https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: Native American Copyright 2025 Portfolio Media, Inc. en-US Thu, 01 May 2025 21:00:26 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2332989?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2332989 There's plenty of hand-wringing at the Federal Communications Commission as a U.S. Supreme Court decision draws near over the legality of the revenue-raising scheme used to pay for more than $9 billion in broadband and phone service subsidies. Thu, 01 May 2025 20:57:15 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2332943?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2332943 A Long Island, New York, school district is appealing a decision that denied its bid to block a ban on the use of Indigenous mascots and names in public schools, while the federal government investigates the state's education department and board of regents alleging Civil Rights Act violations. Thu, 01 May 2025 20:44:52 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2333006?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2333006 States that had asked the Eighth Circuit to revive vacated National Environmental Policy Act regulations are now abandoning their appeal because the White House has eliminated the standards — but they're still asking that a lower court's decision striking down the regulations be overturned. Thu, 01 May 2025 19:25:35 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2332580?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2332580 Publix Super Markets Inc. can't slip opioid-related claims from nine municipalities in which the supermarket chain alleges it has no pharmacies, an Ohio federal judge overseeing sprawling national opioid litigation ruled. Thu, 01 May 2025 18:56:57 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2332362?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2332362 Two Oklahoma district attorneys have urged a federal court to throw out Cherokee, Chickasaw and Choctaw nation lawsuits challenging the district attorneys' attempts to prosecute tribal citizens for crimes committed in Indian Country, arguing that their complaints wrongly seek to overturn a state criminal court opinion. Thu, 01 May 2025 17:22:05 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2333027?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2333027 The Fourth Circuit has voted to initially hear as a full court the government's challenge to an order blocking a probe of the Social Security Administration and keep the block in place, with a majority differentiating a similar case it recently left to a three-member panel sans injunction. Thu, 01 May 2025 17:08:23 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2333053?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2333053 A Ninth Circuit decision allowing a Guam group to challenge an Air Force permit renewal application to detonate expired munitions conflicts with precedent and threatens to burden permit applicants, agencies and courts, the U.S. government said in a rehearing petition filed Wednesday. Thu, 01 May 2025 10:21:44 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2305667?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2305667 Serving as an adjunct college professor has taught me the importance of building rapport, communicating effectively, and persuading individuals to critically analyze the difference between what they think and what they know — principles that have helped to improve my practice of law, says Sheria Clarke at Nelson Mullins. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:21:46 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2332377?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2332377 The U.S. Department of the Interior on Wednesday contested a bid for $1.5 million in fees from the Burt Lake Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians in a dispute over the process of being recognized as a federal tribe, telling a District of Columbia federal court that the amount requested was "staggering" and nearly five years too late. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 20:07:27 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2332396?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2332396 Members of the Round Valley Indian Tribes are suing two California county sheriff's departments and the California Highway Patrol, alleging they violated state and federal law by conducting gunpoint raids on cannabis cultivation sites on tribal land without their permission. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:21:40 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2332678?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2332678 Arizona misinterpreted federal law and threatened the sovereignty of a Native American tribe with its taxation of a natural-gas-powered plant that sits on a reservation, the tribe told the U.S. Supreme Court in a brief Wednesday. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:29:28 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2331742?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2331742 The Muscogee (Creek) Nation continues to fight attempts by Tulsa County, Oklahoma, its sheriff and a district attorney to assert criminal jurisdiction on the tribe's reservation, telling a federal court that the Tenth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court support its jurisdictional authority. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:12:31 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2332347?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2332347 The U.S. Army is fighting an appeal by a Nebraska tribe to undo an order denying the repatriation of two of its children buried at a Pennsylvania boarding school cemetery, telling the Fourth Circuit that the lawsuit fails to allege facts under a law designed to protect Indigenous burial sites. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:25:51 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2332321?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2332321 A key U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday advanced President Donald Trump's nominee for the third Republican seat on the Federal Communications Commission. Wed, 30 Apr 2025 12:49:18 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2329525?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2329525 Practitioners leaving a longtime government role for private practice — as when I departed the U.S. Department of Justice’s environmental enforcement division — should prioritize finding a firm that shares their principles, values their experience and will invest in their transition, says John Cruden at Beveridge & Diamond. Tue, 29 Apr 2025 20:10:15 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2331938?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2331938 A group of insurers again urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Ninth Circuit decision ordering them to litigate COVID-19 coverage claims in Suquamish Tribal Court, saying Tuesday that the lower court's conception of tribal sovereignty is so broad that even the tribe is unwilling to defend it. Tue, 29 Apr 2025 20:05:09 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2331699?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2331699 The Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria is fighting a bid by a fellow California tribe at the crux of a dispute over the Interior Department's decision to take 70 acres into trust for the construction of a proposed hotel and casino project, arguing it lacks any justification to do so. Tue, 29 Apr 2025 19:33:10 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2331913?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2331913 The Michigan attorney general on Tuesday told the U.S. Supreme Court that there's no need for it to review a Sixth Circuit decision remanding to state court a lawsuit seeking to shut down an Enbridge Energy LP crude oil and natural gas pipeline. Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:18:51 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2331830?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2331830 BNSF Railway Co. has urged the Ninth Circuit to derail the nearly $400 million a trial judge ruled it owes for years of illegally running oil cars across a Washington tribe's land, saying the disgorgement judgment goes after legitimate profits far removed from where the trespassing occurred. Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:06:08 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2331710?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2331710 President Donald Trump lacks the power to reorganize the executive branch and push for mass terminations of workers when Congress hasn't given its blessing, unions and other groups told a California federal court.