Supreme Court Miniseries: Tribal Rights in the 21st Century
DE Talk | Building Foundational Relationships in Native American & Tribal Communities
Proof in Trial: Appellate Edition: Stand Up for California et al. v. U.S. Department of the Interior et al.
Tribal Tax Exemption Under McGirt Gains Preliminary Victory
McGirt Uncertainty Extends to Federal Environmental Regulations in Indian Country
Not All Fun and Games: James T. Meggesto Shares How Native American Culture Becomes Caricature
Jessica Laughlin Dispels Common Misconceptions of What it Means to be Native American
Native American Affinity Group Chair John Haney Share the Role of Art in his Family's Culture
Podcast - Native American Law Updates with Ron Allen, Chairman/CEO of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe
Revisiting McGirt: New Legal Developments Challenge Oklahoma’s Landmark Ruling
The Immediate and Lasting Impacts of McGirt: A Novel Ruling for Oklahoma
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Infrastructure and Indigenous Engagement
Daily Compliance News: August 9, 2020, the Sunday Book Review, Old is New edition
Trekking Through Compliance-Episode 70-Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
Trekking Through Compliance-Episode 58 – The Paradise Syndrome
Daily Compliance News: July 20, 2020-the Talk is Cheap edition
A Way Forward: Energy Industry Ready to Fuel Canada's Recovery
On October 22, 2025, the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) announced the availability of a report entitled The Climate Technology Progress Report 2025: Advancing Biobased Technologies in the Bioeconomy, which finds...more
On October 23, more than 100 Republican members of Congress penned a bicameral letter to the Treasury secretary and the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), reaffirming support for the Community Development...more
Ten members of Congress representing New York districts have petitioned Gov. Kathy Hochul to withhold the state's water quality certification needed for a natural gas pipeline in New York waters. ...more
Key Takeaways What’s Happening: Echoing Beveridge & Diamond’s recommendations from its 2024 report to the Washington Department of Commerce to speed development of renewable energy and other technologies necessary to meet...more
The California Court of Appeal has ruled that preliminary work can begin on the Delta Conveyance Project, a controversial proposal to build a 14-mile underground tunnel to transport water from Northern California southward....more
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) recently announced the closure of its Benin Kingdom Gallery and the return of two bronzes from its collection to the emperor of Benin, the Oba, in Nigeria. This decision underscores the...more
Le gouvernement de la Colombie-Britannique propose d’apporter d’importantes modifications à la Heritage Conservation Act afin de l’harmoniser avec la Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (la « DRIPA ») de la...more
On October 9, 2025, the Washington Supreme Court held that tribal sovereign immunity cannot be abrogated through in rem jurisdiction over tribally owned non-reservation lands to vest the court with subject matter jurisdiction...more
The British Columbia government is proposing major changes to the Heritage Conservation Act to align it with B.C.’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA). The Heritage Conservation Act protects heritage...more
In Pabai v Commonwealth (No 2) [2025] FCA 796, Justice Wigney in the Federal Court of Australia dismissed a claim from two Torres Strait Islanders, who had alleged that the Commonwealth of Australia has a duty of care to...more
La Secretaría de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales de México, el 2 de octubre de 2025, publicó en la página de la Comisión Nacional de Mejora Regulatoria (CONAMER) la iniciativa con proyecto de decreto por el que se expide...more
In the vast majority of U.S. States, the federal government may hold designated reservation lands in trust for tribes. However, Alaska presents a challenge to legal interpretation of gaming rights and jurisdiction....more
On September 18, 2025, the Canada–Nova Scotia Offshore Energy Regulator (Regulator) received strategic direction from the Government of Canada and the Government of Nova Scotia (the Strategic Direction) to initiate Canada’s...more
Se publicó en el Diario Oficial de la Federación el 3 de octubre de 2025, el Reglamento de la Ley del Sector Eléctrico, cuyo objetivo es desarrollar las disposiciones de la Ley del Sector Eléctrico (LSE) de México. ...more
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (“Ninth Circuit”) addressed in a September 3rd Opinion an issue associated with the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”) term “natural resources.”...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) issued a September 12th Order addressing a Petition for Review of two Underground Injection Control Permit decisions EPA Region 8...more
Following the passing of the Building Canada Act in June of 2025, the Federal Government recently launched the new Major Projects Office (“MPO”) and announced the first tranche of nation-building projects that will benefit...more
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held that federal Superfund law authorizes claims by natural resource trustees for interim lost uses of natural resources that have a cultural component. The case, Confederated...more
This is the latest on the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) Long Lead-Time Request for Proposals (LLT RFP). The LLT RFP aims to address growing demand in Ontario’s electricity sector by securing energy and...more
This week, Brownstein participated in a panel at the Wyoming State Bar Annual Conference, held Sept. 17‒19, 2025 in Laramie, Wyoming, to discuss the current state of gaming regulations in Wyoming. Shareholder Affie Ellis...more
On June 6, 2025, the federal government introduced Bill C-5, An Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada Act and the Building Canada Act, which proposes new legislation aimed at strengthening Canada's economy...more
Canada is navigating a "wild frontier" in the energy industry, with a unique opportunity to forge successful and sustainable partnerships both domestically and internationally. This was the rallying call at the Energy...more
California courts have certainly been busy as of late. In particular, challenges abound as to the Department of the Interior (the DOI) and its decisions to take certain parcels of land into trust for the purpose of rendering...more
On Sept. 3, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit held that the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) authorizes recovery of natural resource damages for the lost use of...more
On August 20, 2025, in United States v. Alaska No. 24‑2251, the Ninth Circuit affirmed the federal government’s authority to create a rural subsistence fishing priority in navigable waters on federal lands under Title VIII of...more