/nativeamerican?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Native American Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Mon, 29 Sep 2025 23:17:02 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2392948?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2392948 The U.S. Supreme Court held its first conference Monday, presenting the justices with several petitions of interest to patent practitioners before the court's new term kicks off next week. Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:14:53 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2393082?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2393082 The Miccosukee Tribe in Florida has dropped its lawsuit alleging drugmakers and pharmacy benefit managers Eli Lilly, Express Scripts, CVS Health and other companies illegally conspired to limit competition and artificially inflate the price of insulin drugs, according to a notice of voluntary dismissal. Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:44:09 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2392840?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2392840 A Native American tribe has asked a Utah federal court for sanctions up to default judgment against a group of farm companies in a water use lawsuit, saying their failure to comply with any order and participate in the litigation willfully ignores the suit's seriousness. Mon, 29 Sep 2025 18:33:37 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2393478?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2393478 California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed into law three bills that will strengthen Indigenous students' rights to wear regalia, require tribal consultation over land and reburial rights, and streamline gaming tribes' ability to provide grants to other tribes with limited resources. Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:51:18 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2393462?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2393462 Members of the Blackfeet Nation tribe told the U.S. Supreme Court Monday their inclusion in the justices' review of suits challenging the legality of President Donald Trump's emergency tariffs is crucial to protect Native American rights under federal law. Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:43:46 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2389897?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2389897 Recent decisions from the Armed Services Board of Contract Appeals and the Civilian Board of Contract Appeals offer critical insights into contractor reliance on government specifications, how instructions can affect a contractor’s dispute rights and how both factor into the larger claims process, says Sarah Barney at Seyfarth. Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:09:50 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2393457?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2393457 Two researchers are asking an Arizona federal court to order the FBI to release records related to the 1986 death of an Indigenous U.S. Customs Service agent, alleging the agency withheld information that will shed light on the circumstances surrounding the unsolved case. Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:43:22 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2393508?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2393508 The Trump administration on Monday announced a suite of actions to help boost the U.S. coal industry, including opening up more federal lands to coal leasing and providing compliance relief and federal funding for coal-fired power plants. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 21:03:37 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2393007?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2393007 California's recent passage of a law further expanding its electricity markets beyond its borders could catalyze clean energy project development in the Golden State, as well as other states throughout the West. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:49:51 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2392881?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2392881 The federal government and three U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents are asking an Arizona federal court to pause a lawsuit alleging the agents wrongfully shot and killed a Tohono O'odham Nation man until the Ninth Circuit weighs in on whether they are immune from the claims. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 18:51:56 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2392335?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2392335 A New York federal judge chided attorneys for the Cayuga Nation and the smoke shop it's suing on Thursday for not actually speaking to each other when resolving a combative documents dispute, warning them that she might sanction them if they don't follow her orders more closely next time. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:58:36 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2393126?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2393126 A Massachusetts federal judge on Friday said Trump administration officials may be "wordsmithing," as she asked a government lawyer to explain why some migrants trying to adjust their status from humanitarian parole to legal residency are still being told their applications are on hold despite a court order to resume processing them. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:56:53 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2392974?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2392974 Trading platforms Kalshi and Robinhood urged a California federal judge to reject an injunction bid lodged by Native American tribes in California that would prevent the companies from offering sports betting contracts on tribal lands, arguing their federally authorized event contract businesses would suffer "substantial and irreparable harm." Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:39:58 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2392695?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2392695 A Washington, D.C., federal judge denied conservation groups' and local governments' effort to stop the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from ending a $3 billion climate grant program while they appeal the dismissal of their lawsuit. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 16:57:53 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2393083?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2393083 Twenty soldiers who participated in the 1890 Wounded Knee conflict that left nearly 300 Lakota people dead will keep their Medals of Honor, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced, saying the previous administration withheld a decision on whether to rescind the honors since last October. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 14:24:41 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2392689?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2392689 Two Cherokee Nation entities are looking to the Eighth Circuit to overturn an Arkansas federal court decision that dismissed their challenge to a voter-approved referendum that revoked a gambling license in the state. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:35:59 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2393026?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2393026 Massachusetts' intermediate appellate court on Friday found that the commonwealth may not apply the same forfeiture laws used for seized drugs to 1,600 wild oysters, though it nonetheless upheld the taking of the allegedly ill-gotten mollusks. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:17:14 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2392626?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2392626 A former assistant section chief in the U.S. Department of Justice's Environmental and Natural Resources Division has joined Greenberg Traurig LLP's Washington, D.C., office after five years with Perkins Coie LLP. Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:26:54 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2388086?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2388086 Empowering paralegals through new models of education that emphasize digital fluency, interdisciplinary collaboration and human-centered lawyering could help solve workforce challenges and the justice gap — if firms, educators and policymakers get on board, say Kristine Custodio Suero and Kelli Radnothy. Thu, 25 Sep 2025 22:20:26 +0000 /nativeamerican/articles/2391841?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /nativeamerican/articles/2391841 CashCall is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Ninth Circuit order that left the loan company on the hook for $134 million in restitution to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, despite the firm's insistence that conflicting precedent deprived it of its right to a jury trial.