Arizona COA Again Affirms County Property Tax on Nonmember Utility on Tribal Lands

Here is the opinion in South Point Energy Center LLC v. Arizona Dept. of Revenue:

Prior post here. Case tag here (lots of posts).

UM NALSA/WLSA Event This Friday — “Missing: Violence Against Women in Indian Country”

Ninth Circuit Materials on Whether Federal Whistleblower Protection Statute Applies to ISDEAA Funds

Here are the briefs in Kent v. LaCounte:

Kent Opening Brief

Government Brief

Ora argument video here (be ready for discussion about Möbius strips and concentric circles in describing the federal statutory structure):

UM STARS Anti-Colonial Week Talk Today on Anishinaabe Law

New M-Opinion on Alaska Tribal Jurisdiction over Allotments

Here:

Tribal SCT Briefs in Citizenship Board of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation v. Grayson

Here:

More briefs TK.

Lower court decision here.

Jeffrey Gibson

Oklahoma District Court Decision Using Bracker Preemption Test to Validate State Criminal Jurisdiction

Here are the materials in State v. Long (McIntosh County D. Ct.):

Raqib Shaw

SCOTUS Cert Stage Materials in Turtle Mountain Ojibwe Efforts to Uncover Republican Legislators’ Racial Animus

Here are the cert stage materials in Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v. North Dakota Legislative Assembly:

Cert Petition

Republican Governors Amicus Brief in Opposition

Questions presented:

1. Should this Court vacate the Eighth Circuit’s decision under United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (1950)? 2. Are state legislators absolutely immune from civil discovery, including from producing documents and communications that involved or were shared with third parties, or is the state legislative privilege a qualified one, based on principles of comity, that yields where important federal interests are at stake?

Lower court materials here.

Kekek Stark on Tribal Court Exhaustion

Kekek Jason Stark has published “Tribal Court Jurisdiction and the Exhausting Nature of Federal Court Interference” in the University of Cincinnati Law Review. PDF

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Andrea Carlson