Texas Appellate Court Suppresses Evidence Acquired by Tribal Police because of State’s Failure to Prove Tribe Had Power to Detain under Cooley

Here are the materials in State of Texas v. Astorga (Tex. Ct. App. El Paso):

Opinion

State Brief

Astorga Brief

Reply

Letter Brief

Ysleta del Sur Pueblo

North Dakota District Court Orders Eviction of Tribal Member from Indian Housing Authority Located on Fee Lands

Here is the opinion in Trenton Indian Housing Authority v. Poitra (N.D. Dist. Ct.):

District Court Decision

Upper Skagit Prevails over Sauk-Suiattle in U&A Litigation

Here is the decision in United States v. Washington, subproceeding 20-01 (W.D. Wash.):

47 DCT Order

Briefs are here.

Chinook fishing on Skagit River, NWIFC

Eighth Circuit Briefs in Minnesota Dept. of Natural Resources v. White Earth Band of Ojibwe

Here:

Opening Brief

Answer Brief

Amicus Brief

Lower court materials here.

Ninth Circuit Decides Shingle Springs v. Caballero

Here is the unpublished opinion in Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians v. Caballero.

Briefs:

Ninth Circuit Oral Argument in Oak Flat Case

Briefs are here.

Fletcher & Singel on Lawyering the Indian Child Welfare Act

Fletcher and Singel have posted “Lawyering the Indian Child Welfare Act,” forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review‘s upcoming symposium on civil rights lawyering. Here is the abstract:

This Essay 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 where 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 Essay is to help expose those structural issues and the ethically troublesome practices of adoption attorneys as the most important ICWA case in history, Brackeen v. Haaland, reaches the Supreme Court.

U. Wisc. Law Review Podcast on the Indian Law Restatement

Here is the “The Restatement of the Law of American Indians” episode of the podcast of the University of Wisconsin Law Review, “Forward.”

Roger Williams Univ. Law School’s Indian Law Conference: “An Uncomfortable Truth: Indigenous Communities and Law in New England” [afternoon panels]

Bethany Sullivan and Jennifer Turner

Roger Williams Univ. Law School’s Indian Law Conference: “An Uncomfortable Truth: Indigenous Communities and Law in New England” [late morning panels]

Bethany Berger
Jim Diamond

Prior post here.