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July 20, 2026
Former U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Timothy Massad said Monday that the agency has "lost its way" with a prediction market rule proposal that misinterprets the agency's mission and statutes to turn it into a national sports betting regulator.
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July 20, 2026
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said a New Mexico school board hasn't explained why it failed to exhaust administrative remedies to challenge the agency's subpoenas seeking employment and applicant data as part of its investigation into alleged race discrimination.
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July 20, 2026
A Washington state court judge on Monday granted the state's bid to preliminarily enjoin Kalshi's operations in the state, agreeing with Attorney General Nick Brown that the prediction market platform offers unlicensed sports wagering and other illegal online gambling activities.
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July 20, 2026
A California federal judge has denied Meta Platforms Inc.'s bid to exclude testimony from a damages expert offered by a coalition of 29 states from an upcoming trial in a suit alleging Facebook and Instagram are intentionally addictive.
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July 20, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Interior is asking the Seventh Circuit to reject a Wisconsin village's appeal that seeks to undo the agency's decision to place 500 acres into trust for the Oneida Nation, arguing that the municipality can't overcome Congress' power to regulate Indian affairs.
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July 20, 2026
Rural telecoms are pressing lawmakers to advance a new bill to improve granular detail to broadband maps across the U.S. introduced by Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D.
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July 20, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court last week tackled disputes involving intellectual property, corporate control, fiduciary duties, artificial intelligence, trust administration and cryptocurrency litigation.
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July 20, 2026
Fierce litigation over sports offerings on prediction market platforms came to define the first half of the year for the sports betting industry. Here, Law360 breaks down the moments that defined prediction market litigation in the first half of 2026 and what attorneys will be watching in the months to come.
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July 18, 2026
Kalshi told a Michigan judge that it will remain in compliance with a court order that instructed it to unwind certain residents' sports trades because it has no way to meet a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission directive to defy the court and reinstate the contracts.
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July 17, 2026
A California federal judge overseeing an upcoming trial over states' social media addiction claims against Meta took issue with both sides' "extreme" penalty estimates during a pretrial hearing Friday, saying the states' $1.4 trillion proposal is "unreasonable," but Meta's $4 million estimate "is not even a slap on the hand."
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July 17, 2026
The state of New Mexico told a federal judge that a U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission suit over prediction market regulation shouldn't stand, since the agency can't show how it's been harmed by the state's attempts to enforce its gaming laws against Kalshi.
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July 17, 2026
Change is on the way for the Universal Service Administrative Co., which manages the Federal Communications Commission's multibillion-dollar subsidy fund, with the agency signaling its plans to consider slashing the company's board by more than a third.
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July 17, 2026
An Alaskan district judge is asking the federal government, the state of Alaska and an Indigenous corporation to provide an anticipated construction timeline for a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge.
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July 17, 2026
An Alaska Native corporation urged a federal court to toss a proposed class action alleging the company saddled its 401(k) plan with excessive fees and underperforming investments, arguing the case is based on ill-suited comparisons and minor performance differences.
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July 16, 2026
The federal government has told the Eleventh Circuit it doesn't have jurisdiction to hear an appeal from conservation groups challenging the Trump administration's approval of BP PLC's Kaskida offshore oil and gas drilling project in the Gulf of Mexico.
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July 16, 2026
Michigan environmental regulators reissued key state permits for Enbridge Energy's proposed Great Lakes Tunnel project, allowing the company to continue pursuing approvals needed to replace the aging Line 5 pipelines beneath the Straits of Mackinac, while tribal leaders and environmental groups vowed to challenge the decision.
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July 16, 2026
The Eighth Circuit won't rethink an order that upheld the sentences of a mother and son convicted of the murder of a man on the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian Reservation, after the pair argued that footage of the incident shouldn't have been admitted because of gaps in the recording.
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July 16, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court has ruled that Fifth Third Bank must participate in discovery in litigation accusing Arden Trust Co. of mismanaging two congressionally created trust funds for displaced Bikini Atoll residents, while putting on hold Arden's separate claim seeking indemnification from the bank until the underlying case is resolved.
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July 16, 2026
A Washington federal judge has ordered Whidbey Telephone to give a tribe notice before resuming ground-disturbing work on a federally funded broadband project that had disturbed remains of the tribe's ancestors.
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July 16, 2026
Since Washington Supreme Court Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis announced in January she wouldn't seek a second term on the high court, three sitting judges have entered the race for her open seat: a Seattle state trial court judge, a member of Washington's Court of Appeals and a superior court judge in rural Mason County.
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July 15, 2026
The Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, WildEarth Guardians and a half dozen other environmental groups have become the latest to challenge the Trump administration's new definition of "harm" under the Endangered Species Act, initiating a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to restore the meaning that's been the prevailing interpretation for 50 years.
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July 15, 2026
Federal appeals courts had wide-ranging successes and struggles during the U.S. Supreme Court's recently completed term: One had its best showing in years following its worst showing in years; one felt déjà vu after recently starting to find favor with the justices; and one saw its reputation for independence occupy a rare role in the Supreme Court spotlight.
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July 15, 2026
The Trump administration is asking the D.C. Circuit to pause a district judge's injunction ordering the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reinstate more than $100 million in land access program grants aimed at assisting "underserved" farmers, arguing that the case belongs in the Court of Federal Claims.
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July 15, 2026
The former director of Utah's School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration has asked a federal judge to dismiss a Native American tribe's most recent complaint in a race-based suit claiming state officials conspired to freeze the tribe out of a land sale, saying he didn't discriminate against the tribe.
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July 15, 2026
After months of agency staff looking into possible changes to high-speed connectivity programs, the Federal Communications Commission is set to vote on a plan next month that would alter the structure of the outside company that manages the funds.