Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Wakpamni Lake Corp. Seeks Relief from Default Judgment in TED Bonds Fraud Case

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the pleading from Michelin Retirement Plan v. Dilworth Paxon LLP (D.S.C.):

608 WLCC Rule 60 Motion

608-1 Lone Hill Declaration

608-15 Victim Impact Statement

608-16 Raynes Declaration

An excerpt from the motion:

In or about the fall of 2017, a man named Quattlebaum contacted WLCC and Wakpamni Lake Community President Lone Hill on three separate occasions. (Lone Hill Decl. ¶ 27; see also Raynes Decl. ¶ 16.) President Lone Hill understood that Mr. Quattlebaum was Judge Quattlebaum, then a United States District Judge for this Court.1 (Lone Hill Decl. ¶ 27; see also Raynes Decl. ¶ 16.) Mr. Quattlebaum asked President Lone Hill about the financial state of WLCC and Wakpamni Lake Community and about the subject matter of the lawsuit. (Lone Hill Decl. ¶ 27.) Based on the information received, Mr. Quattlebaum deduced that WLCC and the Wakpamni Lake Community were destitute. (Id.) President Lone Hill understood from her conversations with Mr. Quattlebaum that he understood and appreciated their innocent and impoverished position. President Lone Hill further understood and believed that Mr. Quattlebaum—as a judge of this Court—indicated to her that no further action was needed with respect to this case.

Prior post in this case here.

Connecticut SCT Briefs in Great Plains Lending LLC v. State of Connecticut Dept. of Banking

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

Great Plains Brief

State Brief

Great Plains Reply

State Reply

Prior post here.

Call for Nominations for the 2021 Lawrence R. Baca Lifetime Achievement Award

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Call for Nominations for the 2021 Lawrence R. Baca Lifetime Achievement Award  

Please consider nominating someone for the 2021 Lawrence R. Baca Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Federal Indian Law!

Past recipients include Lawrence R. Baca, Professor Phil Frickey, John Echohawk, Professor David Getches, Alan Taradash, Professor Carole E. Goldberg, Tom Fredericks, Walter Echo-Hawk, Arlinda Locklear, Professor Charles Wilkinson, Professor Bill Rice, Professor Rob Williams, Eric Eberhard and Heather Kendall Miller, Frank Ducheneaux, Reid Peyton Chambers, Harry Sachse, and Hon. Abby Abinanti. 

The deadlinefor nominations is Friday, February 12, 2021.  

Qualifications: 

1. Nominee must have worked in the field of Indian law for at least twenty years as a practitioner, judge, legislator, leader, scholar or educator; 

2. Be of good standing and held in high esteem in his or her professional arena; 

3. And have made significant contributions to the field of Indian law through litigation, development of legislation, scholarship, or the development of Indian law students or through tribal leadership. 

Please view the award page for nomination and submission details.    

Buddha Reads Some Poetry for These Pandemic Times

Matthew L.M. Fletcher
more here: https://libguides.law.usd.edu/c.php?g=744258&p=8135137

Feds Foreclose on Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Borrowers under Indian Loan Guarantee and Insurance Program

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the materials in United States v. Hump (D.S.D.):

1 Complaint

11 US Motion for Summary J

16 Opposition

18 Reply

19 Opposition

20 Reply

21 DCT Order

Agenda for UWisc. Symposium on Violence against Indigenous Women

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

PDF: Symposium Tentative Agenda_01.28.21

Cherokee Prisoner’s Second Habeas Petition Denied Despite McGirt

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the materials in Berry v. Whitten (N.D. Okla.):

2 Second Unauthorized Habeas Petition

4 DCT Order

Tulalip, Suquamish, Swinomish, and Upper Skagit Reach Settlement with State on Crab Harvest Estimates

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the materials in United States v. Washington, subproceeding 89-03 (W.D. Wash.):

14809 Joint Stipulation

14810 DCT Order

ASU E-Commerce Conference (Feb. 2021)

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Oklahoma SCT Declares Gov. Stitt’s Gaming Compacts with UKB and Kialegee are Invalid

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the opinion in Treat v. Stitt.

Briefs:

Petitioner’s Brief

Response Brief

Petitioner’s Reply Brief

An excerpt:

Petitioners, the Honorable Greg Treat, Senate President Pro Tempore, and the Honorable Charles McCall, Speaker of the House, request the Court to assume original jurisdiction to declare that the new tribal gaming compacts between the State and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians and between the State and the Kialegee Tribal Town are invalid under Oklahoma law. The Court assumes original jurisdiction. Okla. Const. art. VII, § 4. The Court invokes its publici juris doctrine to assume original jurisdiction here as Petitioners have presented this Court with an issue of public interest in urgent need of judicial determination. Fent v. Contingency Review Bd., 2007 OK 27, ¶ 11, 163 P.3d 512, 521. The Court grants the declaratory relief sought by Petitioners, as the Executive branch did not validly enter into the new tribal gaming compacts with the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians and the Kialegee Tribal Town. Ethics Comm’n of State of Okla. v. Cullison, 1993 OK 37, ¶ 4, 850 P.2d 1069, 1072.