Oklahoma SCT Declares Gov. Stitt’s Gaming Compacts with UKB and Kialegee are Invalid

Here is the opinion in Treat v. Stitt.

Briefs:

Petitioner’s Brief

Response Brief

Petitioner’s Reply Brief

An excerpt:

Petitioners, the Honorable Greg Treat, Senate President Pro Tempore, and the Honorable Charles McCall, Speaker of the House, request the Court to assume original jurisdiction to declare that the new tribal gaming compacts between the State and the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians and between the State and the Kialegee Tribal Town are invalid under Oklahoma law. The Court assumes original jurisdiction. Okla. Const. art. VII, § 4. The Court invokes its publici juris doctrine to assume original jurisdiction here as Petitioners have presented this Court with an issue of public interest in urgent need of judicial determination. Fent v. Contingency Review Bd.2007 OK 27, ¶ 11, 163 P.3d 512, 521. The Court grants the declaratory relief sought by Petitioners, as the Executive branch did not validly enter into the new tribal gaming compacts with the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians and the Kialegee Tribal Town. Ethics Comm’n of State of Okla. v. Cullison1993 OK 37, ¶ 4, 850 P.2d 1069, 1072.

Club One Casino v. Bernhardt Cert Petition [North Fork Rancheria]

Here is the petition in Club One Casino Inc. v. Bernhardt:

Club One Petition for Writ of Certiorari

Appendix

Lower court materials here and here.

Update:

Brief in Opposition

Reply

Update in Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians v. Dept. of the Interior

Here are updated materials in Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians v. Dept. of the Interior (D.D.C.):

34 DCt Order on Supplementing Admin Record

37 Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation Motion for Reconsideration

38 Opposition

39 Reply

40 DCT Order Denying Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation Motion

Prior post here.

Bay Mills Indian Community & State of Michigan Reach Settlement on Vanderbilt Casino

Here is a news article summarizing the settlement.

The last decision in this long-running dispute is here.

Flandreau Santee Sioux Prevails at Trial on State Tax of Non-Indian Gaming Contractors

Here are the materials in Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe v. Terwilliger (D.S.D.):

176 State Post Trial Brief

177 Tribe Post Trial Brief

186 Opinion and Order

On remand from the Eighth Circuit here.

Federal Court Rejects Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation Intervention in Scotts Valley Band Pomo Indian Lands Case

Here are the new materials in Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians v. Dept. of the Interior (D.D.C.):

17-1 Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation Motion to Intervene

18 Scotts Valley Opposition

19 Reply

33 DCT Order

Complaint posted here.

New Mexico COA Certifies Tribal Gaming/Immunity Cases to New Mexico SCT

Here is the order in Sipp v. Buffalo Thunder Inc.:

36924 and 38636 Certification Order (FINAL)

The question certified:

[W]hether the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA), 25 U.S.C. §§ 2701-2721 (2018), permits tribes and states to contract in Tribal-State Class III Gaming Compacts to shift jurisdiction over certain matters to state courts.

Connecticut, Pequot, and Mohegan Allowed to Intervene and Assert Rule 19 Defense in MGM Challenge to Gaming Compacts

Here are the materials so far in MGM Resorts Global Development LLC v. Dept. of Interior (D.D.C.):

16 Interior Motion to Dismiss

24-1 State & Tribal Sovereigns Motion to Intervene

27 MGM Response to Motion to Dismiss

33 Reply in Support of Motion to Dismiss

34 MGM Opposition to Motion to Intervene

36 Reply in Support of Motion to Intervene

38 DCT Order Granting Motion to Intervene

We posted the complaint here.

Ninth Circuit Rejects Challenge to Jamul Indian Village Gaming Ops

Here is the opinion in Jamul Action Committee v. Simermeyer.

Briefs here.