Turtle Talk

From SCOTUSBlog:

Title: Hogan v. Kaltag Tribal Council
Docket: 09-960
Issue: Whether the hundreds of Indian tribes throughout the State of Alaska have authority to initiate and adjudicate child custody proceedings involving a [member] and then to compel the State to give full faith and credit to the decrees entered in those proceedings.

• Opinion below (Unpublished, 9th Circuit)
• Petition for certiorari
• Brief in opposition
• Petitioners’ reply
• Amicus brief of Edward Parks and Donielle Taylor

Here’s the lower court opinion. I’ve got a bad feeling about this one, but I am heartened by this.