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A D.C. federal judge has largely adopted a magistrate judge’s opinion favoring the Cherokee Nation in its suit seeking a full audit of tribal funds kept in a U.S. government trust, granting the tribe discovery on its claims that don’t arise under the Administrative Procedure Act.

Native American scholars say the rescission of two 1864 proclamations that encouraged non-Natives to kill Native Americans and caused the Sand Creek Massacre — one of the worst mass murders in U.S. history — should encourage more actions to heal systemic harm inflicted upon Native American communiti…

President Joe Biden nominated Charles F. Sams of Oregon, a Confederated Tribes of Umatilla citizen, to serve as director of the National Park Service within the U.S. Department of the Interior — he would be the first Native citizen to lead the agency if confirmed.

Casino operator Global Gaming Philippines urged a New York federal judge to keep its $297 million award enforcement suit against Spanish-Filipino billionaire Enrique K. Razon Jr., accusing him of trying to distract the court from his “monarchal” operation of two companies.

Dickey’s Barbecue Restaurants Inc. and a proposed class of consumers asked a Texas federal judge on Monday to grant initial approval of their $2.35 million settlement over a credit card data breach that affected around 3 million customers.

Christy Reuter, the former hotel and hospitality group chair at Meister Seelig & Fein, has joined Blank Rome LLP in New York City as a partner in the firm’s real estate group and chair for its hospitality group.

The Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians asked a California federal judge to lower the attorney fees it owes to banks it accused of helping former tribal leaders carry out a wide-reaching, multimillion-dollar embezzlement scheme, arguing some fees were “not reasonably expended.”

A multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed against Giorgio Armani by its former exclusive home furnishing dealer must be arbitrated, a Florida federal judge has ruled, rejecting arguments that the claims aren’t bound by an arbitration clause because they stem from an oral contract renewal agreement.

A Trump-era battle to limit the domestic use of popular Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat officially ended with the Ninth Circuit’s dismissal of a lawsuit that claimed the service presented national security threats.

Formed and headquartered in Boston, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo PC dominates a city where larger firms have failed to maintain offices. Its leaders aren’t sure why it’s so difficult to stay there, but they’re too focused on their own growth alongside the city to dig into reasons.

The Second Circuit on Wednesday granted Angolan energy company Aenergy an expedited appeal of a New York federal judge’s dismissal of its $1.1 billion contract forgery suit, after the lower court had urged Angola to find a more suitable venue to resolve the dispute.

Luxembourg’s data protection regulator has fined Amazon a record €746 million ($884.9 million) for allegedly violating the European Union’s stringent data protection rules through its collection and use of personal data.

A group of consumers is suing Dick’s Sporting Goods, Best Buy and other major retailers in a Pennsylvania federal court for contracting with a consumer reporting agency they claim invaded their privacy and violated state and federal laws.

The First Amendment Clinic at Duke Law and two law professors backed Clearview AI in an Illinois federal court suit, arguing that the First Amendment protects the facial recognition company’s practice of extracting biometric data from online images of people’s faces.

Gabriela Alvarez-Avila is joining DLA Piper as an international arbitration partner in Mexico City after spending more than a decade with Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle SC and nearly eight years with the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes.

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh disqualified Keller Lenkner LLC from representing a proposed class alleging Facebook violated antitrust laws by acquiring and blocking rival platforms after Facebook argued that the firm’s recent hire of an associate creates an “obvious conflict of interest.”

The Chickasaw Nation urged an Oklahoma federal court on Monday to rule that the tribe doesn’t have to arbitrate its claims against CVS Caremark and United Healthcare over prescription drug reimbursement, despite an Arizona judge’s recent decision to the contrary.

A D.C. federal judge ruled on Tuesday that confectionary giant Mars Inc. must arbitrate claims that a former executive violated state and federal trade secrets laws by downloading thousands of confidential and proprietary files before jumping to a rival food conglomerate.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a Ninth Circuit decision that two Arizona election regulations discriminate against Native American, Hispanic and African American voters in the state, potentially clearing the way for a raft of restrictive state voting laws even when they may reduce vot…

A former WilmerHale partner who focused on representing financial institutions in litigations has joined King & Spalding LLP as a partner in its trial and global disputes practice — and he cited the “collegial” culture as a large draw to the firm.