Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Pottawatomi Seek Corporate Counsel for Economic Development Arm

Here:

MBPI LLC LEGAL RFP

Big Sandy Rancheria Moves to Returned Smokes Seized by Feds

Here is the motion in In Re 365,380 Ea 640 Boxes of Cigarettes worth 568,000.00 (Big Sandy Tobacco Redistribution) (C.D. Cal.):

1 Motion for Return of Seized Property

Candy Smokes

Otoe-Missouria Tribal Chairman Brings Civil Rights Action against Connecticut Dept. of Banking

Here is the complaint in Shotton v. Pitkin (W.D. Okla.):

1 Complaint

An excerpt:

Plaintiff brings this action as a result of unlawful enforcement actions taken by Defendants against Plaintiff and Defendants’ entry of a state administrative order imposing a civil penalty of $700,000 against Plaintiff in his individual capacity and unlawfully restraining his conduct without due process of law and in violation of his individual right to immunity as a tribal official.

Our post on a related suit in Connecticut Superior Court action is here.

Diné CARE Prevails in NEPA Challenge to Navajo Mine Expansion

Here are the materials in  Diné Citizens against Ruining Our Environment v. United States Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (D. Colo.):

48 Diné CARE Opening Brief

53 OSMRE Response

54 BHP Navajo Response

55 Diné CARE Reply

79 DCT Order

News coverage here.

Posts on prior motion to dismiss and motion to intervene.

Ninth Circuit Briefs in Consumer Financial Protection Board v. Great Plains Lending

Here:

Great Plains Lending Opening Brief

CFPB Answer Brief

Great Plains Lending Reply Brief

Reply Brief

Lower court materials here.

Cornell NALSA to Host Tribal Economic Development Summit This Saturday (To be Live Streamed)

Here:

Cornell Tribal Economic Development Summit Poster

Here is the agenda (PDF):

Summit Agenda-1_Page_1 Summit Agenda-1_Page_2

Here is the live stream link for the morning panel sessions:
http://law.webcast.video.cornell.edu/Mediasite/Play/4c30d7814aec4710a6f84e9dc33dfc851d

And here is the link for the Keynote address:
http://law.webcast.video.cornell.edu/Mediasite/Play/e5f613f211524a7abaaa8401574bca081d

ASU’s Tribal Government e-Commerce Meeting Today

Agenda here.

Cornell NALSA Tribal Economic Development Action Summit

Here:

2-28 NALSA_Summit

Agenda here (PDF):

Summit Tentative Agenda - February 4th_Page_1 Summit Tentative Agenda - February 4th_Page_2

Otoe-Missouria Tribal Lender Appeals Connecticut Dept. of Banking Fines

Here are the materials in Great Plains Lending LLC v. Connecticut Dept. of Banking (Conn. Super.):

Complaint

Motion for TRO

News coverage here: “Oklahoma tribe appeals $1.5 million in payday lending fines.”

Ninth Circuit Briefs in Yakama/King Mountain Tax Dispute

Here are the materials in Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Indian Nation v. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau:

Yakama Opening Brief

US Appellee Brief

State Amicus Brief

Reply Brief

Oral argument video.

Lower court materials in King Mountain Tobacco Co. v. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (E.D. Wash.) are here.