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April 29, 2026
Lummi Nation says the remains of its ancestors have been disturbed by a federally funded broadband project in what it calls a "cascading series of preventable and unlawful failures" in a lawsuit against the federal government, a telecommunications company and a county in Washington.
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April 29, 2026
A former Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorney has moved to Robinhood to join the financial trading platform's litigation and regulatory enforcement team.
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April 29, 2026
Five Oklahoma tribal members are asking a Federal Claims Court to order the U.S. government to provide a full accounting of oil and gas leasing royalties they say are owed to more than 10,000 Indigenous landowners, arguing it failed to properly manage the funds.
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April 29, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission asked a New Mexico federal court to force a school district to turn over several years of employee and applicant data, the latest escalation in a Native American bias investigation that the district has criticized as vague and overly broad.
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April 29, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's congressional map containing two majority-Black voting districts Wednesday and further limited the Voting Rights Act's use in challenging racial discrimination in legislative redistricting — a decision the dissent claims completes the conservative majority's "demolition" of the seminal civil rights law.
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April 28, 2026
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission on Tuesday added Wisconsin to the list of states it's taking to court to assert its "exclusive jurisdiction" over prediction markets after the state accused five platforms of offering illegal bets through their event contract offerings.
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April 28, 2026
OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma LP has to pay a $3.5 billion fine and forfeit an additional $2 billion, more than five years after it pled guilty to criminal charges related to its role in the opioid crisis, a New Jersey federal judge said Tuesday.
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April 28, 2026
Importers have successfully submitted more than 11.2 million entries to Customs and Border Protection's tariff refund system, and more than 1.7 million imports have been validated and are ready for refunds, a CBP official told the U.S. Court of International Trade on Tuesday.
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April 28, 2026
J.R. Simplot Co. is asking the Ninth Circuit to stay pending U.S. Supreme Court review of its decision to invalidate an Idaho land transfer by the U.S. Department of the Interior that would have allowed it to expand its phosphogypsum plant near tribal lands, saying the issue has already caused "robust debate" in the appellate court.
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April 28, 2026
A U.S. Army sergeant who helped plan the capture of deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro pled not guilty in Manhattan federal court Tuesday to profiting by at least $365,000 by gambling on the raid on Polymarket.
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April 28, 2026
Descendants of those once enslaved by the Choctaw Nation are asking for federal recognition, arguing that constitutional and international law, and an 1866 treaty between the U.S. and the Five Civilized Tribes that abolished slavery post-Civil War give them the right to the status.
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April 27, 2026
After a run of litigation losses, Meta Platforms Inc. will have to rethink its strategy in and out of court in an effort to beat back suits from coast to coast claiming that it is illegally hooking kids on Instagram, experts said, with everything from aggressive litigation to a global settlement on the table.
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April 27, 2026
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt and the federal government have asked a D.C. federal court to hand them a win in a long-running lawsuit over tribal gambling compacts, arguing that the four tribal nations suing them fail to show that they violated the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.
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April 27, 2026
House lawmakers are drafting a reform bill for the Federal Communications Commission's broadband subsidy programs that could be introduced in just a few weeks, a key Republican said Monday.
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April 27, 2026
The federal official in charge of a multibillion-dollar broadband deployment program on Monday reinforced the U.S. Commerce Department's stance that providers receiving grants will not be given leeway on network performance or other contract obligations.
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April 27, 2026
Ohio gambling regulators have the green light to crack down on Kalshi's sports event contracts after the Sixth Circuit denied the company's bid to keep them at bay amid litigation over whether those offerings violate state gambling laws.
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April 27, 2026
A Federal Circuit panel says the federal government is not liable for the death of a Utah tribal member who died nearly 20 years ago in a police-involved shooting on reservation lands, upholding a lower court's decision that his family failed to prove that a local officer fired the fatal shot.
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April 27, 2026
Live Nation Entertainment Inc. sparred with state attorneys general expected to seek a forced Ticketmaster sale after winning a New York federal jury antitrust verdict, with the company seeking to delay the breakup fight until after the judge reviews a separate U.S. Department of Justice settlement, and the enforcers preferring parallel proceedings.
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April 24, 2026
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission sued the state of New York Friday in its latest bid to assert "exclusive jurisdiction" over prediction markets and cut through the state's attempts to shut down certain event contract trading as unregistered gambling.
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April 24, 2026
The launch of the refund process for tariffs struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court marks the start of lengthy and multifaceted court battles as companies fight with consumers — and amongst themselves — about who gets a slice of the $166 billion pie, experts told Law360.
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April 24, 2026
The Trump administration has said that a federal committee's recent exemption of oil and gas activities in the Gulf of Mexico from Endangered Species Act requirements moots a lawsuit challenging federal evaluations of offshore drilling's effects on endangered species.
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April 24, 2026
The Schools, Health & Libraries Broadband Coalition already raised the alarm earlier this month about the FCC's plan to consolidate E-rate program bids into a single portal, but now it's back with dozens of education and library organizations that also think the portal is a bad idea.
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April 24, 2026
Conservation groups looking to block an Interior Department order regarding the removal of signs containing information about slavery, Indigenous nations and climate change from national park sites say the directive has caused them to divert resources and pressured their members to self-censor or defy best practices for historical interpretations.
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April 24, 2026
A coalition of Colorado federal lawmakers introduced legislation this week that will prioritize drinking water projects for tribal communities in the Upper Colorado River Basin by increasing funding for programs by $10 million annually.
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April 24, 2026
Wisconsin has joined the fight with other states to regulate prediction market platforms under their respective state gambling laws, telling a Wisconsin state court that the platforms are engaging in criminal activity and creating a public nuisance.