Ninth Circuit Motions Panel Denies TransCanada’s Motion for Stay in Challenge to Keystone XL Pipeline

Here is the order in Indigenous Environmental Network v. Dept. of State:

ca9-order-denying-motion-for-stay.pdf

Briefs:

transcanada-motion-for-stay.pdf

indigenous-environmental-network-opposition.pdf

northern-plains-opposition.pdf

fort-peck-amicus-brief.pdf

transcanada-reply.pdf

Anderson and Krakoff Bears Ears Op Ed

Here.

Reviews of Nick Estes’ “Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance”

NPR

The Intercept

HNN

The book webpage from Verso is here.

South Dakota Preparing to Kill Free Speech on Behalf of Pipeline Companies

From High Country News, here is “South Dakota pushes bills to prosecute ‘riot-boosting’ ahead of pipeline construction.

High Country News: “Is a new copyright law a ‘colonization of knowledge’?”

Here.

New Scholarship on Religious Liberty Land Use Claims

Here is “Trespass or Vandalism or Protecting That Which is Holy? Religious Liberty Land-Use Claims,” published in the Columbia Law Review Online, by Edward K. Olds.

Yellowstone Bison Environmental Suit Dismissed

Here are the materials in Cottonwood Environmental Law Center v. Bernhardt (D. Mont.):

33 Motion to File Second Amended Complaint + Proposed Complaint

36 State Response to 33

38 Federal Response to 33

39 Reply in Support of 33

45 DCT Order Granting 33

48 Federal Motion to Dismiss

50 State Motion to Dismiss

53 Plaintiff Motion to Stay

54 Response to 48 and 50

57 Federal Reply in Support of 48

58 State Reply in Support of 50

62 Reply in Support of 53

81 DCt Order

Salt Lake Tribune: “Split appears in San Juan as new Navajo-led County Commission moves to support an even bigger Bears Ears than Trump shrunk”

Here.

Federal Court Dismisses Dakota Access Pipeline-Related RICO Suit Brought by Pipeline Co. against Greenpeace and Individual Indians

Here are the materials in Energy Transfer Equity LP v. Greenpeace International (D.N.D.):

95 Amended Complaint

102 Greenpeace Fund MTD

103-1 Greenpeace Intl MTD

111 Response

121 Two Bulls MTD

125 Response

126 Two Bulls Reply

130 Montoya MTD

131 Response

135 DCT Order

North Dakota SCT Affirms Conviction of Standing Rock/NoDAPL Protester for Criminal Trespass, Vacates Riot Conviction

Here is the opinion in State v. Bearruner.