No surprise here. Here they are, from the SCOTUSblog site:
Title: United States v. State of New York
Docket: 10-1404
Issue(s): Whether the United States may be barred from enforcing the Nonintercourse Act against a state that repeatedly purchased and resold (at a substantial profit) Indian lands in violation of the Act between 1795 and 1846, based on the passage of time and the transfer of the unlawfully obtained Indian lands into the hands of third parties, when the United States seeks monetary relief only against the state.Certiorari stage documents:
- Opinion below (2d Cir.)
- Petition for certiorari
- Brief in opposition
- Amicus brief of National Congress of American Indians
- Amicus brief of Law Professors
- Petitioner’s reply
Title: Oneida Nation of New York v. County of Oneida, New York
Docket: 10-1420
Issue(s): (1) Whether the court of appeals contravened this Court’s decisions in Oneida Indian Nation of New York v. County of Oneida and City of Sherrill v. Oneida Indian Nation by ruling that “equitable considerations” rendered petitioners’ claims for money damages for the dispossession of their tribal lands in violation of federal law void ab initio; and (2) whether the court of appeals impermissibly encroached on the legislative power of Congress by relying on “equitable considerations” to bar petitioners’ claims as untimely, even though they were brought within the statute of limitations fixed by Congress for the precise tribal land claims at issue.Certiorari stage documents:
Even though there is a collective Tribal opinion that this is an anti-American Indian court, I am still a die hard optimist. I am still of the naive belief, that the law prevails most of the time in fairness to all, as I learned in school, otherwise, why would it be posted and engraved in concrete, on most government Court buildings “Equal Justice Under the Law”, and why would Treaty Law revert to a statute of limitations, only when it applies to the American Indian…… Treaty Law has always been described as “The Law of the Land”. I don’t get that tribes waited to long to file a claim, wrong is wrong, injustice is wrong , no matter how long ……… it has to be adjudicated.