/nativeamerican?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Native American Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:15:29 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2422641?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2422641 The U.S. government and a group of red states on Tuesday asked a federal court to void Vermont's climate Superfund law, saying the statute exceeds the state's powers over air pollution. Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:30:07 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2422483?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2422483 A long line of U.S. Supreme Court rulings hold that states cannot tax tribal citizens on reservations without congressional authority, a tribal member told the justices, urging them to hear her appeal of an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision. Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:27:19 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2422241?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2422241 The Washington State Attorney General's Office has announced that its recently established task force unit to investigate cold case homicides involving Indigenous people has secured its first guilty plea in a previously unsolved criminal case. Tue, 16 Dec 2025 17:24:58 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2422277?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2422277 President Donald Trump has declared fentanyl a "weapon of mass destruction," according to an executive order that explicitly calls on the military to respond to "chemical incidents in the homeland." Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:45:01 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2421012?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2421012 To address the patchwork of courts’ standing orders on generative artificial intelligence, curbing abuses and relieving the burden on judges, the federal judiciary should consider amending its civil procedure rules to require litigants to certify they’ve reviewed legal filings for accuracy, say attorneys at Shook Hardy. Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:40:37 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2421682?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2421682 A Fifth Circuit panel won't block the restoration of a San Antonio park over two Native American church members' objections, saying there is no evidence to support their claims that the Texas city refused to try to accommodate their religious practices. Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:22:25 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2422506?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2422506 A subsidiary of ConocoPhillips has asked the Alaska federal court for permission to intervene in a lawsuit challenging its exploration of the National Petroleum Reserve, arguing its economic interests would be threatened if the project opponents succeed in getting its permits revoked. Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:59:50 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2422007?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2422007 Three California residents and a nonprofit cannot have an emergency order blocking a decision by the U.S. Interior Department to give federal recognition to California's Ione Band of Miwok Indians, a D.C. federal judge ruled, saying the plaintiffs didn't comply with federal rules governing such requests. Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:21:39 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2422120?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2422120 A California federal judge overseeing multidistrict litigation over claims that social media is addictive warned counsel for the plaintiffs Monday that she'd sanction them if their 17,000 pages of exhibits they plan to submit in response to defendants' summary judgment motions "[litter] the docket with irrelevant documents." Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:19:23 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2422272?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2422272 The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission was hit with a lawsuit on Monday over its approval of a natural gas project in Texas, with the Sierra Club, the South Texas Environmental Justice Network and the city of Port Isabel, Texas, alleging the agency used a flawed analysis to assess the polluting effect of the project. Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:06:37 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2421977?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2421977 The IRS finalized a pair of long-awaited tribal regulations Monday governing a taxable income exclusion for welfare benefits and classifying certain tribe-owned entities as tax-exempt to allow them to directly monetize tax credits for clean energy projects. Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:01:01 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2421889?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2421889 The nonprofit seeking to stop the U.S. Department of Energy from contracting out nuclear waste storage hit back at the contractor's bid to keep the case out of the U.S. Supreme Court, saying the contractor's own brief supports the nonprofit's position. Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:55:45 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2410757?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2410757 Enacting unified leadership and consistent client service standards ensures law firm practice groups connect and collaborate around shared goals, turning a law firm merger into a platform for growth rather than a period of disruption, says Brian Catlett at Fennemore Craig. Mon, 15 Dec 2025 14:45:28 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2420739?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2420739 Prediction markets are not merely testing the boundaries of commodities law — they are challenging the conventional divisions between gambling regulation and financial market oversight, and in doing so, may reshape both, says Braeden Anderson at Gesmer Updegrove. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:46:36 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2421184?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2421184 County and local officials in Provo City, Utah, have urged the Tenth Circuit to revive a state court prosecution against a church that uses psilocybin as a sacrament, saying a lower district judge erred by halting the legal action and finding it was conducted in bad faith. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:26:48 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2418279?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2418279 While proposals for limiting the terms of U.S. Supreme Court justices are popular, a steady stream of relatively young, highly marketable ex-justices with unique knowledge and influence entering the marketplace of law and politics could create new problems, say Michael Broyde at Emory University and Hayden Hall at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:21:26 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2421282?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2421282 If the U.S. Supreme Court chooses to hear Suncor Energy v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, Colorado, it will have the chance to resolve whether federal law precludes state law nuisance claims targeting interstate and global emissions — and the answer will have major implications for climate litigation nationwide, say attorneys at Liskow & Lewis. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:42:03 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2421567?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2421567 A group of betting and trading platforms said they've created a new organization to advance the interests of prediction markets as betting challenges from states intensify and Congress starts to formally structure the cryptocurrency market writ large. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:18:52 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2421418?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2421418 The Cayuga Nation suffered a partial loss Thursday when a New York federal jury essentially sided with a tribal citizen and his partner, who were operating an illicit smoke shop, finding that although the business owners did violate RICO, the damages they incurred due to a tribal police seizure were far worse. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:01:29 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2421388?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2421388 A Montana federal court judge vacated a U.S. Forest Service plan to log more than 16,500 acres in the Custer Gallatin National Forest, saying its failure to consider future impacts on grizzly bears and Canada lynx was arbitrary and capricious.