The Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation accuse Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Neuma Healthcare Development and others in a federal RICO complaint of having conspired to use Medicaid dollars to profit off the tribe’s health care clinic.
Read moreSix states, seven tribes and the United States want two zinc smelters and their top officers ordered to bear the costs of cleaning up dozens of old mining and smelting sites and the rivers they polluted.
Read moreAllottees on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation brought a federal complaint demanding $128 million from Tesoro High Plains Pipeline Co., for trespass, fraud and other claims.
Read moreA 163-year-old treaty was the focus of Supreme Court oral arguments on Tuesday as lawyers sparred over attempts to tax a fuel distributor owned by a member of the Yakama Nation.
Read moreOne of President Donald Trump’s nominees to the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday defended his record on legal issues related to Native American tribes, as the Senate Judiciary Committee held its second nominations hearing during the Senate’s recess ahead of the midterm elections.
Read moreThe Supreme Court late Tuesday kept North Dakota’s new voter ID requirements in place, as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg warned of a serious risk of disenfranchisement.
Read moreA Native American tribe faced an uphill battle Wednesday at the Seventh Circuit in its bid to block the expansion of a neighboring tribe’s casino.
Read moreA Canadian mining company must pay the $8 million it cost the Confederated Tribes of Colville to dig up evidence showing the company dumped toxic wastewater into the Canadian headwaters of the Columbia River, the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday.
Read moreLBW, a Mississippi LLC, claims in a federal complaint that Kate Bosworth dba Make Pictures Productions plans to release an unauthorized version of “Little Brother of War,” wholly funded by LBW, about the game of stickball among the Choctaw Indians.
Read moreA 1600s Native American fort uncovered as part of a rail bridge replacement project is shining some light on a tribe’s first dealings with Europeans, archeologists said on Tuesday during a tour of the site.
Read moreThe United States brought a federal complaint Monday against a Native American who it says has ignored a demand to clean up years of construction waste dumped into Long Island wetlands.
Read moreFederal prosecutors forfeiture actions Tuesday to recover $1 million from the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska, and $2 million from the Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma, related to their sham dealings with convicted payday-loan scammer Scott Tucker, a former champion racer.
Read moreThe state of Washington will head to the U.S. Supreme Court next term for the right to tax a fuel distributor owned by a Native American tribe.
Read moreNative Americans with an oil-rich reservation in North Dakota brought a federal complaint Wednesday to quash drilling permits that poses a threat to their drinking water.
Read moreSeveral Navajo groups brought a federal complaint against the Department of the Interior for ordering the Kayenta Coal Mine to close in December 2019, without ordering it to be returned to its pre-strip-mine condition.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit judge indicated Wednesday that he supported reviving a proposed class action accusing federal and Arizona state agencies of racial discrimination against American Indian children and their non-American Indian adoptive parents.
Read moreA federal class action accuses Ascension Technologies-owned Big Picture Loans LLC of falsely claiming that the payday lending operation is owned and operated by a Native American “rent-a-tribe,” and immune to state usury laws.
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One of the final water-rights settlements between the United States and Native American tribes was signed Tuesday, resolving a generation-long battle between the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana and the federal government.
Read moreAn unusual tie Monday at the Supreme Court has left intact an order expected to cost Washington billions of dollars after Native American tribes contested culvert work that blocked fish migration.
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