Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Frank Pommersheim has published “I Was So Much Older Then/I’m Younger Than That Now: Valedictory Notes and Collage” in the South Dakota Law Review (pdf).

Here is an excerpt:

Teacher, Scholar, Tribal Justice, Colleague. These are theseasons turning and braiding across my years and decades in thefield, the factory, and the monastery of my work and vocation.The toil of craft and building community. Yet there is alsosomething valedictory and elegiac that guides this pen and spillsthis ink in the desire to provide both a professional and personalsense of my thirty-five years of service at the University of SouthDakota School of Law (hereinafter USD).

Frank (far right) at the Montana Law Review symposium 2018

Federal Court Denies TRO in Flandreau Hemp Dispute

June 7, 2019June 7, 2019Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the materials so far in Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe v. United States Department of Agriculture (D.S.D.):

News Profile on Pine Ridge Home Construction

June 6, 2019Matthew L.M. Fletcher

From HuffPo, here is “This Community Is Striving To Rebuild One Of The Poorest Places In America.”

National Indian Law Library Bulletin (6/5/2019)

June 6, 2019Matthew L.M. Fletcher

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The National Indian Law Library added new content to the Indian Law Bulletins on 6/5/19.

U.S. Supreme Court Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/sct/2018-2019update.html
The following cases recently were denied review:

Carter v. Sweeney (Civil Rights Act)
Comanche Nation of Oklahoma v. Zinke (Land into Trust; Jurisdiction)
Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida v. United States (Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act- Income)
Jim v. United States (Federal Taxation)
Allergan, Inc. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc. (Patents)

Tribal Courts Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/tribal/2019.html
Mary Dominique v. Mashantucket Pequot Gaming Enterprise and Scooter A Long, LLC. (Personal Injury)
Allen Russell II v. Laureen Yellow Hammer/Combs (Child Custody)

Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2019.html
United States v. Smith (Assimilative Crimes Act; Indian Country Crimes Act)
Kim R. Jim v. Shiprock Associated Schools, Inc. (Indian Tribe – Definition of)

State Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/state/2019.html
State v. Roy (Sentencing)
In re Radience K. (Indian Child Welfare Act – Active Efforts)
People in Interest of L.R.B., S.B.B., and K.B.B. (Indian Child Welfare Act – Transfer to Tribal Court)

Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin (contact us if you need help finding a copy of an article)
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/lawreviews/2019.html

Improving justice and avoiding colonization in managing climate change related disasters: A case study of Alaska Native villages.
The Race Horse that wouldn’t die: On Herrera v. Wyoming.
Protecting native women from violence: Fostering state-tribal relations and the shortcomings of the Violence Against Women Act of 2013.
What the future may hold for victims of domestic and sexual violence without the Violence Against Women Act.
New York’s quest for jurisdiction over Indian lands.
New York State’s recent judicial collaboration with Indigenous partners: The story of New York’s federal-state-tribal courts and Indian Nations Justice Forum.
The origins and evolution of the Indian Child Welfare Act.
Thomas Indian School.
The causal effect: Implications of chronic underfunding in school systems on the Navajo reservation.
When tribal disenrollment becomes cruel and unusual.
The dark side of tribal sovereign immunity: The gap between law and remedy.
Legal pluralism and indigenous peoples rights: Challenges in litigation and recognition of indigenous peoples rights.
Privatizing the reservation?
Partially tribal land: The case for limiting state eminent domain power under 25 USC 357.
The unlikely duo that shocked the intellectual property world and why the Supreme Court was the chosen one to restore balance.
Defining ‘Indian.’

News Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.html
In the Intergovernmental section, we feature an article about an effort to form Alaska’s first official inter-tribal court system.

Legislation Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/legislation/116_uslegislation.html
The following bills were added:
S.2961: The Samish Indian Land Reaffirmation Act.
H.R.2579: Hardrock Leasing and Reclamation Act of 2019.

Regulatory Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/regulatory/2019.html
One of the items we cover this week includes a notice of the National Park Service regarding tribal consultation to obtain input from Tribes on proposed changes to regulations governing the National Register of Historic Places.