This means that the United States is potentially liable under the Federal Tort Claims Act. Let the settlement negotiations proceed.
Opinion in L.B. v. United States:
Argued by April Youpee-Roll in her first argument. She kicked some serious onze in this one.
Briefs:
Here is the opinion in Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. Evers:
Briefs and lower court materials here.
Here are the materials in Rabang v. Gilliland:
Fletcher and Singel’s paper, “Lawyering the Indian Child Welfare Act,” has been published in the Michigan Law Review. We’re honored to be part of a symposium on civil rights lawyering!
Our abstract:
This Article describes how the statutory structure of child welfare laws enables lawyers and courts to exploit deep-seated stereotypes about American Indian people rooted in systemic racism to undermine the enforcement of the rights of Indian families and tribes. Even when Indian custodians and tribes are able to protect their rights in court, their adversaries use those same advantages on appeal to attack the constitutional validity of the law. The primary goal of this Article is to help expose those structural issues and the ethically troublesome practices of adoption attorneys as the most important Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) case in history, Brackeen v. Haaland, reaches the Supreme Court.
Here are the updated materials in Coyote Band of Pomo Indians v. Findleton (N.D. Cal.):
Prior post here.
We delighted that Wenona Singel has joined us this year. Guess it’s time to get cracking on the eighth edition. . . .
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