Government’s Motion to Transfer Venue in Nat’l Council for Adoption v. Jewell (ICWA Guidelines Litigation) Denied

Kate Fort

The Feds wanted to move the case to Arizona (the location of Goldwater v. Washburn, the class action case).

Order here.

Pleadings:

MotiontoTransfer_MemoinSupport

MotioninOppositiontoXfer

ReplyinSupportMotiontoXfer

Here is the Government’s answer to the initial complaint: 43 – Answer

The plaintiffs also filed a motion for summary judgment before time had run for the Government to respond to the initial complaint:

PartialSummaryJudgment_MotioninSupport

Documents filed in this case are also all being kept here (under the “Kathryn E. Fort” tab at the top of Turtle Talk’s main page).