Federal Court Denies Summary Judgment on Funding Issue re: IHS Clinic near Oregon

Here are the materials in Fort McDermitt Paiute & Shoshone Tribe v. Price (D. D.C.):

1 Complaint

14 Tribe Motion for Summary J

15 IHS Motion for Summary J

18 Tribe Reply

20 IHS Reply

24 DCT Order

Federal Court Denies Siletz Intervention in Chinook Suit against US

Here are the new materials in Chinook Indian Nation v. Zinke (W.D. Wash.):

58 Siletz Motion to Intervene

61 Chinook Opposition

73 Siletz Reply

76 DCT Order

Prior posts here.

 

Federal Circuit Rejects Trust Breach Claim for Water by Crow Creek Sioux Tribe

Here is the opinion in Crow Creek Sioux Tribe v. United States.

Briefs:

Crow Creek Opening Brief

US Response Brief

Reply

Lower court materials.

Materials in Dispute over Trust Status of Parcel 5 at Upper Lake Rancheria

Here are the materials in the zombie case, Upper Lake Pomo Association v. Morton (E.D. Cal.) [yes, that’s Rogers Morton and yes, the caption number starts with 75]:

320 Jackson Motion to Enforce

324-1 Diwald Motion to Intervene

325 US Opposition to 320

328 Opposition to 324

332 Jackson Reply in Support of 320

333 Diwald Reply in Support of 324

335 DCT Order

Federal Circuit Reinstates Tucker Act Claim re: Keepseagle Settlement

Here is the opinion in LaBatte v . United States.

Briefs:

LaBatte Brief

US Brief

Reply

Lower court materials here. D.C. Circuit proceedings here.

Ninth Circuit Rejects Gila River Indian Community Reimbursement Claims against VA

Here is the opinion in Gila River Indian Community v. Dept. of Veterans Affairs.

Briefs here.

Norton Sound Health Corp. Sues IHS

Here is the complaint in North Sound Health Corp. v. Azar (D.D.C.):

5-14-2018 NSHC v Azar Complaint (Final as filed)

Muscogee (Creek) Nation v. Azar Complaint

Here:

2 Complaint

Eighth Circuit Decides Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate v. U.S. Corps of Engineers

Here is the opinion. The court’s syllabus:

Action challenging the issuance of Clean Water Act permits allowing a farm owner to dredge and fill portions of Enemy Swim Lake in furtherance of the owner’s activities in building a road over an inlet of the lake; a 2010 letter from the Corps was not a final agency action for purposes of the permit and exemptions determinations as the letter did not affect the legal rights of the farm owner, the Tribe or the Corps; Tribe’s recapture claim under 33 U.S.C. Sec. 1344(f)(2) was a nonjusticiable enforcement action; Tribe’s claims arising from the Corps’s permit and exemption determinations made from 1998 to 2003 were barred by the statute of limitations and the Tribe was not eligible for equitable tolling because it had not diligently pursued its rights; dismissal of the Tribe’s arbitrary-and-capricious challenge to the Corps’s 2009 permit decision rejected as the Corps did not violate its own regulations in issuing the 2009 nationwide-permit determination; the district court did not make a final decision with respect to the lawfulness of the Corps’s regulations enacted pursuant to the National Historic Preservation Act, and the court lacked jurisdiction to review the lawfulness of the regulations.

Briefs.

 

Ruth Hopkins: “Native Tribes Could Lose Federal Recognition of Tribal Sovereignty Under Trump”

From Teen Vogue, here.