Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher

McGirt v. Oklahoma SCT Argument Set for April 21

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the April calendar.

Here are the background materials on the case.

Ninth Circuit Oral Argument Video in Yakama Nation v. Yakima County

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

Briefs here.

News Profile of the Wet’suwet’en and Gitxsan Pipeline Battle

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is “‘We Have to Stand Together’: A Tale of Two Nations.”

Habeas Petition of State Prisoner Convicted of Crime against Fallon Paiute- Shoshone Tribe Allowed to Proceed

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the materials in Berry v. Baca (D. Nev.):

23-dct-orderDownload
24-first-amended-habeas-petitionDownload
28-state-motion-to-dismissDownload
32-responseDownload
33-replyDownload
34-dct-orderDownload

Joint Committee on Taxation Report on Taxation of Indians and Tribes

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here. (jct-report.pdf)

North Carolina SCT Decides Indian Status in Criminal Jurisdiction Case

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the materials in State v. Nobles:

opinion.pdf

appellant-brief.pdf

appellee-brief.pdf

reply.pdf

Lower court materials here.

South Dakota Cert Petition in IGRA Preemption Case [updated with cert stage materials]

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the petition in Noem v. Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe:

noem-v-flandreau-cert-petition.pdf

appendix-2.pdf

BIO

Reply

Question presented:

Does the  Bracker test currently serve as a consistent and predictable rule of law in light of the exponential expansion of Indian gaming since 1988 and the fiscal demands the industry now places on state budgets?

Lower court materials here.

First Circuit Decides Littlefield v. Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the opinion.

Briefs here.

House Resources Subcommittee Hearing: “Destroying Sacred Sites and Erasing Tribal Culture: The Trump Administration’s Construction of the Border Wall”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

Witness List

Panel I

The Honorable Ned Norris, Jr. (testimony)

Chairman The Tohono O’odham Nation 

Sells, AZ 

Ms. Sarah Krakoff (testimony)

Moses Lasky Professor of Law

University of Colorado Law School

Boulder, CO 

Ms. Shannon Keller O’Loughlin (testimony)

Executive Director 

Association on American Indian Affairs 

Rockville, MD 

Mr. Steve Hodapp (testimony)

Retired Independent Contractor & Environmental Specialist

Lexington, VA 

Panel II

Dr. Anna Maria Ortiz (testimony)

Director, Natural Resources and Environment

U.S. Government Accountability Office

Washington, D.C.

Mr. Scott Cameron (testimony)

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget

U.S. Department of the Interior

Washington, D.C.

Recent Indian Law Scholarship Posted on SSRN

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

An Introduction to American Indian Land Tenure: Mapping the Legal Landscape

5 J. L. Prop. & Soc. 1 (2019)

Jessica A. Shoemaker

Not Yet America’s Best Idea: Law, Inequality, and Grand Canyon National Park

91 University of Colorado Law Review 559 (2020), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-3

Sarah Krakoff

Seminole Tribe v. Florida: Sovereignty and the Eleventh Amendment Imag(in)ed

Painting Constitutional Law: Xavier Cortada’s Images of Constitutional Rights (H. Wasserman & M. Mirow eds., 2021, Forthcoming), Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 20-01

James E. Pfander


The Katie John Litigation: A Continuing Search for Alaska Native Fishing Rights after ANCSA

Arizona State Law Journal, Vol. 51, No. 3, Pp. 845-77 (2019)

Robert T. Anderson

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