Four Oklahoma tribes are asking a D.C. federal court to lift a more-than-yearlong stay in their suit challenging the state and federal governments over gaming compacts — aiming to renew a bid for a partial win in the dispute and saying developments and recent authorities in the case will further their action.
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Oklahoma Tribes Ask Court To Reopen Gaming Compact Row

By Crystal Owens

Four Oklahoma tribes are asking a D.C. federal court to lift a more-than-yearlong stay in their suit challenging the state and federal governments over gaming compacts — aiming to renew a bid for a partial win in the dispute and saying developments and recent authorities in the case will further their action.

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Trump Can't Reorganize Gov't Without Congress, Groups Say

By Beverly Banks

President Donald Trump lacks the power to reorganize the executive branch and push for mass terminations of workers when Congress hasn't given its blessing, unions and other groups told a California federal court.

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BNSF Says Tribe's $400M Trespass Win Unjustly Taps Profits

By Greg Lamm

BNSF Railway Co. has urged the Ninth Circuit to derail the nearly $400 million a trial judge ruled it owes for years of illegally running oil cars across a Washington tribe's land, saying the disgorgement judgment goes after legitimate profits far removed from where the trespassing occurred.

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LITIGATION

Michigan Asks Justices To Sustain Remand Of Pipeline Fight

By Keith Goldberg

The Michigan attorney general on Tuesday told the U.S. Supreme Court that there's no need for it to review a Sixth Circuit decision remanding to state court a lawsuit seeking to shut down an Enbridge Energy LP crude oil and natural gas pipeline.

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Koi Nation Can't Intervene In Casino Row, Court Told

By Crystal Owens

The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria is fighting a bid by a fellow California tribe at the crux of a dispute over the Interior Department's decision to take 70 acres into trust for the construction of a proposed hotel and casino project, arguing it lacks any justification to do so.

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Insurers Say 9th Circ. Extended Tribal Jurisdiction Too Far

By Hope Patti

A group of insurers again urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Ninth Circuit decision ordering them to litigate COVID-19 coverage claims in Suquamish Tribal Court, saying Tuesday that the lower court's conception of tribal sovereignty is so broad that even the tribe is unwilling to defend it.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

The 2025 Lawyer Satisfaction Survey

Law firms and the legal profession are facing new uncertainties, shifting the stress levels, economic pressures, and overall contentment of lawyers in private practice, according to the 2025 Law360 Pulse Lawyer Satisfaction Survey.

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'The Court Is Not A Cartoon': Judge Rips Dragon Watermark

By Hailey Konnath

A Michigan federal magistrate judge Monday ordered an East Lansing, Michigan, firm called Dragon Lawyers PC to stop plastering its pleadings with a large, suit-clad purple cartoon dragon watermark on each page, saying it's not only "distracting, it's juvenile and impertinent."

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Analysis

Feds Have Strong Hand On Judge Charged With Blocking ICE

By Danielle Ferguson and Carolyn Muyskens

A Wisconsin state judge faces an uphill battle in defending against federal criminal allegations that she helped a man evade immigration officials at a Wisconsin courthouse, but she may be able to stake out a defense in arguing the government can't prove intent, experts told Law360. 

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California Judge Loses Pay After Conviction For Murdering Wife

By Gina Kim

The California Commission on Judicial Performance formally suspended a California judge without pay after a state jury found him guilty of second-degree murder last week for shooting his wife to death in their Anaheim Hills home on Aug. 3, 2023, following a heated argument. 

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Q&A

Sullivan M&A Chief Sees Opportunities Amid Tariff Turmoil

By Al Barbarino

After a rocky start to 2025, the mergers and acquisitions landscape is grappling with economic volatility, shifting trade policies and a complex regulatory environment. But even in a "choppy" market, there are always deals to be made, says Melissa Sawyer, global head of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP's M&A group and co-head of its corporate governance practice.

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NJ Judge Apologizes Through Waylon Jennings Lyrics

By George Woolston

Clark Township, New Jersey, Municipal Judge Antonio Inacio said Tuesday that he isn't proud of all the things that led him to appear before a Garden State judiciary disciplinary committee, but he can say that he never intentionally hurt anyone by his conduct.

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$10M Brown Rudnick Deal With Guo Trustee Gets Judge's OK

By Aaron Keller

A Connecticut bankruptcy judge on Tuesday approved a $10 million deal between Miles Guo's Chapter 11 trustee and the Chinese exile's onetime attorneys at Brown Rudnick LLP, and greenlighted 10 lesser settlements with other firms and luxury retailer Versace.

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Analysis

GOP Plan To Shutter Audit Watchdog Could Strain SEC

By Jessica Corso

Congressional Republicans are renewing the push to get rid of a financial regulator that conservatives have complained is costly and lacks proper oversight, but some former staffers at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board wonder whether the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has the manpower or expertise to take over the board's duties.

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Federal Defenders Of NY Staff Announce Union Drive

By Andrea Keckley

Staff members at the Federal Defenders of New York have announced their plans to join their attorney colleagues as members of the Association of Legal Advocates and Attorneys.

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Justices Scoff At Feds' Defenses In Mistaken FBI Raid Case

By Chart Riggall

Supreme Court justices Tuesday appeared flummoxed by the government's "ridiculous" arguments it should be immune to a Georgia resident's lawsuit over a mistaken FBI raid on her house, but seemed unlikely to issue a blanket ruling on when an officer's discretion trumps their liability for injuries caused by their actions.

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Alex Jones Wants High Court Look At $1.3B Sandy Hook Case

By Brian Steele

Bankrupt Infowars host Alex Jones will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate a mammoth libel judgment that families of Sandy Hook shooting victims secured against him and his company over his conspiratorial broadcasts calling the massacre a hoax, he told a Connecticut appellate court in seeking to extend a pause on the payout.

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Breyer To Talk Pragmatism At NJ Bar Association Convention

By Carla Baranauckas

Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer will bring his pragmatic legal philosophy to center stage when he appears at the New Jersey State Bar Association Convention on May 16 in Atlantic City.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Altshuler Berzon

ArentFox Schiff LLP

Baker & Hostetler

Broocks Law Firm

Brown Rudnick

Clement & Murphy

Cohn Birnbaum

Dickinson Wright

Dorsey & Whitney

Forsberg & Umlauf

GPS Legal

Gibson Dunn

Gordon Thomas Honeywell

Haynes Boone

Hodgson Russ

Hueston Hennigan

Jensen Morse Baker

King & Spalding

Kirkland & Ellis

Koskoff Koskoff

Lether Law Group

Lowenstein Sandler

McManimon Scotland

Milbank LLP

NachtLaw

Neubert Pepe

Pacifica Law Group

Randazza Legal Group

Ryan Whaley

Shartsis Friese

Sonosky Chambers

Spero Law LLC

Steptoe LLP

Sullivan & Cromwell

Tousley Brain

Weil Gotshal

Zelle LLP

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

AT&T Inc.

American Federation of Government Employees

American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations

American Federation of State County & Municipal Employees

American Geophysical Union

American International Group Inc.

American Public Health Association

Apple Inc.

Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.

BNSF Railway Co.

Democracy Forward Foundation

Drummond

Enbridge Energy Partners LP

FTI Consulting Inc.

Gleason Corp.

Institute for Justice

Lexington Insurance Co.

LinkedIn Corp.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Natural Resources Defense Council

New Jersey State Bar Association

Plains Commerce Bank

Protect Democracy Project Inc.

Public Co. Accounting Oversight Board

Service Employees International Union

State Bar of Michigan

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Tribe

Bureau of Indian Affairs

California Commission on Judicial Performance

Chickasaw Nation

Citizen Potawatomi Nation

Comanche Nation

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria

Kialegee Tribal Town

Mescalero Apache Tribe

National Labor Relations Board

National Science Foundation

New Jersey Supreme Court

Oklahoma Supreme Court

Otoe-Missouria Tribe

Small Business Administration

Social Security Administration

Suquamish Tribe

Swinomish Indian Tribal Community

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Wisconsin

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Agriculture

U.S. Department of Commerce

U.S. Department of Defense

U.S. Department of Energy

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

U.S. Department of the Interior

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

U.S. General Services Administration

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Office of Personnel Management

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

U.S. Supreme Court

US Office of Management and Budget

United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians

United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut