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WSJ: “Trump’s Pick to Run Indian Health Service, Cited for Business Savvy, Had Financial Struggles”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

Turtle Talk Indian Law News: Criminal Justice

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Criminal injustice. Police officers who flocked to Standing Rock to crush Indian protesters are giving each other awards. An all-white jury acquitted of murder a white farmer in Saskatchewan who shot and killed a young aboriginal man with car trouble who was asking for help. Oklahoma appeals Tenth Circuit decision affirming reservation boundaries because it wants to execute a tribal member. Muscogee (Creek) Nation police chief estimates tribe will need at least 200 more police officers as a result of the decision. A new short article for practitioners on practicing criminal law in tribal courts.

Carla Pratt to be Dean of Washburn Law School

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

From the law school’s website:

Pratt brings more than 20 years of experience to Washburn Law, including serving as law professor and associate dean for academic affairs at Dickinson Law, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and practicing law as a commercial litigator with the law firm of Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP,  Philadelphia, and as deputy attorney general in New Jersey. From 2012 to 2018, she served as an associate justice for the Supreme Court of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Fort Yates, North Dakota, where she heard appeals in cases relating primarily to tribal criminal law, family law, business law, and constitutional law.

EdWeek Commentary: “The Bureau of Indian Education Is Broken”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

Op Ed by Washington State Rep. J.T. Wilcox on Culverts Case

Ann Tweedy

Here.

NYTs: “Indians in the Hamptons Stake Claim to a Tiny Eel With a Big Payday”

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

DOI Contingency Plans for Operations in the Absence of Appropriations

Sarah M Donnelly

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Elie Mystal Commentary on Trump’s Moves to Undo the Consumer Financial Protection Act

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

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.“

Today’s Supreme Court order list

Ann Tweedy

Here. Highlights are that there has been no decision on cert. in the Culverts case and that the Wampanoag’s First Circuit gaming win will remain in place.