Minnesota Federal Court Declines to Dismiss Mille Lacs Band Suit against County Attorney and Sheriff after Remand from Eighth Circuit

Here are the updated materials in Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians v. County of Mille Lacs (D. Minn.):

292 CA8 Order Dismissing Appeal

305 County Sheriff Motion to Dismiss

308 Response

310 Reply

Prior post here.

Community house on the agency near Vineland Bay on Mille Lacs Lake, Minnesota

Grist: “Do salmon have rights?”

Here.

Siwash Indian fishing for salmon – pushing down the net, Fraser River, B.C., Canada

Strict Scrutiny Podcast Episode on the Denezpi Argument: “Indian Law Hall of Fame”

Here.

Blurb: “Leah recaps Denezpi v. United States, an important case about tribal sovereignty, with Matthew Fletcher(Michigan State University & Chief Justice of the Pokagon band of Potawatomi Indians Court of Appeals) & April Youpee-Roll (Munger Tolles & Olson), which may involve … Neil Gorsuch’s heel turn in Indian law?!?”

Topside Briefs in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta

Here:

Amicus briefs:

Oklahoma DAs and Sheriffs Amicus Brief

Police Chiefs Amicus Brief

Polluters Amicus Brief

States Amicus Brief Supporting Oklahoma

Tulsa Amicus Brief

Reply

Cert stage and lower court materials here.

MCN Supreme Court Decides Thlopthlocco Tribal Town v. Anderson

Annual Report of Extension and Industry, Five Civilized Tribes, Muskogee, OK, 1940

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

Here:

Sauk-Suiattle Opening Brief

220429 Answer Brief of Appellees Upper Skagit

220429 Answer Brief of Intervenor-PL-Appellee Swinomish

220617 – FINAL Reply (filed)

Sauk-Suiattle fishermen on the Skagit River in 1985. The location was near Mount Vernon, Washington, and it was known as Sauk Camp because of the large number of Sauk-Suiattle boats that were kept there.

Lower court materials here and here.

Columbia Law School Panel: “Faith and Native Communities: Fighting for Freedom of – and from – Religion”

36th Annual Coming Together of Peoples Conference, University of Wisconsin Law School March 3rd through the 5th

The 36th Annual Coming Together of Peoples Conference is taking place March 3rd through March 5th. This conference is the longest-running Federal Indian Law conference in the country. The areas of Federal Indian law that this year’s conference encompass a multitude of subjects, cases, and experts, such as: the success of tribes at the United States Supreme Court; the newly amended Oneida gaming compact and its impact on the future of Wisconsin gaming; the current state of ICWA; an Ethics panel, and more. Aurene Martin (UW ‘93), Managing Partner and Founding Member of Spirit Rock Consulting will deliver the keynote address.

The conference has been approved for 11 (1.5EPR) CLE credits in the state of Wisconsin, CLE credits are pending for the state of Minnesota. Please register using this link https://www.eventbrite.com/e/36th-annual-coming-together-of-peoples-conference-tickets-240455598167

Biden’s SCT Nominee is Ketanji Brown Jackson

NYTs

WSJ

WaPo

The only Indian law opinion we can find that Judge Brown Jackson wrote was in Fredericks v. Dept. of the Interior, a dispute over gas royalties at Fort Berthold.

The second Indian law opinion we found after actually making an effort to look is Mackinaw Band v. Jewell, where the court ordered the tribe to exhaust administrative remedies in a federal recognition suit:

Judge Brown Jackson also wrote an opinion in a pro se prisoner FOIA request to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Kovalevich v. BIA. Judge Brown Jackson also rejected a facial challenge in Rothe v. Dept. of Defense to Section 8(a) of the Small Business Act that benefits many tribes and tribal businesses. In Sierra Club v. Army Corps, she excused the government from having to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement to assess environmental impacts from the approval of a domestic pipeline, a case that recalls the Dakota Access decision, which reached the opposite conclusion.

Judge Brown Jackson clerked for Justice Breyer in the 1999 Term, when Rice v. Cayetano was decision (Breyer went the wrong way on that one).

Judge Brown Jackson also clerked for First Circuit Judge Selya from 1999 to 2000. Judge Selya wrote the opinion in Ninigret Development v. Narragansett Indian Wetuomuck Housing Authority, where the court rejected a tribal sovereign immunity defense from a contract dispute.

Louisiana Federal Court Dismisses Civil Rights Suit against Chitimacha by Former Casino CFO

Here are the materials in Spivey v. Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana (W.D. La.):

1 Complaint

16-1 Motion to Dismiss

20 Opposition

23 Reply

24 Magistrate Report

27 DCT Order

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