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When Is A Cumulative Impact Analysis Constitutionally Required? Alaska Supreme Court Offers Clarification

On November 14, 2025, the Alaska Supreme Court issued its opinion in Orutsararmiut Native Council v. Boyle. The focus of this dispute centered on several permits that the Alaska Department of Natural Resources ("DNR")...

United States Government

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Davis Wright Tremaine

Native American Heritage Month From Sacred To Statutory — How Federal Law Shapes The Protection Of Indigenous Sacred Sites And Artifacts

The relationship between U.S. law and Indigenous sacred heritage has long been complex — and often fraught. The American legal system is rooted in private property and individual rights...

United States Government

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Cowan Liebowitz & Latman PC

BOEM Rapidly Advances Steps To Develop Critical Minerals In American Samoa And Commonwealth Of Mariana Islands

Last week, the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced progress on its long-term plan to lease areas for critical mineral development on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).

United States Energy

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Perkins Coie LLP

Evaluating Tribal Claims Against Trump's Anti-DEI And Immigrant-Enforcement Grant Conditions

As part of this second Trump administration's aggressive efforts to weave right-wing cultural and partisan political issues into every facet of federal governance, agency heads have announced new funding terms and conditions...

United States Government

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Galanda Broadman

Defending Against ICE Attacks On Tribal Lands

United States Government

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Galanda Broadman

As The Global Energy Transition Advances, Business Centered On Rights Remains Good Business

United States Government

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Foley Hoag LLP

United States Trademarks: Foreign Equivalents And Indigenous Languages

United States IP

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Harris Sliwoski

Washington State Supreme Court Holds Historic Indigenous Human Rights Symposium

United States Government

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Galanda Broadman

Revising Missile Controls Is Necessary To Help Allies And Prevent New Nuclear States

United States Government

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Lowenstein Sandler

Conducting Psychedelic Retreats Abroad: Protecting Yourself And Participants

Worldwide International

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Harris Sliwoski

Gabe Galanda Dispels "Federal Indian Blood Quantum Fiction" In New Book

United States Government

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Galanda Broadman

UN Lifts Embargo On Unanswered Interventions To Biden State Department, Nooksack Tribe

United States Government

GB

Galanda Broadman

NCAI Formed A Tribal Citizenship Protection Task Force To Prepare For This Moment. But Then Killed It

United States Government

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Galanda Broadman

Indigenous Populism Confronts Federal Indian Elitism

United States Government

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Galanda Broadman

FBI's Most Recent Gambling Arrests Suggest Sports-Betting Regulations Are Effective

United States Media & IT

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Duane Morris LLP

The Empty Chair At Johannesburg: What It Says About US Power

United States International

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Steptoe LLP

Visa Turbulence: Navigating Your H-1B Future In A Shifting U.S. Landscape (Video)

United States Immigration

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Green and Spiegel

The U.S. Economy: Modest Activity And Intensifying Uncertainty (Ankura Monthly Economic Report November 2025)

United States Strategy

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Ankura Consulting Group LLC

Back To School 2025: Title IX Updates And How ADR Can Help Universities Resolve Disputes (Podcast)

United States Litigation

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JAMS

Believe It: Indigenous Americans Shifted Rightward, Voted Trump

On November 5th, typically Democratic-voting Indigenous people joined those who rejected the liberal worldview of Washington, DC elites.

United States Government

GB

Galanda Broadman

United Nations Further Intervenes At Nooksack, Interior Secretary Faces Human Rights Criticism

The United Nations has once again intervened in the Nooksack human rights calamity, in unprecedented fashion.

United States Government

GB

Galanda Broadman

Celebrating Native American Heritage Month: The Intersection Of Intellectual Property And Indigenous Rights

November is Native American Heritage Month, a time to highlight the rich cultures, histories, and contributions of Native American peoples. Indigenous communities have long utilized traditional knowledge...

United States Government

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Cowan Liebowitz & Latman PC

Leaders In Law: Tommy Beaudreau On Natural Resources And Tribal Lands (Podcast)

When it comes to protecting the nation's public lands, the work of the Department of the Interior (DOI) is crucial and all-encompassing. The Department oversees everything from environmental...

United States Energy

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WilmerHale

Blazing A Trail: Native American Women In The Law

United States Commercial

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Lincoln Derr PLLC

Cadwalader Climate

United States Environment

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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Preparing For CS3D: Early Lessons From France

United States Commercial

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Crowell & Moring LLP

WIPO Member States Approve New Treaty On Genetic Resources And Traditional Knowledge

United States Government

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Osha Bergman Watanabe & Burton LLP

NAGPRA – 2024 Revamped Rule Strengthens Process For Museums And Universities To Heal Prior Inequities And Rebuild Tribal Relationships

United States Government

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Taft Stettinius & Hollister

The Xochitl Phenomenon

United States Government

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Cacheaux, Cavazos & Newton

Taskforce On Nature-Related Disclosures Publishes Final Recommendations

United States Environment

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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

To Transition To Renewables, Enviros May Have To Become Imperialists

United States Energy

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Flaster Greenberg PC

Senate Committee Questions Insurers On Climate

United States Insurance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

U.S. Executive Branch Update – May 8, 2023

United States Government

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Squire Patton Boggs LLP

Taskforce On Nature-Related Disclosures Publishes Final Recommendations

On September 18, 2023, following a two-year development process, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) published its final recommendations (the Recommendations)...

United States Environment

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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

To Transition To Renewables, Enviros May Have To Become Imperialists

One of the inconvenient truths about modern renewable energy, especially from non-consumptive sources like solar and wind, is that they need lots of rare earth metals...

United States Energy

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Flaster Greenberg PC

Senate Committee Questions Insurers On Climate

Property-casualty insurers should take note of letters sent by the U.S. Senate Budget Committee on June 9 to prominent insurers seeking information on climate-related matters.

United States Insurance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

U.S. Executive Branch Update – May 8, 2023

This report provides a snapshot of the U.S. Executive Branch priorities via daily schedules and the prior day's press releases.

United States Government

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Squire Patton Boggs LLP

FDIC Pass-Through Coverage

United States Insurance

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Goodwin Procter LLP

ESG Weekly Update – August 12, 2022

On July 25, 2022, the EU adopted the long awaited set of regulatory technical standards (RTS) in a Delegated Regulation supplementing the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).

Worldwide Environment

DP

Debevoise & Plimpton

California Energy Commission Releases Milestone Offshore Wind Energy Report And Sets Maximum Feasible Capacity And Megawatt Planning Goals For 2030 And 2045

Offshore wind development off the California coast took another step closer to reality on August 10, 2022 with the California Energy Commission's release of a report setting maximum feasible capacity and megawatt goals for 2030 and 2045.

United States Energy

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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton

ESG Weekly Update – August 3, 2022

On July 25, 2022, the EU adopted the long awaited set of regulatory technical standards (RTS) in a Delegated Regulation supplementing the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).

Worldwide Environment

DP

Debevoise & Plimpton

ESG Weekly Update – June 1, 2022

Last week, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed additional disclosure requirements for ESG-focused funds in order to "promote consistent, comparable, and reliable information...

United States Commercial

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Debevoise & Plimpton

USDA's Equity Action Plan Commits To Expanding Tribal Self-Determination Policies

United States Government

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Holland & Knight

Native Farm Bill Coalition Relaunches Advocacy For Indian Country's 2023 Farm Bill Priorities

United States Government

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Holland & Knight

PASH: No One Legacy For Hawai‘i Land Use And Shoreline Public Access

United States Environment

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Cades Schutte LLP

Happy Indigenous Heritage Month 2021

United States Government

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Pryor Cashman LLP

Missing White Girl Syndrome' Continues To Plague Us

United States Government

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Shipman & Goodwin LLP

Permanent Improvements On Tribal Lands Categorically Preempted From State Property Tax

United States Tax

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Lewis Roca

Eligible Households On Tribal Lands Can Enroll In FCC Emergency Broadband Benefit Program

United States Media & IT

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Holland & Knight

Tribal Governments: Notice Of Intent To Use Pandemic Emergency Assistance Fund Money Due By June 9

United States Coronavirus

HK

Holland & Knight

Updated Equator Principles Include Additional ESG Due Diligence Requirements

United States Environment

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Winston & Strawn LLP

Cabinet Appointee: Department Of The Interior

United States Government

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Ballard Spahr LLP

Diversity Speaker Series

Worldwide Government

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

La Reforma A La Constitución Establece El Derecho A La Salud Y Los Programas Sociales En México

United States Employment

HK

Holland & Knight

Expect Scrutiny From BSA/AML Regulators On Reporting Ponzi Schemes, Other External Frauds

United States Government

HK

Holland & Knight

Treasury Tribal Advisory Committee Meeting Set For June 20, 2019

United States Government

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Cultural And Intellectual Property Appropriation: Disputes Over Culturally-Inspired Fashions

United States IP

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Foley Hoag LLP

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