Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Ninth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of San Carlos Apache Health Care Contract Support Costs Suit

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the opinion in San Carlos Apache Tribe v. Beccera.

An excerpt:

A simplified example clarifies this scheme. Assume that a tribe administers a $3 million healthcare program for its members. It costs the tribe $500,000 in administrative costs to do so. IHS therefore will pay the tribe $3.5 million. Additionally, the tribe recovers $1 million for those procedures from outside insurers. It is statutorily required to spend that $1 million on health care as well.
But there is a hole in this statutory scheme. Who pays the CSC for that additional $1 million in health care that the tribe must provide with its third-party revenue? At the heart of this lawsuit is Plaintiff-Appellant San Carlos Apache Tribe’s (“the Tribe”) contention that IHS must cover those additional CSC.

Briefs here.

This guy’s not Apache but he’s happy for them.

Indigenous Futures and New Zealand’s Constitution — The Constitutional Kōrero: Transforming New Zealand’s Constitution — Turtle Island Panel Today

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Always fun to get a chance to talk about Anishinaabe law, constitutions, and jurisprudence.

Here.

Here is the comic book.

Hilary Tompkins: “I’m a Jersey girl born into the Salt Clan. My Navajo identity was taken from me”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

Harvard Law Review Profiles of Denezpi and Ysleta del Sur Cases

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the profile of Denezpi v. United States.

Here is the profile of Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas.

Justice Story’s finger in the Harvard law school library.

Alaska Federal Court Holds Fair Labor Standards Act Inapplicable to Southcentral Foundation

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the materials in Meglitsch v. Southcentral Foundation (D. Alaska):

1 Notice of Removal

1-1 State Court Complaint

22 Southcentral Motion for Summary J

29 Opposition

33 Reply

38 DCT Order

Oklahoma SCT Materials in Wren v. Yates

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

Summary Disposition Order

Darby Concurrence

Combs Concurring

Gurich Concurring

Appellant Brief

Related case here.

Ninth Circuit Oral Argument in Swinomish v. Lummi [U.S. v. Washington subproceeding 19-01]

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

Briefs here.

Ninth Circuit Oral Argument in Upper Skagit v. Sauk-Suiattle [U.S. v. Washington subproceeding 20-01]

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

Briefs here.