Eighth Circuit Largely Vacates Injunction in Winnebago Tax Fight with Nebraska

Here is the opinion in HCI Distribution Inc. v. Peterson.

Briefs here.

Arizona Attorney Magazine Special Issue on Indian Law

Here:

Articles:

Assistant Secretary Releases Volume II of the Boarding School Report

Here:

Excerpt:

Accordingly, I am submitting to you Volume II of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report. This second volume adds to our understanding of the Federal Indian boarding school system by:

• Updating the official list of Federal Indian boarding schools to include 417 institutions across 37 states or then-territories;

• Providing detailed profiles of each Federal Indian boarding school;

• Identifying 1,025 other institutions that did not satisfy the four criteria used for this investigation, but were nevertheless used to advance similar assimilation and education policy goals;

• Confirming that at least 973 American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children died while attending Federal Indian boarding schools;

• Confirming that there are at least 74 marked and unmarked burial sites at 65 different school sites;

• Listing 127 different Treaties between the United States and Indian Tribes that implicate the Federal Indian boarding school system; and,

Reporting that the Department estimates that the U.S. Government made appropriations available of more than $23.3 billion in FY23 inflation-adjusted dollars between 1871 and 1969 for the Federal Indian boarding school system as well as other similar institutions and associated assimilation policies.

Jaune Smith

The first volume is here.

California Federal Court Orders Augustine Band and State of California to Reach Class III Gaming Compact within 60 Days

Here are the materials in Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians v. State of California (C.D. Cal.):

Ninth Circuit Oral Argument in California v. Azuma Corp.

Here:

Briefs here.

D.C. Federal Court Rules against Narragansett Challenge to Federal Highway Project

Here are the materials in Narragansett Indian Tribe v. Bhatt (D.D.C.):

Prior post here.

Not the Highway at issue. . . .

Ninth Circuit Restores Suit against Feds in L.B. v. United States

Here is the unpublished opinion.

Briefs here.

One of the shittier efforts by DOJ to weasel out of accountability I’ve seen (and there are plenty). Glad the government’s position was booted so unceremoniously.

Oklahoma Federal Court Declines to Suppress Evidence Obtained from Cherokee Search Warrant Lacking Probable Cause

Here are the materials in United States v. Holt (N.D. Okla.):

Split Tenth Circuit Panel Vacates Major Crimes Act Conviction Due to Government’s Failure to Prove Indian Status of Defendant

Here is the opinion in United States v. Wood.

Briefs:

Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Sues County Sheriff over Civil-Regulatory Jurisdiction

Here is the complaint in Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation v. Morse (D. Kan.):