The U.S. Department of Justice has opened a new front in federal-state immigration litigation, filing suits against New York, Connecticut, and Vermont over laws that allow certain undocumented students to qualify for in-state tuition rates and, in some cases, state financial aid. The federal government’s core argument is that these state policies conflict with federal restrictions on postsecondary education benefits tied to immigration status.

At the center of the dispute is the interaction between federal immigration law and state authority over public higher education.

Kalshi has opened a new appellate front in the fast-developing fight over prediction-market regulation, asking the Second Circuit to review a New York federal court decision that refused to shield the company from state gaming-law enforcement. The appeal raises a central question for event-contract platforms: when a federally regulated derivatives product looks like wagering to state officials, which legal regime controls?

The underlying suit, KalshiEX LLC v. Williams et al, puts that issue squarely before the courts.

The Ninth Circuit has handed Alaska regulators a significant win in a dispute over access to oil-and-gas well information, ruling that federal law does not preempt an Alaska statute requiring disclosure of certain ConocoPhillips well data. The decision reverses a lower-court ruling that had allowed the records to remain confidential and marks an important appellate development at the intersection of energy regulation, public-records obligations, and preemption doctrine.

At a high level, the fight centered on whether federal statutes and regulations governing energy-related information displaced Alaska’s disclosure regime.