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January 30, 2026
The Eighth Circuit Friday refused to revive a group of landowning Three Affiliated Tribes members' lawsuit accusing oil pipeline operator Andeavor of trespassing across their North Dakota reservation lands, with a panel majority concluding that the members had no federal common law trespass claim.
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January 30, 2026
Oklahoma's governor and wildlife department have urged the Oklahoma Supreme Court to give them control over hunting and fishing rights on tribal reservation lands so they can issue state-managed permits, arguing that an opinion by the state's attorney general wrongly says federal law prohibits such permitting.
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January 30, 2026
A California federal judge has denied the bulk of two motions to dismiss a suit from the Round Valley Indian Tribes and three of its members alleging that their properties were illegally raided for growing cannabis, dismissing only the claims that law enforcement officers didn't have jurisdiction over the properties.
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January 30, 2026
An Idaho federal judge has approved a proposed consent decree calling for two Nu-West companies and the U.S. government to share costs to implement remediation work for a North Maybe Mine site in Caribou County.
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January 29, 2026
A Tennessee federal judge has denied a bid by tribal groups including the Indian Gaming Association and the National Congress of American Indians to file an amicus brief in prediction market Kalshi's suit against state gambling regulators over the company's sports wagers.
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January 29, 2026
A Minnesota county and two of its townships are appealing to the Eighth Circuit a lower court's order that dismissed a challenge to a U.S. Department of the Interior decision to take more than 3,000 acres into trust for the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe.
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January 29, 2026
The Trump administration has urged a D.C. federal court to reject New York's attempt to undo the suspension of an Ørsted subsidiary's offshore wind project, saying the state has only claimed distant and derivative economic harm.
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January 29, 2026
Two dispensary owners are suing Hawaii's attorney general and the Hawaii State Department of Health, alleging that the state's new law regulating hemp products is preempted by the 2018 Farm Bill and violates the supremacy clause by criminalizing conduct Congress legalized.
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January 29, 2026
Scotland's University of Edinburgh is returning the remains of six Muscogee (Creek) Nation individuals in what it says it believes is the first international repatriation of Native American ancestral remains to the United States' mainland.
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January 28, 2026
A coalition of unions, nonprofit organizations and local governments that are challenging the Trump administration's federal worker layoffs and agency reorganizations asked a California federal judge Tuesday for permission to add the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a defendant, saying ongoing staff cuts threaten its legally mandated responsibility to respond to disasters.
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January 28, 2026
Democrats are bristling against a plan by the Federal Communications Commission to reduce purported fraud in the Lifeline program, where the agency says some states enrolled dead people and others who don't qualify.
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January 28, 2026
Enbridge Energy Inc. is looking to pause a shutdown order of a segment of its Line 5 pipeline that runs through Wisconsin tribal lands pending its Seventh Circuit appeal, arguing to a Wisconsin district court that a cutoff would cause disproportionate economic harm and energy shortages.
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January 28, 2026
Two Cherokee Nation entities say an Arkansas federal court "struck out on its own" when it dismissed claims over the revocation of an Arkansas-issued gambling license, telling the Eighth Circuit that the decision sets a dangerous precedent that will haunt the state as it seeks multimillion-dollar investors.
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January 28, 2026
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed to reapprove pollution control plans from several states as part of its effort to undo a Biden-era rule curbing cross-border smog formation that was halted by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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January 28, 2026
Lawmakers in New Mexico's legislature are looking to update the employment rules for medical cannabis patients who work for the state or "political subdivisions" to prohibit bosses from taking adverse actions for lawful off-duty use.
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January 28, 2026
A group of 150 hospitals suing generic-drug makers for alleged price fixing in multidistrict litigation should hand over data on their drug purchases, the drugmakers have told a Pennsylvania federal court, arguing they don't sell directly to the hospitals and therefore have no records themselves.
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January 27, 2026
Four members of Congress have introduced a bill that would protect language access at federal agencies for millions of people in the United States with limited English, saying an executive order by President Donald Trump declaring English as the official U.S. language wrongly minimizes multilingual services.
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February 12, 2026
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January 27, 2026
A group of Wisconsin homeowners is asking the Seventh Circuit to revive its claims that local political jurisdictions of the Menominee Indian Tribe joined forces to increase the homeowners' tax burden, arguing a lower court was wrong to dismiss the case.
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January 27, 2026
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday that it is seeking the public's input on the health effects from fluoride in water, which it could use to develop changes to the standards for safe levels.
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January 27, 2026
Churchill Downs Inc. and its subsidiaries are asking a federal court to block the state of Maine from enforcing a law that will allow its four tribal governments to operate online gaming, arguing that the statute is race-based and deals "a gut-wrenching" blow to the state's other businesses and citizens.
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January 27, 2026
Trading platform Kalshi is expanding its policy efforts amid battles with state gambling regulators and tribes with a new office in Washington, D.C., staffed by government relations specialists, including a former Amazon executive who spent close to a decade with the Mississippi Attorney General's Office.
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January 27, 2026
A Long Island school district is asking a federal district court to alter its judgment dismissing a challenge to New York's ban on the use of Indigenous imagery, saying the district faces an "imminent and actual threat" of federal Civil Rights Act enforcement if it complies with the state law.
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January 27, 2026
TikTok reached an eleventh-hour settlement late Monday in the first bellwether trial over claims that social media harms young users' mental health, cutting the deal days after Snap settled and leaving Meta and YouTube as the sole defendants as jury selection began Tuesday.
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January 26, 2026
A California federal judge appeared skeptical Monday about dismissing school districts' claims that social media companies harmed them by getting their students addicted to their platforms, telling defense counsel that the case poses "classic" factual disputes for a jury, and setting the first bellwether trial in the multidistrict litigation for June 15.