Supreme Court
–Merits Stage
Sacred Ground Legal Services Amicus Brief
–Cert Stage
supplemental brief for respondent in response to brief of us solicitor general
Washington Supreme Court
Here is the opinion in Cougar Den Inc. v. Washington State Dept. of Licensing.
Briefs:
92289-6 Appellant’s Opening Brief
Here are the materials in Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. ThinkFinance (E.D. La.):
Here:
Prior posts here.
Here are the materials in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Think Finance (D. Mont.):
Robert J. Miller has posted “Sovereign Resilience: Reviving Private Sector Economic Institutions in Indian Country.” Here is the abstract:
Indian country in the United States is incredibly poor. Indian nations desperately need to develop reservation economic activities. Most tribal governments, however, are primarily focused on developing tribally owned businesses. This article argues for Indian peoples and governments to revive and regenerate their centuries’ old tribal institutions that promoted, supported, and protected private sector economic development and economies. Indian country and Indian peoples need to develop economic enterprises and activities in their homelands to ensure their sustainability by creating living wage jobs and adequate housing. Developing private sector economies, in addition to tribal public sector economies, will help create economic diversification on reservations, new businesses and jobs, protect from economic downturns, slow the “brain drain” that all rural areas suffer, and promote more spending which will help Indian country benefit from the “multiplier effect” as more and more money is spent, and re-spent, on reservations.
Here are the materials in Williams v. Big Picture Loans LLC (E.D. Va.):
23 big picture mtd jurisdiction
Update (4/17/19) — Here are materials in a related matter, Weddle v. Williams (D. Colo.):
12 Response to Motion to Quash
17 Reply in Support of Motion to Quash
18 Response to Motion to Transfer
19 Third Party Motion to Intervene
20 Notice of Third Party Joinder
22 Reply in Support of Motion to Transfer
24 Response to Motion to Intervene
27 DCT Order Granting Motion to Transfer
Update (5/6/19) — Here are updated materials in Big Picture:
Troy Eid has published Beyond Dakota Access Pipeline: Energy Development and the
Imperative for Meaningful Tribal Consultation in the Denver University Law Review.
Here is the opinion in St. Regis Mohawk Tribe v. Mylan Pharmaceuticals:
Briefs here.
Here is the pleading captioned United States v. 2015 Dodge Ram 350 Truck (D. Neb.):
Update — here is the amended complaint now captioned United States v. 2005 Freightliner M2106 Box Truck (D. Neb.):
Here. An excerpt:
The Navajo Nation’s plan for Remington was novel: It intended to shift the company away from its consumer business, including curtailing the sale of the AR-15-style weapons frequently used in mass shootings, to focus on police and defense contracts.
The tribe planned to use profits from those businesses to invest in research and development of advanced “smart guns” — those with fingerprint or other technology intended to prevent anyone but the gun’s owner from using the weapon. Smart guns have so far failed to make much headway at the major gun manufacturers, which have faced pressure from groups like the National Rifle Association.
It’s not clear that the tribe’s proposal would have worked, of course. But the Navajo Nation would have had an advantage in sales for police and military contracts. Not only must a certain percentage of government business go to minority-owned companies, but the Native American Incentive Act also confers certain other advantages, according to the American Bar Association.
The only guns the Navajo Nation planned to sell to consumers were long guns like rifles and shotguns used by hunters.
“Navajo is a community of veterans and people of the land,” the tribe’s lawyer, Drew Ryce, said in an email. “We are indifferent to the AR-15 and happy to leave that business behind.”
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