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Eastern Band Cherokee SCT Issues Opinion on Sovereign Immunity
Here is the opinion in Campos v. Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians:

South Dakota SCT Declines to Grant Full Faith and Credit to Sisseton-Wahpeton Tribal Court Divorce Decree
Getches, Wilkinson, and Williams’ Cases and Materials in Federal Indian Law 2024-25 Update
California COA Decision on the Disqualification of California Indian Legal Services Attorneys in Quiet Title Action
D.C. Federal Court Dismisses Freedmen Descendants’ $90M Suit against Feds and Cherokee Nation
Here are the materials in Hinton v. Cherokee Nation (D.D.C.):
16-1 Cherokee Nation Motion to Dismiss
28 Cherokee Nation Reply ISO 16

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Loses Trial in Federal Trust Breach Action Despite Federal Inaction that “dilutes a unique community and leading it one step closer towards decay”
Here are the updated materials in Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe v. United States (Fed. Cl.):
Prior post here.

This paragraph is brutal:
The evidence presented to the Court at trial was “both overwhelming and extremely underwhelming.” (Tr. Court, 1426:20). Witness testimony was poignant at times, on one occasion moving some in the courtroom audience to tears. Ultimately, however, the Tribe failed to shoulder its burden of proof; and despite the Court’s serious misgivings about the treatment of the Tribe, the Tribe did not show that the United States’ failure to repair the crumbling Building violated trust obligations or constituted to a taking. Even if the Tribe met the elements of a breach of trust or takings claim, its proof of damages was entirely unconvincing, dependent on construction costs in the city limits of Chicago and rental values derived from cursory internet searches. Accordingly, the United States is entitled to judgment.
Michigan Federal Court Asks Parties to Focus on Merits Rather than Discovery Squabbles in Tribes Suit against Insurance Company over Medicare-Like Rates
Here are new materials in Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (E.D. Mich.):
295 SCIT Third Motion for Default Judgment
Most recent post here.

D.C. Federal Court Declines to Overturn Newland Opinion in California Miwok Tribe Membership Dispute
Here are the materials in California Valley Miwok Tribe v. Haaland (D.D.C.):

Update on Osage Suit against Interior over Mineral Estate Regulation
Here are materials in Osage Nation v. Dept. of the Interior (D.D.C.):



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