NYTs: “Biden Will Pick Deb Haaland to Lead Interior Department”

Here.

Fifth Circuit Decides Federal Diversity Jurisdiction Matter Involving Hoopa Valley Tribe

Here is the opinion in Mitchell v. Bailey.

Briefs and lower court materials here.

New Scholarship on the Tribal Right to Object to the Death Penalty

Grant Christenson has published “The Wrongful Death of an Indian: A Tribe’s Right to Object to the Death Penalty” in the UCLA Law Review Discourse.

Church Parishioners Cert Petition in Seminole Tribe Immunity Case

Here is the petition in Eglise Baptiste Bethanie De Ft. Lauderdale Inc. v. Seminole Tribe of Florida:

Eglise Baptiste v Seminole Cert Petition

Questions presented:

(1) Is a Native American tribe sovereignly immune from a civil suit for damages caused by the off-reservation violations by its police officers of the “place of religious worship” provisions of the Freedom of Access To Clinic Entrances Act of 1994, 18 U.S.C. § 248(a)(2) (“the Access Act”)?
(2) Are the “place of religious worship” and civil remedies provisions of the Access Act, as applied to a congregational leadership dispute, unenforceable because those provisions violate the Establishment of Religion and Free Exercise of Religion Clauses of the First Amendment to the United States Constitution?

Lower court materials here.

Update:

Seminole BIO

NYTs: “Cleveland’s Baseball Team Will Drop Its Indians Team Name”

Here.

Federal Claims Court Dismisses Opioid Claims Arising under Bad Men Clause

Here are the materials in Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes v. United States (Fed. Cl.):

7-1 US Motion to Dismiss

10 Response

11 Reply

14 DCt Order

We posted the complaint here.

Federal Court Rejects Defenses of Tunica-Biloxi’s Sovereign Lending Company

Here are the materials in Dunn v. Global Trust Management (M.D. Fla.):

1 Complaint

13 Defendant Motions to Compel & for Judgment on Pleadings

18 Response

23 Reply

37 DCt Order

And here are the materials in McIntosh v. Global Trust Management (M.D. Fla.):

1 Complaint

24 Defendant Motion to Compel & for Judgment on Pleadings

31 Response

34 Reply

46 DCT Order

US Amicus Brief in FMC Corp. v. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes

Here:

US Invitation Brief

Cert stage materials here.

Cal. Law Review Online Roundtable: Responding to “Politics, Indian Law, and the Constitution”

The article is here.