National Indian Law Library Bulletin (6/17/2020)

Here:

We have scoured the web. Here are some of the latest materials related to Indian Law. Find all of the latest updates at narf.org/nill/bulletins/

Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2020.html

  • Solonex, LLC v. Bernhardt (Oil and Gas Leasing)
  • Winnemucca Indian Colony v. United States (Tribal Elections)
  • Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians v. Mnuchin (CARES Act)
  • Lingenfelter v. Liptak (RLUIPA)
  • Water Works Board of the City of Birmingham v. U.S. Bank National Association (Fraud)

U.S. Legislation – 116th Congress Bulletin
https://narf.org/nill/bulletins/legislation/116_uslegislation.html

  • H.R.7173 – To protect the status of lands held in trust for the benefit of federally recognized Indian Tribes, and for other purposes.
  • S.3937 – A bill to amend section 330C of the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize special programs for Indians for providing services for the prevention and treatment of diabetes, and for other purposes.
  • S.3948 – A bill to amend the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children Act to extend the deadline for a report by the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children, and for other purposes.

Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin (contact us if you need help finding a copy of an article)
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/lawreviews/2020.html

  • Indigenizing professional responsibility.

News Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.html
This week, in brief:

  • Ruling cancels energy lease in the Badger-Two Medicine area
  • A hospital’s secret coronavirus policy separated Native American mothers from their newborns
  • How the Yurok Tribe is reclaiming the Klamath River
  • ‘It’s so important for our young people to vote’
  • COVID-19 exposes inadequate funding levels at Indian Health Service
  • Museum of Indian Arts and Culture puts curriculum on tribes online
  • Man sentenced for stealing Ancestral Puebloan artifacts
  • Iron Range board tables Fond du Lac water treatment funding over band’s ‘anti-mining’ stances
  • Navajo leaders lay out plan to spend relief funds, shield elderly from ‘this monster’
  • UC Berkeley has nearly 500,000 tribal artifacts and remains. It isn’t giving them back quickly
  • In Apache, we say ‘Ndąą Diłhił’í bi’idąą da’ilįį’ (Black Lives Matter)

Cayuga Sues Interior over Delayed Trust Land Acquisition

Here is the complaint in Cayuga Nation v. United States (D.D.C.):

1 Complaint

St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, Pala Band, Fond du Lac & Oglala Sue Juul for Targeting Tribal Youth

Here is the complaint in St. Regis Mohawk Tribe v. Juul Labs, Inc. (N.D. Cal.):

1 Complaint

Here is the complaint in Pala Band of Mission Indians v. Juul Labs, Inc. (N.D. Cal.):

1 Complaint

Here is the complaint in Oglala Sioux Tribe v. Juul Labs, Inc. (N.D. Cal.):

1 Complaint

Here is the complaint in Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa v. Juul Labs, Inc. (N.D. Cal.):

1 Complaint

HCN: “How the Yurok Tribe is reclaiming the Klamath River”

Here.

Federal Court Orders Treasury to Immediately Disburses Remaining $679M in CARES Act Money

Here is the order in Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians v. Munchkin (D.D.C.):

aqua-caliente-order.pdf

More materials here.

Second Circuit Briefs in Seneca Nation of Indians v. State of New York [gaming dispute arbitration award]

Here:

Seneca Brief

New York Brief

Reply

Lower court materials here.

D.C. Circuit Affirms Interior’s Cancellation of Oil & Gas Lease at Badger-Two Medicine Area

Here is the opinion in Solonex LLC v. Bernhardt.

Briefs here.

Ninth Circuit Decides Winnemucca Indian Colony v. United States [leadership dispute]

Here is the unpublished opinion in Winnemucca Indian Colony v. United States.

Briefs here.

Bostock v. Clayton County Opinion

Just ‘cuz it seems the SCOTUS webpage is overwhelmed:

Bostock Opinion

Navajo Prevails on Damages Amount in 2014 Tribal Court Funding

Here are the materials in Navajo Nation v. Bernhardt (D.D.C.):

37 Federal Memorandum on Entry of Judgment

38 Navajo Response

39 Reply

44 Navajo Memorandum on Damages

45 Federal Response

46 Reply

48 DCT Order

Prior post here.