Here are the briefs in Harris v. Lake of the Torches Resort & Casino (Wis. App.):
Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Materials in PACT Act & CCTA Claim in New York
Here are the materials in State of New York v. King Mountain Tobacco Co. (E.D. N.Y.):
Federal Court Decides Walker River Paiute NAHASDA Funding Allocation Challenge
Here are the materials in Walker River Paiute Tribe v. HUD (D. Nev.):
18 Walker River Paiute Motion for Summary J
21 HUD Response & Cross Motion
Second Circuit Rejects Schaghticoke Land Claims
Here is the unpublished opinion in Schaghticoke Tribal Nation v. Kent School Corp. Inc.:
An excerpt:
Ultimately, the district court concluded that the evidence submitted by STN was insufficient to satisfy the Montoya standard requiring that the group be “united in a community under one leadership or government.” Montoya, 180 U.S. at 266. In so deciding, it relied on DOI’s conclusions that STN had presented insufficient direct evidence of a distinct tribal community from 1920 to 1967 and after 1996, and of political authority over tribal members from 1801 to 1875 and after 1996. It was appropriate for the district court to rely on the DOI’s factual findings. To hold to the contrary would require the district court to conduct the independent, complex evidentiary hearing that this Court sought to avoid in Golden Hill.
Briefs and lower court materials here.
Ninth Circuit Materials in Tulalip Tribes v. State of Washington — Gaming Compact Dispute
Here are the briefs:
Oral argument audio here.
Lower court materials here:
Little Traverse Bay Bands Odawa Court Administrator Posting
Bank of the Sierra v. Picayune Rancheria of the Chukchansi Indians Materials
Casino, Marijuana, and Same-Sex Marriage News from Keweenaw Bay Indian Community
Update in Habeas Matter in Nez Perce Tribal Court
Here a motion for default in the matter captioned Cunningham v. Card:
We posted the petition here.
Jeannine Bell on How to Improve Discussion of Race in the Classroom
Here is “How to Improve Discussion of Race in the Classroom,” by Jeannine Bell, who teaches at Indiana University law school.
An excerpt:
The grand juries’ decisions not to indict white police officers in the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner bore all the hallmarks of sensitive topics that, to keep the peace, should be discussed only in private, or in small groups of people who share the same race and politics.
I don’t have that luxury. I teach criminal procedure to a racially mixed group of law students. Early in the semester we had discussed the constitutional requirements for the use of deadly force by the police. Coming into class the day after the Ferguson decision was announced, I knew we needed to talk.
I also wanted to talk. Though segregation is no longer required by law, too many Americans nevertheless grew up in segregated neighborhoods and attended segregated schools. A 2013 study by the Public Religion Research Institute revealed many whites’ social networks to be overwhelmingly—more than 90 percent—white. Giving in to the temptation to avoid all talk of race is a mistake because it helps perpetuate those divides.
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