Andrew Westney

Oklahoma has abandoned a U.S. Supreme Court petition challenging an overturned criminal conviction stemming from the high court’s landmark McGirt decision, but the state’s attorney general said he would keep pursuing several current petitions and bring more intended to get rid of the ruling.

Michigan has urged a federal judge to tweak his recent ruling that the state can’t collect a use tax from the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and its members for property used within tribal territory, saying the state should be allowed to apportion the tax to collect it from tribal members.

A New Mexico federal judge has tossed a bid by environmental groups to block fracking near archeological and cultural sites in the Mancos Shale, saying that the Bureau of Land Management didn’t predetermine it would approve drilling permits and that its environmental review backed up its decisions.

The chairman of the House Committee on Natural Resources has reintroduced legislation that would cancel a land exchange for the Resolution Copper mine project in Arizona, amid litigation from tribal and environmental groups seeking to halt the project.

An Alabama federal judge has shipped to arbitration a woman’s proposed class action claiming an Oglala Sioux Tribe-owned company charged excessive interest for online loans, saying her own win against the company didn’t allow her to pursue her broader claims in federal court.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP’s Elliot Friedman is representing ConocoPhillips Co. in its multibillion-dollar arbitration against Venezuela over the country’s expropriation of oil projects, helping him to his place as one of 10 international arbitration lawyers under 40 honored by Law360.

A California tribe and a lending company it owns have urged a North Carolina federal court to toss a proposed class action claiming they charged interest rates for online loans that were too high under state law, saying they both have sovereign immunity to the suit.

The Fifth Circuit has remanded litigation over the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo’s electronic bingo operations following the tribe’s recent win at the U.S. Supreme Court against Texas, saying the lower court will have to resolve whether the bingo the tribe offers can be prohibited by the state.

A Montana electric utility has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Ninth Circuit decision that the Crow Tribe’s court could handle a suit against the company for disconnecting a tribe member’s electric service, arguing that the situation didn’t meet an exception to tribes’ general lack of civ…

The Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians can’t pursue tribal court claims against McKinsey & Co. for its alleged role in worsening the opioid crisis because the company’s actions weren’t closely tied enough to the Band’s lands to give the tribe jurisdiction over the dispute, a Wiscon…