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February 11, 2026
A Michigan tribe is asking a D.C. district court to reconsider the denial of $1.5 million in legal fees the tribe had sought to recoup from the U.S. Department of the Interior in a federal recognition status dispute that eventually led to the agency's revamping of a rule allowing tribes to petition for recognition again.
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February 11, 2026
The Muscogee (Creek) Nation has pushed back against an Oklahoma municipality's bid to stay a jurisdiction dispute in federal district court while a similar challenge plays out in the Tenth Circuit, saying that the two cases aren't covering the same ground.
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February 10, 2026
The Indian Health Service has announced it will phase out the use of dental fillings containing mercury at its facilities over the next year.
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February 10, 2026
A nonprofit aimed at "overcoming identity politics" cannot preliminarily block a Washington state housing program designed to reduce racial disparities in homeownership, a Seattle federal judge ruled, saying the group has not shown it is likely to succeed on its claim that the program is unconstitutional.
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February 10, 2026
A California federal judge denied social media companies' bid for a summary judgment win on a bellwether school district's allegations it was forced to spend its limited resources on combating students' purported social media addictions, teeing up the first bellwether trial in the multidistrict litigation for June 15.
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February 10, 2026
New York's Board of Regents is fighting a request by a Long Island school district to alter a judgment that dismissed its challenge to the state's ban on the use of Indigenous imagery in public schools, arguing that it has shown no new evidence that would change the dispute's outcome.
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February 10, 2026
New Jersey Democratic U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. has introduced a resolution that would ban the use of unsanctioned Indigenous imagery in public schools, saying it is a pushback on the Trump administration's recent efforts to stop state and local officials from retiring the harmful symbols.
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February 10, 2026
A California federal judge granted the Trump administration's push to block part of a new Golden State law requiring federal agents to stop hiding their faces behind masks, but said another law requiring them to display identification can take effect.
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February 09, 2026
A Ninth Circuit judge expressed skepticism Monday as the Trump administration argued it could legally impose new rules barring federal grant recipients from using the money for diversity programming, suggesting that the government had misread Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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February 09, 2026
The ballooning appetite for data centers and the electricity needed to power them is pitting developers against each other for construction equipment and a workforce, creating a cycle that may ultimately be a drag on development.
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February 09, 2026
The Round Valley Indian Tribes and three individual members are asking a California federal court to render final judgment on two dismissed claims in its suit alleging authorities illegally raided members' properties over cannabis, so the dismissals can be appealed to the Ninth Circuit.
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February 09, 2026
An Alaskan tribal corporation is suing a Colorado consultant and her firm, alleging that she used its trade secret information to attempt to lure government contracting clients away by publicly advertising the data and claiming it as her own.
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February 09, 2026
Broadband trade group USTelecom is throwing its weight behind a petition that says the Federal Communications Commission must put protections in place to ensure that 911 services aren't disrupted as telecoms rush to retire copper phone lines.
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February 09, 2026
The United States and North Dakota have reached a settlement in a $28 million dispute over protesters' efforts to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline in which the state alleged that the Army Corps and federal officials failed to manage the massive crowds.
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February 09, 2026
A proposed class action brought by law students last year challenging the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's requests for diversity data from 20 law firms ended Monday with the government agreeing compliance "was not mandatory, and that most law firms did not provide any of the requested information."
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February 09, 2026
The government is backing a bid by Enbridge Energy Inc. to stay an order requiring the partial removal of its Line 5 pipeline that runs through Wisconsin tribal lands, saying that while it has an interest in protecting federal trust lands, the case implicates significant interests in foreign affairs.
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February 06, 2026
Online direct lender WithU and California fintech platform Scratchpay were hit with a proposed class action in Washington federal court on Friday by a consumer who claims he was cornered into borrowing a loan with a nearly 568% interest rate to pay for his cat's cancer treatment.
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February 06, 2026
D.C. Circuit judges struggled Friday with whether to unblock a federal funding freeze carrying multitrillion-dollar implications, as a Trump administration lawyer disclaimed interest in a vast spending halt but also dodged opportunities to rule it out unequivocally.
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February 06, 2026
Prediction market platform Kalshi has told a Wisconsin federal court that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission's chair has thrown his support behind the agency's view that it has exclusive jurisdiction over the event contracts at issue in a Native American tribe's case against the company.
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February 06, 2026
The Bureau of Indian Affairs and one of its police officers have been hit with a wrongful death lawsuit in North Dakota federal court claiming the BIA officer shot and killed a resident of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa within the tribe's reservation.
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February 06, 2026
A Massachusetts state court on Friday gave Kalshi 30 days to comply with a preliminary injunction barring the prediction market from offering new sports-related event contracts to state residents, denying a request for a stay pending an anticipated appeal.
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February 05, 2026
The Eight Circuit ruled that a Minnesota farmer can't block White Earth Tribal Court proceedings in federal court while his river water permitting case is still being litigated in the tribe's court system.
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February 05, 2026
A California federal judge overseeing discovery in litigation against social media giants over their effect on youth mental health ordered Meta to provide plaintiffs with updated data on the amount of time users spend on Instagram and Facebook, after state attorneys general argued Meta had skewed the times downward.
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February 05, 2026
A Timbisha Shoshone tribal band has joined conservation groups in filing a California federal court suit to stop exploratory mine drilling near the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge's wetlands, saying the U.S. Bureau of Land Management refuses to comply with the Endangered Species Act.
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February 04, 2026
Two tribes in Washington state have sued the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and other federal agencies on claims the government unfairly told them they weren't eligible to apply for $240 million of Pacific salmon hatchery funds under the Inflation Reduction Act.