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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Wash. Tribes, River Group Fight FERC Hydro License

By Joyce Hanson

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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Osage Nation Asks 10th Circ. To Revisit Boundary Ruling

By Joyce Hanson

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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CFTC Seeks To Join Kalshi Fight Over Rhode Island Ban

By David Steele

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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LITIGATION

GCI Wants To End Service In 6 Alaska Communities

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

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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Kalshi Targets Minnesota Prediction Market Ban In New Suit

By Aislinn Keely

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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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Studying Foreign Languages Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Studying Italian and Japanese has shown me that learning a new language can benefit a legal career in several ways, including by demonstrating the importance of approaching problems from a fresh perspective and the value of practicing patience with colleagues and clients, says Anna King at Genworth Financial.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Florida High Court Adopts AI Policy For Lawyers

By Madison Arnold

The Florida Supreme Court on Thursday amended the state's rules to require those filing court documents to check any artificial intelligence-generated content for accuracy, and allow for sanctions if the content contains errors.

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Goldstein Says Bad Jury Instructions Warrant New Trial

By Jared Foretek

SCOTUSblog founder Tom Goldstein said that the prosecutors who convicted him on 12 tax and mortgage fraud charges in February are now contradicting arguments they made at the end of his trial in their attempt to deny him a bench acquittal or new trial.

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King & Spalding Blocked From Exiting $300M Fraud Lawsuit

By Brian Steele

King & Spalding LLP and Lennon Murphy & Phillips LLC can't withdraw from representing clients in consolidated litigation over an alleged $300 million stock swindle, a Connecticut state court judge has ruled, saying the firms' motions ahead of a June trial lack good cause.

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Fla. Court Refers Atty To Bar Over Bogus Case Citations

By Madison Arnold

A Florida state appeals court has referred an appellant's attorney to the state's bar for disciplinary proceedings after filing a petition that appears to be generated by artificial intelligence and "raises frivolous arguments, misstates the law, and cites non-existent case law."

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Parents Demand 'Bad Faith' Sanctions In Camp Mystic Case

By Lynn LaRowe

Camp Mystic in Texas' Hill Country should be sanctioned over "bad faith" conduct in litigation over flooding deaths last summer, including purported misrepresentations to courts and regulators and an alleged remark by one of its attorneys to a plaintiffs' lawyer that he would "burn in hell," a state court has been told.

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Trump Considers Tech Entrepreneur For DOJ Grants Post

By Courtney Bublé

President Donald Trump appears poised to nominate a real estate attorney turned tech entrepreneur for a top U.S. Department of Justice post that oversees grants and criminal justice programs.

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Dem Sens. Ask DOJ To Preserve Trump-IRS Settlement Docs

By Jack McLoone

Two Democratic Senate leaders asked the U.S. Department of Justice to preserve any records related to the settlement of President Donald Trump's suit against the IRS in a letter published Thursday, signaling that further investigations may be coming.

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Roundup

Injury Law Roundup: Freight Brokers, Uber Lose Key Cases

By Y. Peter Kang

The U.S. Supreme Court's green light of negligent hiring claims against freight brokers in highway crash cases and an adverse verdict against Uber in the sexual assault multidistrict litigation lead Law360's Injury Law Roundup.

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Ex-Fla. Chief Justice Fred Lewis Dies At 78

By Carolina Bolado

Former Florida Chief Justice R. Fred Lewis, who spent two decades on the bench of the Florida Supreme Court, has died at 78, the court announced Thursday.

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Titan Of The Plaintiffs Bar: Gupta Wessler's Deepak Gupta

By Daniel Moritz-Rabson

In the decade and a half since starting his own firm, Deepak Gupta has argued seven cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, has won matters in state high courts from coast to coast, and has become a mainstay in federal appellate courts while building his plaintiff-side litigation boutique into a sought-after juggernaut.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Fried Goldberg

Allegaert Berger

Arnold & Itkin

Carlton Fields

Castagna Scott

Cohen Milstein

Cooley LLP

Freiwald Law

Gilmartin Magence

Greene Espel

Gupta Wessler

Hinckley Allen

King & Spalding

Lennon Murphy

Ligris & Associates

McCarter & English

Milbank LLP

Morgan & Morgan PA

Munger Tolles

Nix Patterson

Ross LLP

Talley Turner

Townsend Law Firm

Watts Law Firm

Wiggin & Dana

Wright Close Barger & Guzman

Yetter Coleman

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AT&T Inc.

Alliance for Cooperative Energy Services

Audi AG

Banyan

Boston University

C.H. Robinson Worldwide Inc.

CATIC Financial Inc.

Citigroup Inc.

Columbia Riverkeeper

Council on Criminal Justice

Genworth Financial Inc.

Gerald Holdings LLC

Google LLC

Harvard University

LinkedIn Corp.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Merck & Co. Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Monsanto Co.

NVIDIA Corp.

Natural Resources Defense Council

Quince

Sierra Club

Snap Inc.

Stavvy Inc.

The Florida Bar

TikTok Inc.

Uber Technologies Inc.

University of Miami

Volkswagen AG

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Executive Office of the President

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Florida Supreme Court

Internal Revenue Service

Minnesota Attorney General's Office

National Marine Fisheries Service

Nez Perce Tribe

Office of Justice Programs

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Oklahoma Attorney General's Office

Oklahoma Tax Commission

Supreme Court of Nevada

Texas Health and Human Services Commission

Texas Tenth Court of Appeals

U.S. Army

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland

U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota

U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma

Washington State Department of Ecology