native American tribes' lawsuits accusing ExxonMobil, Chevron and other major oil companies of concealing climate change risks related to fossil fuels, rejecting the companies' arguments that federal law blocks the tribes' claims.
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April 30, 2026
The Muscogee Creek Nation has taken its fight to the Tenth Circuit to block Tulsa County's district attorney from exercising criminal jurisdiction on its reservation, appealing a lower court decision allowing the prosecutor to try and punish Native Americans who aren't members of the tribe.
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April 30, 2026
The Trump administration agreed at a hearing Thursday to temporarily halt the use of 22 states' Medicaid data for immigration enforcement purposes until a San Francisco federal judge clarifies the boundaries of an injunction that the largely Democratic-controlled states had accused the government of flouting.
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April 30, 2026
Despite a partial dissent from the Federal Communications Commission's lone Democrat, the agency Thursday morning voted to approve a much-criticized plan to create a portal that consolidates bids for the E-rate program into one place.
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April 30, 2026
Two Indigenous groups say the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to narrow a provision of the Voting Rights Act that forbids discrimination on the basis of race "cruelly" undercuts a foundational tool for Native American voters and other minority voters to protect themselves.
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April 30, 2026
A coalition of tribal gaming groups and federally recognized tribes won permission on Thursday to file briefs backing Michigan officials in suits by Robinhood Derivatives LLC and Polymarket US over sports-related event contracts, arguing the companies' claims threaten to upend tribal-state gaming regulation and siphon revenue from tribal governments.
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April 30, 2026
U.S. senators voted unanimously on Thursday to ban themselves and their staff from trading on prediction markets.
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April 30, 2026
Arkansas is asking the Eighth Circuit to reject an appeal by two Cherokee Nation entities over the voter referendum revocation of a gaming license in Pope County, arguing that their claims omit crucial details in alleging that the state conspired to violate their constitutional rights.
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April 29, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission has its eye on the National Broadband Map, with plans to vote next month on launching a proceeding to explore how to cut red tape from the data collection process while also increasing the accuracy of the data being collected.