Williams & Cochrane, Rosette, and Quechan Stipulate to Dismiss All of Their Claims [update]

Here is the stipulation in Williams & Cochrane LLP v. Quechan Tribe of the Fort Yuma Reservation (S.D. Cal.):

Prior post here.

Update. Here are recent pleadings from the parties on the substitution of parties that is interesting reading (not all the pleadings are available):

386 Rosette Parties Motion to Substitute [unavailable]

Michigan State Court Order in Suit against Sault Tribe Gaming Entity, Orders $88M (!!) in Damages

Here is the order in JLLJ Development LLC v. Kewadin Casinos Gaming Authority (Mich. Cir. Ct.):

Prior post here.

American Indian Law Top Downloads for 2022 on SSRN


There was a lot of great American Indian law scholarship this past year. Here is a list of the papers focusing on American Indians and Indian tribes that were law-review length. Some really interesting things were excluded, like Greg Ablavsky’s posts defending his scholarship that had TONS of downloads but were not really law review articles, and lots of international material, etc. Here you go:

Tribal Nations and Abortion Access: A Path Forward [371]

Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 79 Posted: 18 Aug 2022

Working Paper Series

Lauren van SchilfgaardeAila HossAnn E. TweedySarah Deer and Stacy Leeds

UCLA School of Law, Indiana University McKinney School of Law, University of South Dakota School of Law, University of Kansas and Arizona State University (ASU) – Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law

Restoring Indian Reservation Status: An Empirical Analysis [278]

Yale Journal on Regulation, Vol. 41, No. 1, Forthcoming, Law & Economics Center at George Mason University Scalia Law School Research Paper Series No. 22-047

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 13 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2022

Working Paper Series

Michael Velchik and Jeffery Zhang

Harvard University and University of Michigan Law School

Five Linguistic Methods for Revitalizing Indigenous Laws [257]

McGill Law Journal, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 17 May 2022 Last Revised: 23 May 2022

Accepted Paper Series

Naiomi Metallic

Dalhousie University – Schulich School of Law

The Indian Child Welfare Act as Reproductive Justice [202]

Boston University Law Review, Vol. 103, Forthcoming 2023

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 01 Sep 2022

Working Paper Series

Neoshia Roemer

University of Idaho – College of Law


The Ascension of Indigenous Cultural Property Law
[184]

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 121, No. 1, 2022

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 29 Nov 2022

Accepted Paper Series

Angela Riley

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

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Minneapolis Fed on Tribal Contracting

The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis has published a report titled, “Federal contracting’s expanding revenue role in Indian Country.”

Screen shot from the report.

Thanks to Elijah Romero,

Eighth Circuit Briefs in Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation v. Dept. of the Interior [opposition to Trump-era approval of non-Indian mining on shores of Lake Sakakawea]

Here:

Lower court materials here.

Screen shot from “Before and After the Flood: Property and Sovereignty at Fort Berthold.

American Indian Law Center/Pre-Law Summer Institute Pre-Law Advisors Training Conference

Register here.

Washington Federal Court Declines to Expand Stillaguamish Fishing Territory

Here are the materials in United States v. Washington, subproceeding 17-03 (W.D. Wash.):

Prior posts here, here, and here.

Ninth Circuit Panel Affirms City of Seattle’s Removal of Sauk-Suiattle Dam Suit to Federal Court, Asks for En Banc Review of Circuit Precedent on Removal . . . Good for procedure nerds, I’m sure.

Here is the opinion in Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe v. City of Seattle.

Briefs here.

Impressionist painting of the removal of a state court complaint to federal court — DALL-E

Ninth Circuit Briefs in Tule Lake Committee v. FAA

Here:

Lower court materials here.