SCOTUS Grants U.S. v. Cooley

Here is the order list for today.

Here are the cert stage briefs.

Here are the lower court materials.

Federal Court Declines to Dismiss Copyright Infringement Action against Tribal Official

Here are the materials in Marlon Blackwell Architects PA v. HBG Design Inc. (E.D. Ark.):

1 Complaint

9 HBG Motion to Dismiss

11 Berrey Motion to Dismiss

13 Saracen Development Motion to Dismiss

17 Response

33 DCT Order

Federal Court Finds Factual Misrepresentations Made to Fourth Circuit in Williams v. Big Picture Loans LLC

Here are the materials in Williams v. Big Picture Loans LLC (E.D. Va.) (this case is on remand from the Fourth Circuit):

599 DCT Order

601 DCT Order

613 Martorello Statement of Position

624 Williams Response to 613

784 Williams Statement of Position

910 Williams Supplemental Memorandum

944 DCT Order

Excerpts: Continue reading

Federal Court Rejects Alaska’s Effort to Stop Emergency, COVID-19 Related Subsistence Hunts

Here is the order in State of Alaska v. Federal Subsistence Board (D. Alaska):

37 DCT Order

Briefs are here.

Grist: “A record 6 Native Americans were elected to Congress. Here’s where they stand on climate.”

Here.

Oklahoma SCT Decides Comanche Nation of Oklahoma ex rel. Comanche Nation Tourism Center v. Coffey

Here is the opinion. From the syllabus:

Plaintiff/Appellant Comanche Nation of Oklahoma, a federally recognized Indian Tribe, ex rel. Comanche Nation Tourism Center, filed a lawsuit seeking a declaratory judgment that Defendant/Appellant Wallace Coffey was indebted to it for the amount of the outstanding balance on an open account. The trial court granted Coffey’s motion to dismiss for lack of subject matter jurisdiction and dismissed the case with prejudice. Thereafter, Coffey filed an application for prevailing party attorney fees pursuant to 12 O.S.2011 § 936. The trial court denied Coffey’s request for attorney fees, finding he was not the prevailing party because he had not prevailed on the merits of the action. Coffey appealed the order denying attorney fees, and this Court retained the appeal. We hold a defendant is not a “prevailing party” within the meaning of 12 O.S. § 936 when the court dismisses the action with prejudice for lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The trial court’s order denying Coffey’s motion for attorney fees is affirmed.

Here are pdfs of the separate opinions:

Majority Opinion

Kauger DIssent

Combs Dissent

And the lone pleading I could locate:

Petition in Error

Vox: “The case for a Native American secretary of the interior”

Here.

Stat: “‘They’ve been following the science’: How the Covid-19 pandemic has been curtailed in Cherokee Nation”

Here.

Update in Jensen v. EXC, Inc. [bus accident on Navajo lands]

Here are the materials in Jensen v. EXC Inc. (D. Ariz.):

71 Amended Complaint

116 Jensen MSJ

119 Response

121 Reply

126 DCT Order Denying MSJ

181 EXC Pre-Trial Brief

200 Verdict

220 Jensen Motion for Judgment as a Matter of Law

221 Response

222 Reply

223 DCT Order Denying 220

And here are the Ninth Circuit briefs (so far):

Opening Brief

Answer Brief

reply-1-1.pdf

Prior posts on this case are here.

Tenth Circuit Confirms Sentence on Cherokee Nation Citizen’s Conviction for Child Neglect

Here is the opinion in United States v. Clark.