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August 25, 2026
The Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians is accusing Riverside County and its officials of fraudulently inducing it into a $12 million land investment, telling a California district court that the municipality pulled a bait-and-switch when it then banned access to the airport-adjacent property.
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August 24, 2026
A Washington state judge considering Albertsons' mid-trial motion to dismiss allegations it fueled the state's opioid epidemic told lawyers for the state Monday that while they might have shown the pharmacy chain failed to implement an adequate monitoring system, she's still skeptical the company's conduct actually caused the overdose crisis.
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August 24, 2026
Environmental groups sued too early over a move last year by President Donald Trump to revive the prospect of Arctic oil and gas leasing in offshore areas that prior administrations deemed off-limits, an Alaska federal judge ruled Monday, saying the plaintiffs have not demonstrated a "substantial risk of imminent harm."
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August 24, 2026
Instagram's top data scientist told a Tennessee jury Monday that the company's goal is to increase the amount of "sessions" by teens, not their raw amount of time in the app, though he admitted the latter metric has been on the rise.
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August 24, 2026
During a break in a jury trial Monday over states' claims Meta hid social media's harm, states' counsel urged a California federal judge to require Meta to re-review all of its attorney-client privilege designations, arguing that "it seems actually logically impossible" that Meta described the wrong standard in only a single document.
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August 24, 2026
Nevada on Monday asked a federal judge to block a framework for Colorado River water cuts the Trump administration finalized, arguing that a flawed review and analysis threaten to put shortages on the backs of it and two other lower basin states.
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August 24, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice argued on Friday that the Trump administration should prevail over University of California researchers' challenges of the termination of their grants, telling a California federal judge that the First Amendment doesn't apply to competitively awarded grants.
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August 24, 2026
California has asked the Ninth Circuit to review a district court's rejection of its bid to block the Trump administration's reopening of a controversial coastal oil pipeline, which a judge said was a valid use of federal emergency authority under the Defense Production Act.
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August 24, 2026
Dozens of Native American tribes have asked an Ohio federal court to dismiss their lawsuits against members of the Sackler family, which owns bankrupt opioid maker Purdue Pharma, based on a settlement agreement that will pay $175 million to the tribes over 16 years.
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August 24, 2026
The U.S. Department of Agriculture urged a California federal court to toss a suit by federal workers and their labor union accusing the agency's secretary of sending "proselytizing" religious emails to employees, arguing the messages align with the "history and tradition" of public officials making references to religion.
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August 24, 2026
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security can't escape a lawsuit alleging it unlawfully nixed an applicant's job offer because her religious practice includes consuming the psychoactive tea ayahuasca, a Florida federal judge ruled Friday, rejecting the agency's assertion that the court can't review its hiring decisions on national security grounds.
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August 24, 2026
A Manhattan federal judge gave leave Monday for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to oppose a bid by a U.S. Army sergeant to sink criminal charges over his alleged Polymarket bets on the capture of deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
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August 24, 2026
Since taking a seat on the Federal Communications Commission more than a year ago, Olivia Trusty says her travels around some of the most rural parts of the country have convinced her of a need to bring the FCC's universal service programs up to date.
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August 24, 2026
A Ninth Circuit panel on Monday remanded a dispute over a 787-square-foot parcel in downtown Juneau after the U.S. Department of the Interior changed its position on the land-into-trust decision for an Alaskan tribal government.
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August 24, 2026
Prediction market giant Kalshi is fighting to keep New York's suit targeting its sports event contracts in federal court, punching back at the state's contention that those offerings should be subjected to state-level gambling regulations.
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August 24, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Interior has finalized a 10-year framework for Colorado River operations that will reduce water delivery to Arizona, California and Nevada by 1.25 million acre-feet for two years, as reservoirs dive to lows not seen since their 1963 construction due to ongoing drought conditions.
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August 21, 2026
Washington's attorney general and its gambling commissioners have agreed to hold off on enforcing the state's gambling laws against prediction market platform OG, run by the North American Derivatives Exchange, while the Ninth Circuit decides related appeals that could resolve the underlying legal dispute.
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August 21, 2026
The U.S. Small Business Administration's new rule redefining eligibility for the agency's contracting program for disadvantaged small businesses is prompting those with pending applications to consider scrapping them and starting over, and future applicants now face a new and largely untested evidentiary standard.
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August 21, 2026
Kalshi has urged a Washington state court to reconsider a recent order blocking the company from offering event contracts to the state's residents in most of its prediction market categories, raising equitable findings concerns and pointing to Washington's recent "blessing" of event contracts offered by one of Kalshi's competitors.
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August 21, 2026
Washington state is urging a Seattle judge to reject Albertsons' latest dismissal bid in a suit accusing the grocery giant of fueling the state's opioid epidemic, arguing the motion rehashes failed arguments and distorts evidence presented over the past five weeks in an ongoing bench trial.
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August 21, 2026
The Trump administration is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review a Ninth Circuit decision requiring the federal government to reinstate research grants that were terminated due to presidential orders against diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
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August 21, 2026
The D.C. Circuit on Friday vacated a district judge's block on the Trump administration's pause on a wide array of federal grants, loans and financial assistance, ruling that the Office of Management and Budget's rescission of the memorandum rendered the lawsuit moot.
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August 21, 2026
The U.S. Government Accountability Office has concluded that a resource management plan for the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, approved by the Biden administration just before President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, is a rule subject to congressional review.
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August 21, 2026
The United States is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reject a Nevada tribe's petition that looks to revive a $208 million breach of trust claim, saying the tribe hasn't identified a source of substantive law that the federal government violated by allegedly failing to prevent water diversion from its reservation.
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August 20, 2026
The Instagram executive responsible for the algorithm kicked off Meta's defense case Thursday over Tennessee's claims it concealed harm to youths' mental health, testifying the company's efforts to protect children also protect its bottom line.