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Flandreau Santee Sioux Prevails at Trial on State Tax of Non-Indian Gaming Contractors

October 23, 2020Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the materials in Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe v. Terwilliger (D.S.D.):

176 State Post Trial Brief

177 Tribe Post Trial Brief

186 Opinion and Order

On remand from the Eighth Circuit here.

NYU 25th annual Derrick Bell Lecture on Race in American Society

October 22, 2020Monica Williamson

NYU School of Law and our Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law invite you to the 25th annual Derrick Bell Lecture on Race in American Society. Jasmine Gonzales Rose, Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law and Associate Director for Policy at the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, will virtually present, “Race, Evidence, and Police Violence: Seeking 2020 Vision” on Thursday, November 12, 2020 at 6:00 p.m.

Register here.

WSJ: “Michigan Group Says Archaeological Findings Enough to Halt Enbridge Tunnel Project”

October 22, 2020Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

Seventh Circuit Rejects Fired Oneida Employee’s Civil Rights Claims

October 22, 2020Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the materials in Holtz v. Oneida Airport Hotel Corp.:

Per Curiam Opinion

Holtz Brief

Oneida Brief

Lower court materials here.

Mi’kmaq Lobstermen Attacked

October 21, 2020Matthew L.M. Fletcher

The New York Times has coverage here.

Texas Observer: “F is for Fake — How a dozen possibly fraudulent and forged Indigenous artworks left Texas and ended up on museum walls in Wyoming.”

October 21, 2020Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

Ysleta del Sur Pueblo v. Texas Cert Petition

October 21, 2020February 22, 2021Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

Ysleta Cert Petition

Question presented:

Whether the Restoration Act provides the Pueblo with sovereign authority to regulate non-prohibited gaming activities on its lands (including bingo), as set forth in the plain language of Section 107(b), the Act’s legislative history, and this Court’s holding in California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians, 480 U.S. 202 (1987), or whether the Fifth Circuit’s decision affirming Ysleta I correctly subjects the Pueblo to all Texas gaming regulations.

Lower court materials here.

Update:

Texas Brief in Opposition