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Here are current materials in Crosby Lodge v. NIGC (D. Nev.), a challenge to NIGC authority to require that 60 percent of on-reservation gaming revenues of non-Indian gaming entities go to tribes (25 CFR 522.10(c)):

Crosby Lodge Motion for Summary Judgment

NIGC Cross-Motion for Summary Judgment

Earlier materials here.

Keith Harper for the Tenth Circuit Drawing Intense Opposition

May 23, 2010Matthew L.M. Fletcher2 Comments

From the Tulsa World via Pechanga:

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is considering a Washington, D.C., attorney and former adviser to the president’s campaign to fill an appeals court vacancy created by the resignation of veteran Judge Robert Henry of Oklahoma, the Tulsa World has learned.

If officially nominated for what is viewed as an Oklahoma seat on the court, Keith Harper is expected to draw strong opposition from key Oklahoma Democrats and Republicans.

The White House move to vet Harper for the slot on the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is being described as an “insult” to the state and even “stupid.”

Opposition appears to be coalescing around the fact that Harper is not from Oklahoma and the way the White House has excluded certain key players from the process to fill the post.

Republican U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe vowed to do whatever needs to be done to block the nomination, if it ever gets to the Senate.

Inhofe’s options range from the so-called “blue slip” process, which allows senators to make their wishes known privately on judicial nominations and can be used to kill a nomination, to an outright hold.

“It is stupid,” he said. “If they are serious about doing something with this guy, there were ways they could have done it that would have been much more palatable to us.”

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Complaint in Suit Challenging Arizona’s SB 1070 (Immigration Law)

May 23, 2010Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here: Friendly House v. Whiting

Of note, paragraph 16:

Plaintiff Tonatierra Community Development Institute (“Tonatierra”) is a nonprofit community-based organization in Phoenix, Arizona that advocates for the cultural, educational, and economic development needs of the indigenous community in Arizona. Some of the families it works with are members of indigenous American Indian tribes who fear that they will be stopped and questioned under SB 1070 if they are not carrying tribal identification cards.