Environmental

Federal Court Rejects Trappers/Hunters Effort to Dismiss Challenge to Federal Implementation of Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Rule 19!)

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the materials in Wildearth Guardians v. United States Fish & Wildlife Service (D. Mont.):

75 Motion to Dismiss

79 Federal Response

80 Wildearth Guardians Response

84 Reply

94 DCT Order

Eastern Shoshone Tribe v. Wyoming Cert Petition

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

Cert Petition

Question presented:

Whether Congress clearly intended in 1905 to di- minish the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming, home to the Eastern Shoshone Tribe.

Lower court materials here.

UPDATE:

indian law profs amicus

New Scholarship on DAPL and Tribal Jurisdiction

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Andrew Rome has published “Black Snake on the Periphery: The Dakota Access Pipeline and Tribal Jurisdictional Sovereignty” in the North Dakota Law Review.

Federal Court Allows Navajo Gold King Mine Spill Claims against Operator to Continue

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the relevant materials in State of New Mexico v. EPA (D.N.M.):

102 er motion to dismiss navajo complaint

115 navajo response

120 er reply

123 dct on er motion to dismiss

Ninth Circuit Briefs in Protect Our Communities Foundation v. Loudermilk

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

Protect Our Communities Opening Brief

Federal Answer Brief

Tribe Answer Brief

Reply

Oral argument video here.

Lower court materials here.

Latest News Regarding Back Forty & the Menominee Tribe’s Federal Lawsuit

Sarah M Donnelly

Here is the press release, and here are links to an article and the complaint they filed today.

Menominee Tribes Sues EPA/Army Corps over Back 40 Mine

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the complaint in Menominee Indian Tribe v. EPA (E.D. Wis.):

Complaint

SCOTUS Denies Cert in Alaska v. Ross (ESA seal listing)

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is today’s order list.

Cert stage materials here.

Administration Moves for Transfer to Utah in Bears Ears

Sarah M Donnelly1 Comment

Here is the motion in Hopi Tribe et al v. Donald J. Trump et al, 17-cv-02590 (D.D.C.):

21 – Federal Defendants’ Motion to Transfer Case to the District of Utah

Link: Case Archive

NYTs News Profile of Uranium Mining at Bears Ears

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is “Uranium Miners Pushed Hard for a Comeback. They Got Their Wish.“