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 Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:25:04 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2407431?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2407431 Industry and environmental groups alike are pushing back against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's proposal to repeal a program that requires power plants, fossil fuel and natural gas suppliers, and other facilities to report their greenhouse gas emissions. Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:07:04 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2407278?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2407278 A coalition of Democratic state and federal California lawmakers is calling on U.S. Education Secretary Linda McMahon to allocate money to support minority-serving colleges and universities, saying the federal government's decision to withhold $350 million in discretionary funding undermines the ability to serve underrepresented communities. Tue, 04 Nov 2025 17:24:36 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2405475?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2405475 In addition to the well-known problem of AI-generated hallucinations in legal documents, AI tools can also hallucinate metadata — threatening the integrity of discovery, the reliability of evidence and the ability to definitively identify the provenance of electronic documents, say attorneys at Law & Forensics. Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:56:49 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406719?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406719 Three Oklahoma tribes are asking a D.C. federal court for a summary judgment win in a dispute over Class II gaming compacts with the state, arguing that the governor lacked authority to enter into the agreements with two other tribes. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:31:42 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406760?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406760 Several community college teachers' unions backed the University of California system's challenge to millions of dollars in cuts to federal funding for higher education projects and programs, saying President Donald Trump's fight with the UC system is trickling down to its community colleges. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:57:29 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406723?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406723 When the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments Wednesday over whether President Donald Trump can impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, it will likely test two doctrines the justices have recently considered: the major questions and nondelegation doctrines. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:04:28 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406751?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406751 The Oklahoma Supreme Court incorrectly ruled that a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation owes Oklahoma income tax, groups representing Native American tribes told the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to hear the case and reverse the ruling. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:53:47 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406505?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406505 Washington will receive $66 million from Philip Morris under a new settlement resolving long-running disputes over annual payments owed by the major tobacco company under a landmark multistate deal with tobacco producers in 1998 over public health costs, according to the Washington State Attorney General's Office. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:05:40 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406309?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406309 An Apache tribe and conservation groups are fighting a Ninth Circuit bid to dismiss their efforts to block a 2,500-acre land exchange within Tonto National Forest, saying the federal government and mining company's arguments inaccurately center on a sentence in the 2014 Southeast Arizona Land Exchange and Conservation Act. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:58:40 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406720?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406720 A panel of D.C. Circuit judges expressed skepticism that a group of California Valley Miwok Tribe members can exclude a wide swath of the organization when drafting a tribal constitution, pressing an attorney for the members on seeming contradictions in their view of the government's role in the process. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:30:13 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406834?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406834 Two lawsuits filed Monday, one by a coalition of states and the other by a group of cities, unions and advocacy organizations, are challenging a new Trump administration rule imposing "intentionally vague" and allegedly illegal restrictions on student loan forgiveness for public employees intended to stifle dissent. Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:18:08 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2405445?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2405445 Though the Model Rules of Professional Conduct make clear that a violation of the rules does not automatically create a cause of action, attorneys should beware of a few scenarios in which they could face lawsuits for ethical lapses, says Brian Faughnan at Faughnan Law. Fri, 31 Oct 2025 23:25:37 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406457?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406457 Alaska joined Utah this month in terminating its contract with Motley Rice LLC, which the state hired nearly a decade ago to pursue litigation over the opioid crisis, saying the law firm didn't disclose it was simultaneously representing other clients in separate opioid litigation. Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:47:07 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406256?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406256 A higher education association seeks more than $330,000 in attorney fees and costs from the government after winning a ruling blocking the Trump administration from cutting certain National Science Foundation funding, according to a memorandum filed in Massachusetts federal court. Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:46:58 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406187?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406187 Minnesota has signed its fifth compact with a federally recognized tribe, allowing each one to issue licenses for eight cannabis retailers outside their respective reservations, as well as licenses to grow and manufacture the plant, with the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe the latest to reach deals. Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:25:21 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2405937?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2405937 A Rhode Island federal judge Friday ordered the Trump administration to use contingency funds to sustain Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits amid the ongoing government shutdown, while a Boston federal judge gave the government until Monday to choose one of two paths to keep the program running to some degree. Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:23:21 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406296?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2406296 A group of environmental advocacy organizations has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and its director, alleging the agency didn't do enough to conserve an endangered butterfly species and left them vulnerable to extinction. Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:22:52 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2405834?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2405834 A federal judge says the U.S. Department of the Interior's decision to temporarily nix gaming eligibility for a proposed $700 million casino project violated a California tribe's due process rights, but both sides are claiming victory as claims of violations of the Administrative Procedure Act and Fifth Amendment against the federal agency were also dismissed. Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:03:35 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2405684?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2405684 A Florida tribe has brought a civil action in South Carolina federal court against several makers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, alleging their land is contaminated by products containing the so-called forever chemicals.  Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:17:11 +0000 https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2405657?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section https://www.law360.com/nativeamerican/articles/2405657 Retailers sued by the Cayuga Nation over unpaid taxes from allegedly operating an unsanctioned smoke shop on tribal land must still fork over daily sales records even after New York State Police seized all cannabis product, a federal judge ruled Thursday, following yet another heated exchange in which the entrepreneurs blamed the tribe's leader for the raid.