D.C. Circuit Briefs in Stand Up for California! v. Dept. of Interior [Wilton Rancheria]

Here are the briefs:

Stand Up Opening Brief

Interior Brief

Wilton Rancheria Brief

Reply

Lower court materials here.

Oral argument audio here.

Interior Acquires Off-Rez Land [non-gaming] in Trust for Grand Traverse Band

Here.

Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Asks Federal Court to Protect Its Reservation

Here are the materials filed in Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe v. Zinke (D.D.C.):

News Coverage of the Disestablishment of the Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation

HuffPo. [with link to Trump’s bigoted testimony against the tribe in 1993]

Mashpee Enterprise.

Boston Globe.

MassLive.

Federal Court Holds Interior May Not Take Land into Trust for Gaming Purposes for Keetoowah

Here is the opinion in Cherokee Nation v. Bernhardt (N.D. Okla.):

Prior post here.

Eastern Band Cherokee Sues Interior over Catawba Trust Land Decision [Updated]

Here is the complaint in Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians v. Dept. of the Interior (D.D.C.):

1-complaint-4.pdf

2 Motion for TRO

12 Catawba Opposition

13 Federal Opposition

17 EBCI Reply

And here is the Interior decision:

interior-fee-to-trust-decision.pdf

Ninth Circuit Rejects Upper Lake Pomo Citizens’ Play for Trust Land

Here is the unpublished opinion in Jackson v. United States.

Briefs:

opening-brief.pdf

us-brief.pdf

intervenors-brief.pdf

reply-brief.pdf

Lower court materials here.

Solictor’s Procedure for Determining Eligibility for Land-into-Trust under the First Definition of “Indian” in Section 19 of the Indian Reorganization Act

Here:

solicitors_procedures_for_determining_eligibility_for_land_into_trust_under_category_1.pdf

Interior Withdraws Solicitor’s Office M Opinion on the Meaning of IRA’s “Under Federal Jurisdiction” Language

Here is M-37055 (pdf), withdrawing M-37029.

Sault Tribe Prevails over Interior over Interpretation of Mandatory Trust Land Acquisition Statute

Here is the opinion in Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians v. Bernhardt (D.D.C.):

opinion-1.pdf

Case tag here.

26indianclcommndec538.pdf