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The Commission was charged with developing recommendations to the Secretary of the Interior and the Attorney General to improve intergovernmental coordination and establish best practices for state, Tribal, and federal LE to combat the epidemic of missing persons, murder, and trafficking of AI/AN persons. Specifically, the Commission was directed to develop recommendations on six key topic areas. The Commission organized itself into six Subcommittees to align with these six topic areas as follows:

Subcommittee 1: Law Enforcement & Investigative Resources — Identifying/Responding to Missing, Murdered, and Trafficked Persons

Subcommittee 2: Policies & Programs – Reporting and Collecting Data on Missing, Murdered, and Trafficked Persons

Subcommittee 3: Recruitment & Retention of Tribal & Bureau of Indian Affairs Law Enforcement

Subcommittee 4: Coordinating Resources – Criminal Jurisdiction, Prosecution, Information Sharing on Tribal-State-Federal Missing, Murdered, and Trafficked Persons Investigations

Subcommittee 5: Victim and Family Resources and Services

Subcommittee 6: Other Necessary Legislative & Administrative Changes

First Circuit Affirms Interior Decision to Acquire Trust Land for Mashpee Wampanoag

November 1, 2023Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the opinion in Littlefield v. Dept. of the Interior.

Briefs and other materials here,

Texas Federal Court Dismisses Title VII Suit against Alaska Regional Corp.

October 30, 2023Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the materials in Balli v. Akima Global Services LLC (S.D. Tex.):

1 Complaint.pdf Download

5 Motion to Dismiss.pdf Download

8 Response.pdf Download

9 Reply.pdf Download

14 Magistrate Report.pdf Download

15 Objections.pdf Download

16 Response.pdf Download

17 DCT Order.pdf Download

Seneca-Cayuga Sued for Political Banishments

October 26, 2023Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the materials so far in Channing v. Seneca-Cayuga Nation (N.D. Okla.):

2 Complaint

8-1 Bill Fisher Dec

Wyoming SCT Issues Mixed Opinion in Northern Arapaho Tribe v. Baldwin, Crocker, and Rudd

October 24, 2023Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

An excerpt:

BCR did not comply with the procedural requirements of Rule 11, and the district court erred when it imposed Rule 11 sanctions on the Tribe. The district court’s order imposing Rule 11 sanctions is reversed, and this matter is remanded to the district court with direction that the order imposing sanctions be vacated. We affirm the district court’s order granting summary judgment on the accounting claim because the Tribe could not bring a cause of action for an accounting under W.R.P.C. 1.15(e), and the Tribe failed to show its conversion and civil theft claim was not an adequate remedy at law. We affirm the jury’s verdict after finding the Tribe failed to show the verdict would have been more favorable to the Tribe if the racially charged evidence and argument had not been admitted.