Federal Court Stays Mille Lacs Reservation Boundaries Case Pending Interlocutory Appeal by County Officials

Here are the materials in Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians v. County of Mille Lacs (D. Minn.):

225 Tribe Motion for Summary Judgment

241 County Motion for Summary Judgment

250 State of Minnesota Amicus Brief

265-1 US Amicus Brief

269 Tribe Reply

271 County Reply

286 Tribe Supplemental Brief

288 County Response to 286

290 DCT Order

Prior post here.

Brackeen 1 Hour CLE Next Week

Registration Link: https://www.twgtrainings.com/brackeen-decision

Cornell/Yale Indigenous Nations and Climate Change Conference, April 21-23

Register here.

D.C. Circuit Rejects Tribal Contract Support Costs Claim re: Insurance Money

Here is the opinion in Swinomish Indian Tribal Community v. Becerra.

Briefs:

Swinomish Brief

Tribal Amicus Brief

Federal Answer Brief

Swinomish Reply

Lower court materials here.

 

ICWA Educational Zoom Conference

This Thursday, April 15, 2021, the University of South Dakota is hosting an ICWA Educational Zoom Conference. For more details, please click here:

Update: Please click the following Zoom link to join!

https://usd.zoom.us/j/92454118611

Does Brackeen v. Haaland Apply:

This document is primarily for non-lawyers, so while you can @ me about details, there is a reason this document doesn’t get into the nitty gritty question of federal court jurisdiction in state court trials (please note the work the word “may” is doing). We hope this will be helpful for tribal social workers, their state counterparts, reporters, and maybe some lawyers who are trying to understand the implications of a 325 page decision.

CFP for ILPC/TICA Conference

Are you an in-house attorney addressing one of these issues?

-Self Governance

-Consultation Practices

-Amicus Briefs

-Insight from Current Judicial Clerks

-Traditional Knowledge in the Law

-ICWA

-Hot Topics

Each year, the Indigenous Law Conference has 8 panels plus a keynote speaker. Current TICA members interested in presenting on the above topics, with a focus on the tribal in-house practice of law, are invited to submit their individual presentation proposals. ILPC/TICA will form panels. Proposals must be submitted by May 1, 2021. The Conference will be hosted November 4-5, 2021 with pre-conference activities on November 3. For more information, click the buttons below.

Submission Form

Conference Website

Prisoner Complaint against Pokagon Tribal Police Dismissed

Here are the materials in Hartsell v. Schaaf (N.D. Ind.):

10 Amended Complaint

15 DCT Order

Federal Suit against MHA Nation-Affiliated Lending Business Stayed Pending Fourth Circuit Decision in Hengle v. Treppa

Here are the materials in Manago v. Cane Bay Partners VII LLLP (D. Md.):

40 Amended Complaint

73-1 Motion to Stay

76 Opposition

82 DCT Order Granting Motion for Stay

The briefs in Hengle v. Treppa are here.

Kristen Carpenter’s Book Review of McNally’s “Defending the Sacred” in the Harvard Law Review

Kristen A. Carpenter has published “Living The Sacred: Indigenous Peoples and Religious Freedom” in the Harvard Law Review, reviewing Michael McNally’s “Defend the Sacred: Native American Religious Freedom Beyond the First Amendment.”