Imports, Tribal Lands

The US Uranium Dilemma: Domestic Production Challenges in an Era of Growing Nuclear Energy Demand

Womble Bond Dickinson on 3/21/2025

The US has a massive disparity between domestic uranium production and demand, highlighting a critical dependency on foreign sources, particularly as nuclear energy development is expected to increase. Recent federal public...more

Renewable Energy Update - 4.20.23 - #3

Allen Matkins on 4/24/2023

NEXT Energy Technologies Inc. has received $3 million in funding under the California Energy Commission’s Realizing Accelerated Manufacturing and Production for Clean Energy Technologies program, to be applied toward NEXT’s...more

Indian Tribe Taxes In The States

Alston & Bird on 7/1/2019

Executive Summary- A Supreme Court decision on state taxation of an Indian tribe turned on what a tax is “on.” Our Federal Tax Group parses the meaning of what is actually being taxed and the broader implications for...more

Washington State Department of Licensing v. Cougar Den, Inc.

Kilpatrick on 6/24/2019

In Washington State Department of Licensing v. Cougar Den, Inc., the United States Supreme Court delivered its first Indian law decision of this term and since Justice Kavanaugh joined the Court in a highly fractured ruling...more

SCOTUS Rules that Yakama Treaty Preempts Washington Tax

K&L Gates LLP on 3/25/2019

On March 19, 2019, the United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Washington State Department of Licensing v. Cougar Den, Inc., holding that the right to travel provision of the Yakama’s treaty with the United States...more

Supreme Court Decides Washington State Department of Licensing v. Cougar Den, Inc.

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 3/20/2019

On March 19, 2019, the Supreme Court decided Washington State Department of Licensing v. Cougar Den, Inc., No. 16-1498, holding that an 1855 treaty between the U.S. and the Yakama Nation exempts a tribal-owned company from...more