Federal Court Orders Shingle Springs Miwok into Arbitration with Labor Union

Here are the materials in Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians v. Unite Here International Union (E.D. Cal) (No. 16-1057):

9 Motion to Dismiss

13 Tribe Opposition

14 Reply

18 DCT Order

And here are the materials in Unite Here International Union v. Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians (E.D. Cal.) (No. 16-384):

20 Motion for Judgment on Pleadings

21 Tribe Opposition

22 Reply

25 DCT Order

New Scholarship on the Sixth Circuit’s NLRB Tribal Jurisdiction Cases

Riley Plumer has published “Overriding Tribal Sovereignty by Applying the National Labor Relations Act to Indian Tribes inSoaring Eagle Casino and Resort v. National Labor Relations Board” in Law & Inequality.

 

Ninth Circuit Briefs in Casino Pauma v. NLRB

Here:

Opening Brief

CNIGA Amicus Brief

Fort Peck Amicus Brief

Appellate Commissioner Order

Casino Pauma Corrected Opening Brief

NLRB Answer Brief

UNITE HERE Brief

Reply Brief

Administrative materials:

Administrative Law Judges Decision 6-4-2015

Board Decision 3-31-2015

Board Decision 12-3-2015

NLRB Judge Decision 7-18-2016

Casino Pauma Brief in Support of Exceptions 8-4-2014

Answering Brief to Exceptions 9-5-2014

Prior posts here and here.

Cert Stage Briefs Complete in LRB & Soaring Eagle v. NLRB Petitions

Here they are for the LRB v. NLRB petition:

Little River Petition and Appendix COMBINED

US Cert Opposition

Little River Reply

Here they are for Soaring Eagle v. NLRB:

Saginaw Cert Petition and Appendix- Filed

US Cert Opposition

Saginaw Cert Reply FINAL

All the briefs are available here at the background materials page for these two cases.

These materials have been submitted for the June 23 Conference at the Supreme Court (docket page here and here).

United States Opposes Cert in NLRB Cases

Here are those briefs:

15-1024 Little River Band

15-1034 Soaring Eagle

Cert petitions are here and here.

Tribal NLRB Background Materials

Here are the materials relevant to Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Tribal Government v. NLRB.

Supreme Court cert stage briefs

Little River Petition and Appendix COMBINED

USET Amicus Brief

Final CO-UMUT Amicus Cert Petition – Saginaw Chippewa and LRB

National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation

CNIGA Amicus

NCAI Amicus

Michigan Amicus Brief

US Cert Opposition

Little River Reply

Sixth Circuit En Banc Stage Continue reading

CNIGA Amicus Brief in Saginaw Chippewa v. NLRB

Here:

CNIGA Amicus Brief

United South and Eastern Tribes Amicus Brief in Support of the Tribal Petitioners against NLRB

Here is the USET brief in Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe v. NLRB:

USET Amicus in Support of Tribal Petitions

This one is substantially the same as USET’s brief in the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Tribal Government v. NLRB case.

Ute Mountain Ute & State of Colorado File Joint Amicus Brief in Support of Tribal Cert Petitions in NLRB Cases

Here is the brief:

Final CO-UMUT Amicus Cert Petition – Saginaw Chippewa and LRB

Saginaw Chippewa v. NLRB Cert Petition

Here:

Saginaw Cert Petition and Appendix- Filed

Questions presented:

For more than sixty years, the National Labor Relations Board correctly declined to exercise jurisdiction over tribal operations on tribal lands. But in recent years, the Board has belatedly asserted the extraordinary power to regulate the on-reservation activities of sovereign Indian tribes, precipitating a three-way circuit split in the process. Nothing in the text of the National Labor Relations Act changed in that interval; it contains no language granting the Board authority over Indian tribes. Nor has the language of various Indian treaties, like those between the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe and the United States, changed; they continue to recognize the Tribe’s authority to exclude non-members. And despite the Board’s complete lack of expertise in Indian law, the Board now dictates that some tribal operations are subject to the NLRA and others are not based on its evaluation of the centrality of certain functions to tribal sovereignty and subtle differences in treaty language. 

This case presents two questions, both of which have divided the courts of appeals:

(1) Does the National Labor Relations Act abrogate the inherent sovereignty of Indian tribes and thus apply to tribal operations on Indian lands? 

(2) Does the National Labor Relations Act abrogate the treaty-protected rights of Indian tribes to make their own laws and establish the rules under which they permit outsiders to enter Indian lands?

Lower court materials here.