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May 13, 2025
Feds Challenge Montana Tribes' Full Police Funding Demand

The U.S. Department of the Interior is asking a federal court to deny two Montana tribes a summary judgment win in their challenge over inadequate police funding, arguing the agency has gone above and beyond what the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act requires for money allocations.
May 13, 2025
Gov't To Restore Climate Webpages After Lawsuit Pressure

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is reversing course and has committed to restore climate change-focused webpages that were taken offline following the January presidential inauguration, according to a court filing in a lawsuit from environmental groups challenging the removals.
May 13, 2025
WNBA's Connecticut Sun Put Up For Sale By Mohegan Tribe

The WNBA's Connecticut Sun, owned by a subsidiary of the Mohegan Tribe of southern Connecticut, are exploring a sale, Law360 has confirmed.
May 13, 2025
Lawsuit Challenging Trump Energy Order May Be Premature

States may have good reasons to fight President Donald Trump's declaration of a national energy emergency, but courts may be unwilling to evaluate the strength of a new suit from 15 states in the absence of expedited energy project approvals.
May 13, 2025
Senator Asks Interior For More SD Tribal Police Funding

Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota has asked U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum for more funding to support hiring efforts by tribal police in the state, requesting in a letter that he consider establishing a permanent tribal law enforcement training center on the Great Plains.
May 13, 2025
SD Tribe's $1M School Debt Challenge Dismissed

A federal court judge dismissed a South Dakota tribe's challenge alleging the Interior Department overcollected on a $1 million school debt obligation, finding Tuesday that while the tribe's argument is creative, there is no support for it in statute or case law.
May 13, 2025
The Man Who Ended Affirmative Action Is Just Getting Started

Nearly two years after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, the legal strategist who brought the landmark case is using the ruling in a bid to end race-based programs in the public and private sectors, bolstered by allies in the executive branch.
May 13, 2025
States Grapple With Feds Revoking Digital Equity Grants

States that received grant money under the $2.75 billion Digital Equity Act are scrambling to figure out their next steps after the Trump administration called the program "unconstitutional" and cut off their funding in recent days.
May 13, 2025
Climate NGOs Attack EPA Appeal In Funding Clawback Fight

Climate investment groups asked the D.C. Circuit to affirm a district court ruling blocking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from clawing back billions of dollars disbursed to them under the Inflation Reduction Act, characterizing its actions as "textbook arbitrariness."
May 12, 2025
W.Va. High Court Declines 4th Circ. Request For Opioid Input

The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals on Monday declined the Fourth Circuit's request to answer whether the state's public nuisance law applies to the distribution of opioids, saying disputed facts in litigation between local governments and drug distribution companies must first be resolved.
May 12, 2025
Feds Say Tribal Tariff Dispute Must Stay In US Trade Court

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is fighting Montana tribal members' attempt to stop the transfer of their lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's Canada tariff orders from federal court to the U.S. Court of International Trade, saying the CIT has exclusive jurisdiction over the case.
May 12, 2025
Judge Blocks Oak Flat Land Transfer Until High Court Review

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the federal government from transferring an ancient Arizona Apache worship site to a copper mining company until the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the dispute, saying there is no question that the tribes would suffer irreparable harm should the move proceed.
May 12, 2025
Mass. Court Says NIH Grant Disruption Suit Is In The Right Place

A Massachusetts federal court ruled Monday that it has jurisdiction over several states' lawsuit challenging delays and cancellations of federal grant programs linked to issues they say are "disfavored" by the Trump administration, rejecting the federal government's contention that the claims instead belonged in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.
May 12, 2025
Tribal Co. Hit With Class Suit Over High Interest Rates

Bright Lending was hit Friday with a proposed racketeering class action in Florida, claiming the online payday lender charges illegal interest rates on short-term loans and hides behind a Native American tribe in Montana to escape legal claims.
May 12, 2025
Unions Tell Justices To Protect Privacy In Social Security Case

Two unions and an advocacy group argued Monday that there's no need for the U.S. Supreme Court to make it easier for the Department of Government Efficiency to access the Social Security Administration's data on millions of Americans, claiming requiring the supposed fraud-busting team to follow protocol doesn't constitute an emergency.
May 12, 2025
Calif. Tribe Can't Halt Decision On $700M Casino, Feds Say

The U.S. Department of the Interior has urged a D.C. federal court to reject a California tribe's bid to temporarily block the department's decision to rescind gambling eligibility for a $700 million casino project.
May 12, 2025
Will Justices Finally Rein In Universal Injunctions?

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to address for the first time Thursday the propriety of universal injunctions, a tool federal judges have increasingly used to broadly halt presidential orders and policy initiatives, and whose validity has haunted the high court's merits and emergency dockets for more than a decade.
May 12, 2025
Okla. Lawmaker Seeks Override Of Veto On Tribal Bill

A Democratic Oklahoma state representative is looking to win a legislative override of Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt's veto of a bill that would have provided state money to fund investigations of missing and murdered Indigenous people, the lawmaker's office said Monday.
May 09, 2025
Calif. Judge Blocks Trump's Gov't Reorganization, Job Cuts

A California federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked federal agencies and Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from carrying out President Donald Trump's directive to reduce the government workforce, saying the president doesn't have the constitutional or statutory authority "to reorganize the executive branch."
May 09, 2025
National Report Exposes Gaps In Missing Minority Cases

A growing number of minority groups, including Indigenous and Black people, have gone missing and remain unaccounted for around the United States, and systemic disparities contribute to the failure of law enforcement to track and resolve cases, a new report said.
May 09, 2025
Wells Fargo Execs Sued In Del. Over 'Sham' Diversity Efforts

A Wells Fargo stockholder launched a derivative suit on Friday in Delaware's Court of Chancery seeking damages from 17 of the banking giant's directors and officers for potentially billions in costs tied to alleged "sham" diversity-focused recruitment and hiring initiatives.
May 09, 2025
Bipartisan Bill Would Make Tech Giants Help Pay For Networks

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators are renewing their push to get big tech companies and broadband service providers to pay into the government fund that supports network deployment.
May 09, 2025
Advocates Upset As Trump Targets 'Woke' Digital Equity

Broadband deployment advocates protested a Trump administration move to zero out the Digital Equity Fund, a $2.75 billion program to improve digital literacy skills, in a cost-cutting move at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
May 09, 2025
Utah Tribe Challenges Colorado Parks' Bill Over Historical Ties

A Colorado bill that would give members of the Southern Ute Indian and Ute Mountain Ute tribes free access to the state's parks is being protested by their Utah sister tribe, which argues that the legislation disregards its deep historical connection and presence in its ancestral homelands.
May 09, 2025
EPA Broke Trust Duty In $16M Ovintiv Settlement, Court Told

A Utah tribe says negotiations between the U.S. government and Ovintiv USA Inc. over a $16 million Clean Air Act consent decree ignored federal protocol and harmed its sovereign interests, telling a federal court that its members will disproportionately suffer from the impacts of energy mineral production.

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Opinion

How Trump Admin Should Address Indian Country Priorities

The incoming Trump administration should consider four high-level policy recommendations if it wants to succeed at improving the quality of life for Native Americans throughout the U.S., says Mike Andrews at McGuireWoods.
What 2024 Trends In Marketing, Comms Hiring Mean For 2025

The state of hiring in legal industry marketing, business development and communications over the past 12 months was marked by a number of trends 鈥� from changes in the C-suite to lateral move challenges 鈥� providing clues for what鈥檚 to come in the year ahead, says Ben Curle at Ambition.
5 Notable Anti-Money Laundering Actions From 2024

Regulators' renewed interest in anti-money laundering programs in 2024 led to numerous enforcement actions and individual prosecutions in industries like banking, cryptocurrency and gaming, including the blockbuster TD Bank settlement and investigations of casinos in Nevada, says Michael Beckwith at Dickinson Wright.
Series

Group Running Makes Me A Better Lawyer

The combination of physical fitness and community connection derived from running with a group of business leaders has, among other things, helped me to stay grounded, improve my communication skills, and develop a deeper empathy for clients and colleagues, says Jessica Shpall Rosen聽at聽Greenwald Doherty.
Opinion

6 Changes I Would Make If I Ran A Law School

Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner identifies several key issues plaguing law schools and discusses potential solutions, such as opting out of the rankings game and mandating courses in basic writing skills.
Firms Still Have The Edge In Lateral Hiring, But Buyer Beware

Partner mobility data suggests that the third quarter of this year continued to be a buyer鈥檚 market, with the average candidate demanding less compensation for a larger book of business 鈥� but moving into the fourth quarter, firms should slow down their hiring process to minimize risks, say officers at Decipher Investigative Intelligence.
Think Like A Lawyer: 1 Type Of Case Complexity Stands Out

In contrast to some cases that appear complex due to voluminous evidence or esoteric subject matter, a different kind of complexity involves tangled legal and factual questions, each with a range of possible outcomes, which require a 鈥渟liding scale鈥� approach instead of syllogistic reasoning, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
How Litigation, Supply Chains Buffeted Offshore Wind In 2024

U.S. offshore wind developers continue to face a range of challenges 鈥� including litigation brought by local communities and interest groups, ongoing supply chain issues, and a lack of interconnection and transmission infrastructure 鈥� in addition to uncertainty surrounding federal energy policy under the second Trump administration, say attorneys at Liskow & Lewis.
Think Like A Lawyer: Note 3 Simple Types Of Legal Complexity

Cases can appear complex for several reasons 鈥� due to the number of issues, the volume of factual and evidentiary sources, and the sophistication of those sources 鈥� but the same basic technique can help lawyers tame their arguments into a simple and persuasive message, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.
Permitting, Offtake Among Offshore Wind Challenges In 2024

Although federal offshore wind development started to pick up this year, many challenges to the industry became apparent as well 鈥� including slow federal permitting, the pitfalls of restarting permits after changes in project status, and the difficulties of negotiating economically viable offtake agreements, say attorneys at Liskow & Lewis.
Series

Gardening Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Beyond its practical and therapeutic benefits, gardening has bolstered important attributes that also apply to my litigation practice, including persistence, patience, grit and authenticity, says Christopher Viceconte at Gibbons.
Litigation Inspiration: Reframing Document Review

For attorneys 鈥� new ones especially 鈥� there is much fulfillment to find in document review by reflecting on how important, interesting and pleasant it can be, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.
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Flying Makes Me A Better Lawyer

Achieving my childhood dream of flying airplanes made me a better lawyer 鈥� and a better person 鈥� because it taught me I can conquer difficult goals when I leave my comfort zone, focus on the demands of the moment and commit to honing my skills, says Ivy Cadle at Baker Donelson.
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Circus Arts Make Me A Better Lawyer

Performing circus arts has strengthened my ability to be more thoughtful, confident and grounded, all of which has enhanced my legal practice and allowed me to serve clients in a more meaningful way, says Bailey McGowan at Stinson.
3 Ways To Train Junior Lawyers In 30 Minutes Or Less

Today鈥檚 junior lawyers are experiencing a skills gap due to pandemic-era disruptions, but firms can help bring them up to speed by offering high-impact skill building content in bite-sized, interactive training sessions, say Stacey Schwartz at Katten, Diane Costigan at Winston & Strawn and Lauren Tierney at Freshfields.