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April 15, 2026
Two Arizona nonprofits are asking a federal district court to deny the state's request to put a remanded Ninth Circuit dispute over voter roll purges on hold until the U.S. Supreme Court weighs in on the overall litigation, arguing the bid underestimates the potential delay a stay would cause.
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April 14, 2026
A group of 17 organizations including the Sierra Club and the American Lung Association sued the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in California federal court Monday, alleging that the agency failed to meet a deadline to strengthen national air standards for soot.
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April 14, 2026
A California federal judge on Tuesday granted an uncontested bid by school district plaintiffs to bar Meta and other social media companies from using nonpublic information — including their internal data — to investigate potential jurors for an upcoming bellwether trial in multidistrict litigation over the alleged harms of social media addiction.
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April 14, 2026
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed a state bill that would have banned prop bets on college athletes, blocked prediction markets from partnering with sports betting venues and operators, and raised the minimum sports gambling age to 21, citing a regulatory provision that was added as an amendment.
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April 14, 2026
Industry groups joined forces to tell federal lawmakers that it is time to pass a Republican-led package of permitting reforms to cut "red tape" and spur broadband development.
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April 14, 2026
The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments next month in the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe's bid to revive its claims that the federal government overcollected millions on a school debt obligation.
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April 14, 2026
Albertsons Cos. Inc. and the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Illinois and Oregon on Tuesday said that the pharmacy and grocery chain had agreed to a $773 million settlement in principle to end claims brought by states, local governments and Native American tribes over its role in the opioid crisis.
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April 14, 2026
A Nevada tribe is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Federal Circuit decision to dismiss its $208 million breach of trust claims against the United States, telling the justices that without intervention the ruling will reduce their homelands to "useless sand without water."
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April 13, 2026
Kalshi on Monday asked a federal court to block Montana from trying to limit the prediction market's operations in the state, arguing that the exchange can only be lawfully regulated under federal law — not state gambling laws.
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April 13, 2026
A Ninth Circuit judge expressed reluctance on Monday to revive a challenge to President Donald Trump's executive orders prioritizing fossil fuels to meet the country's energy needs, echoing a lower court's concern that the requested relief would give the judiciary the unmanageable task of scrutinizing countless federal agency actions.
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April 13, 2026
The Federal Communications Commission plans to vote this month to make changes to the E-rate program, which subsidizes internet service for schools and libraries, that it says will simplify the program and make it harder for people to commit fraud.
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April 13, 2026
A member of a Native American tribe has filed a lawsuit in Michigan federal court against two real estate companies that provide "hotel-style" apartments, saying the "dehumanizing" racial abuse he was subjected to when he worked as the companies' chief engineer left him unable to perform his job.
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April 13, 2026
A Montana federal judge shot down claims from environmental nonprofit groups that a logging project in the Garnet Mountains threatens endangered species, ruling that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management had met its statutory obligations to approve the project.
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April 13, 2026
A group hoping to use a 1700s law to stop sportsbooks from operating in Washington, D.C., filed an appeal on Monday of a federal judge's decision to throw out its suit against the city and the sportsbooks.
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April 13, 2026
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Native American Programs says it will allocate more than $1.1 billion in Indian Block Grant funding for almost 600 tribal nations to support affordable housing projects.
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April 13, 2026
An attorney who previously represented a faction of the California Valley Miwok Tribe says the federal government caused him to lose more than $9 million by approving the tribe's constitution, which contains a provision retroactively nullifying any previous agreements for the funds.
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April 13, 2026
After losing a bellwether trial last month in one of a slew of cases from plaintiffs who claim to have been harmed by social media, Meta has begun removing ads from attorneys seeking clients with similar claims.
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April 10, 2026
A Phoenix federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked Arizona from enforcing its gambling laws against federally regulated prediction markets, saying the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission are likely to succeed on their claims that Arizona's laws are preempted by federal law.
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April 10, 2026
Colorado's governor has claimed sovereign immunity in a federal lawsuit by the Ute Indian Tribe, which alleged it is being discriminated against due to its exclusion from a state law that gives members of its sister tribes free entrance to state parks on ancestral lands.
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April 10, 2026
The Trump administration is urging a Massachusetts federal judge not to expand his order blocking the U.S. Department of Education's collection of detailed college admissions data for several states' public institutions to cover additional schools, including private colleges.
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April 10, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Interior is asking a federal court to deny conservation groups' bid to block an order instructing U.S. National Park Service staff to remove signs containing information about slavery, Indigenous nations and climate change, saying their challenge is an "invitation to the political thicket."
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April 09, 2026
Counsel for 33 states and the District of Columbia on Thursday urged a Manhattan federal jury to show the world that even "a $36 billion behemoth" like Live Nation isn't above antitrust laws and find it liable for flagrantly monopolizing the U.S. live entertainment market, to the detriment of artists, venue operators and fans.
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April 09, 2026
A Ninth Circuit panel affirmed Thursday tossing youths' lawsuit alleging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's greenhouse gas "discount" program discriminates against children by favoring present-day consumption over future consumption, finding the kids' "sprawling and speculative causal theory" of alleged environmental harms aren't traceable to the government's policies.
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April 09, 2026
An Oklahoma federal judge has rejected a bid by the state and several poultry companies to enter consent decrees in their two-decade-old dispute, finding the agreements did not go far enough to address pollution of the Illinois River Watershed.
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April 09, 2026
Nearly a dozen Democratic U.S. senators are opposing a proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule that will limit states' and tribes' rights to block and regulate the effects of hydropower dams on water quality on their lands.