Oneida Employee Civil Rights Suit Dismissed by Federal Court

Here are the materials in Holtz v. Oneida Airport Hotel Corp. (E.D. Wis.):

1 Notice of Removal

1-3 Amended Complaint

8 Airport Hotel Motion to Dismiss

12 Tribe Motion to Dismiss

25 DCT Order

Materials in Modoc Nation Suit against Former Business Partner, Softek

Here are the materials (so far) in Modoc Nation v. Shah (N.D. Okla.):

29 Amended Complaint

75 Motion to Dismiss Complaint

77 Motion to Dismiss Counterclaims

82 Second Amended Counterclaims

93 Counterclaim Defendants MSJ

97 Response to 93

100 Response to 77

102 Tribe Response to 75

Patent Trial and Appeal Board Issues Three Decisions in Disputes between Microsoft and St. Regis Mohawk Tribe

Here:

IPR2018-01594 FD

IPR2018-01601 Final Written Decision

IPR2018-01605 Final Written Decision

Briefs in one of the cases:

IPR2018-01594 – POs Preliminary Response

IPR2018-01594 Reply to Patent Owner_s Preliminary Response 2.28.19 FINAL

IPR2018-01594 – Patent Owners Sur-Reply

HCN: “Casino closures in Indian Country hit core tribal services”

Here.

An excerpt:

When Bryan Newland was 16, he got a job as a dishwasher at his tribe’s casino restaurant. In college, he carried golf bags for patrons at the casino course. Now the chairman of Bay Mills Indian Community, Newland was forced to announce on Wednesday that the tribal government could no longer pay the 400 people employed at Bay Mills casinos, golf courses, and other tribal businesses and departments closed due to COVID-19.

“I understand that many of you are angry, frustrated and scared,” Newland (Ojibwe) told tribal members in a Facebook video address on Wednesday. “You’re not alone in those feelings. The Small Business Administration has abandoned us, and it is failing Indian Country right now.” 

News Coverage of $10B Indian Country Stimulus

Here, from Underscore.

Sixth Circuit Briefs in Sovereign Lending Case Involving Chippewa Cree Tribe

Here are the briefs in Swiger v. Rosette:

NAFOA Amicus Brief

Reply

Lower court materials in Swiger v. Rosette (E.D. Mich.):

Havasupai Nation Suspends Tourism over COVID 19

Here:

Federal Court Holds Hualapai Business Immune From Suit

Here are the materials in Zhang v. Grand Canyon Resort Corp. (C.D. Cal.):

57-first-amended-complaint.pdf

60-1-motion-to-dismiss.pdf

60-3-declaration.pdf

67-opposition.pdf

74-reply.pdf

76-dct-order.pdf

Arizona SCT Holds Tribal Company Did Not Establish Status as Subordinate Entity and Was Not Entitled to Immunity

Here is the opinion in Hwal’Bay Ba J Enterprises v. Jantzen:

hwalbay-v.-jantzen-ariz-2020.pdf

An excerpt:

An Indian tribe’s “subordinate economic organization” serves as an “arm of the tribe” and therefore shares its sovereign immunity. This tort case affords us an opportunity to identify factors courts should examine to decide whether a tribal entity serves in that capacity. After doing so, we conclude the tribal entity here did not prove it is a subordinate economic organization entitled to share the tribe’s immunity, and the superior court therefore did not err by denying the entity’s motion to dismiss.

Briefs are here.

Federal Court Certifies Tribal Lending Case for Interlocutory Appeal

Here are materials in Hengle v. Asner (E.D. Va.):