On June 23, 2021, the Ninth Circuit in Deschutes River All. v. Portland Gen. Elec. became the first court in the country to hold that Congress did not clearly and unambiguously waive tribal sovereign ...

In a precedential opinion, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently chose to follow the lead of the Eleventh Circuit, holding that tribes do not waive sovereign immunity merely by removing a case ...

Full 5th Circuit Won’t Hear Tribe’s Religious Freedom Suit Over Tree, Bird Removal at Sacred Site In an 11-6 vote, the court said it will not reconsider a Fifth Circuit panel's December decision ...

On September 19, 2019, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a crucial decision in favor of clinic clients Pit River Tribe and several environmental organizations in one of the Environmental ...

Headstones are seen at the cemetery of the U.S. Army's Carlisle Barracks, June 10, 2022, in Carlisle, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File) (CN) — A Fourth Circuit panel weighed whether the remains of two ...

The John Joseph Moakley U.S. Courthouse in Boston, home of the First Circuit Court of Appeals. (Photo by Beyond My Ken from Wikipedia Commons via Courthouse News) (CN) — More than 300 acres of ...

Full 5th Circuit Won’t Hear San Antonio Tribe’s Religious Freedom Suit In an 11-6 vote, the court said it will not reconsider a Fifth Circuit panel's December decision declining the Lipan-Apache ...

Law360 (August 1, 2025, 8:50 PM EDT) -- A California federal court won't order the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to remove the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians from a ...

A ruling by a panel of the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals means the Aroostook Band of Micmacs is subject to state employment discrimination laws after all. In a divided ruling, the three-judge panel ...

Law360 (April 18, 2007, 12:00 AM EDT) -- An American Indian tribe in Maine is not exempt from state employment discrimination laws, a divided circuit court ruled Tuesday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for ...