Here:
Federal Court Rejects Warm Springs Tribal Member’s Effort to Invoke McGirt to Challenge Federal Criminal Jurisdiction under the ICCA and ACA
Here are the materials in United States v. Smith (D. Or.):
Prior decisions involving the same defendant are here (Ninth Circuit) and here (Oregon appellate court).
Interior Takes National Bison Range Into Trust for CSKT
Here:
Max J. Madrid Law Diversity Scholarship
Modrall Sperling awards this scholarship annually, providing tuition assistance toward an awardee’s first or second year of law school in the amount of $10,000. Details are provided in the link below. Here.
Three Tribes Withdraw Laches as a Defense in US v. Washington Subproceeding 17-03
Here are the notices of withdrawal of laches as a defense in United States v. Washington subproceeding 17-03 (W.D. Wash.):
Sub 17-03 Swinomish Indian Tribal Community Notice of Withdrawal of Laches Defense 011921
Sub 17-03 The Tulalip Tribes Withdrawal of Laches Defense 011921
Sub 17-03 Upper Skagit Indian Tribe Withdrawal of Laches Defense 011921
As I wrote in 2015, I see this as a good thing — the possibility that the laches defense could be used against tribal treaty rights has hung like a smoggy haze over Indian country ever since 2005. It staggers me to think that tribes would do this to themselves for short-term, and probably illusory, gain.
San Carlos Apache Tribe Sues US Forest Service to Protect Oak Flat
Here is the complaint in San Carlos Apache Tribe v. USFS (D. Ariz.):
Press release here.
Wednesday (1/20) — Lunch in Indian Country CLE: McGirt and Its Impact on Tribal Rights [Tribal In-House Counsel Assn.]
Federal Claims Court Dismiss Claims of Irrigators in Wapato Irrigation Project [near Yakama Nation]
Here are the materials in Olson v. United States (Fed. Cl.):
Cherokee Nation Prevails Against Insurance Company over Pandemic-Forced Business Shutdown
Here are the materials in Cherokee Nation v. Lexington Ins. Co. (Cherokee County Dist. Ct.):
2020-08-11 Cherokee first MPSJ
2020-09-14 Arch Opposition Brief – OK MPSJ
2020-09-14 Evanston Supp Resp to MPSJ
2020-09-14 HALLMARK CHEROKEE – Hallmark Resp to MPSJ
2020-09-14 INSURERS Opp Cherokee’s MPSJ
2020-09-14 Landmark – Cherokee – Supp Opposition Brief – OK MSJ
2020-09-14 XL’s Opposition to Cherokee’s MPSJ [20-0914]
2020-11-20 Notice of Supp Authortiy (Western District)
2020-12-11 – Cherokee Reply to Arch- MSJ
2020-12-11 – Cherokee Reply to Aspen – MPSJ
2020-12-11 – Cherokee Reply to Evanston – MPSJ
2020-12-11 – Cherokee Reply to Hallmark – MPSJ
2020-12-11 – Cherokee Reply to Landmark – MPSJ
2020-12-11 – Cherokee Reply to Liberty Mutual – MPSJ
2020-12-11 – Cherokee Reply to XL Insurance America – MPSJ
2020-12-11 Cherokee Reply to Insurers MPSJ
2020-12-17 Cherokee – Liberty Mutual, Landmark, Arch Motion for Leave to file SurRely
2020-12-17 Insurers’ Ntc of Supplemental Authority
2021-01-06 Arch Sur-Reply to MPSJ
2021-01-06 Landmark Sur-Reply to MPSJ
