KJZZ | It’s possible you’ve heard the phrase “Protect Oak Flat” in recent years, or maybe you’ve seen it in a mural, or scrawled in a piece of graffiti on a Phoenix wall. Well, the battle over Oak Flat is in its final stage, and its fate lies in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Rolling Stone | Apache Stronghold is fighting to stop a copper mine from blowing up a sacred mountain. The Supreme Court may be their last hope

ScotusBlog | The Petitions of the Week column highlights some of the cert petitions recently filed in the Supreme Court. A list of all petitions we’re watching is available here.

University of ND | Notre Dame Law School stands ready to advocate and defend religious freedom for all people.

Inside Climate News | The prayer journey will pass through other tribal communities threatened by resource extraction while trying to stop a mine that claims it could satisfy a quarter of the U.S. demand for copper.

AZ Central | Grassroots group Apache Stronghold took the next step in its fight to prevent a proposed copper mine from destroying Oak Flat, one of the Apache peoples' most sacred sites, asking the entire 29-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to review its lawsuit.

SLATE | “Religious freedom” is having a moment in federal courts. One of the big successful goals of the conservative legal movement was that religious freedom would be advanced in a way that it supposedly had not been before.

AP | PHOENIX (AP) — An Apache group that has fought to protect land it considers sacred from a copper mining project in central Arizona suffered a significant blow Friday when a divided federal court panel voted 6-5 to uphold a lower court’s denial of a preliminary injunction to halt the transfer of land for the project.

AZ Central | This year's run held special significance, as both mine opponents and backers await a pivotal decision from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Last March, the court heard arguments in Apache Stronghold's litigation to stop a proposed copper mine at Oak Flat, a project that would destroy one of the Apache peoples' most sacred sites.