Here, via How Appealing:
FARMINGTON — The latest chapter in the legal saga of the Shiprock Home for Women and Children will take place in front of an Ivy League audience.
Oral arguments in the appeal of a Shiprock judge’s February decision supporting an injunction against the home will be heard at Yale Law School.
The Navajo Supreme Court will travel in November to New Haven, Conn., where the case will play out in front of an audience of law school students.
The ruling likely will come after the parties return home, said Jim Zion, an Albuquerque-based defense attorney who is handling the defendants’ case pro bono.
“The actual decision will be made in Window Rock,” Zion said. “I suspect the arguments will be very interesting at Yale. I’m looking forward to it.”
The cross-country trip is not unusual for law schools, Zion said. Schools occasionally invite various courts from around the country to visit campus, where students host the legal proceedings.
“Usually it’s Indian law students who ask the administration to ask the Navajo court to come,” Zion said. “The institution pays for us to go, and we do.”
This is Yale’s first time to host the Navajo Supreme Court, Yale spokeswoman Kathy Colello said.
“The visit is the result of student interest, particularly a request by our Native American Law Students Association,” she said.
Yale approached the Navajo high court and offered to cover travel and lodging for counsel to move the arguments to the prestigious law school.
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