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Ninth Circuit Briefs in SPRAWLDEF v. Guidiville Rancheria of California [Rule 19]

June 18, 2020June 18, 2020Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

Guidiville Opening Brief

SPRAWLDEF Answer Brief

Lower court materials here.

Courtney Liss: “Want to change the law? Change law school.”

June 17, 2020Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

An excerpt:

At my school, it took dozens of students elevating each other’s voices and alumni’s threat to withhold thousands of dollars in donations before the school considered breaking the precedent. It took each of us sharing heartbreaking personal narratives, demanding the public and the administration look into our wounds directly for administrators to be great lawyers who could understand the purpose of the old precedent (to help foster a diverse and inclusive educational environment) and create new methods of achieving that purpose, including saying publicly that Black Lives Matter and sharing the Black Law Student Association’s demands with students and alumni to drive accountability.

We have scoured the web. Here are some of the latest materials related to Indian Law. Find all of the latest updates at narf.org/nill/bulletins/

Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2020.html

Solonex, LLC v. Bernhardt (Oil and Gas Leasing)
Winnemucca Indian Colony v. United States (Tribal Elections)
Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians v. Mnuchin (CARES Act)
Lingenfelter v. Liptak (RLUIPA)
Water Works Board of the City of Birmingham v. U.S. Bank National Association (Fraud)

U.S. Legislation – 116th Congress Bulletin
https://narf.org/nill/bulletins/legislation/116_uslegislation.html

H.R.7173 – To protect the status of lands held in trust for the benefit of federally recognized Indian Tribes, and for other purposes.
S.3937 – A bill to amend section 330C of the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize special programs for Indians for providing services for the prevention and treatment of diabetes, and for other purposes.
S.3948 – A bill to amend the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children Act to extend the deadline for a report by the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children, and for other purposes.

Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin (contact us if you need help finding a copy of an article)
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/lawreviews/2020.html

Indigenizing professional responsibility.

News Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.html
This week, in brief:

Ruling cancels energy lease in the Badger-Two Medicine area
A hospital’s secret coronavirus policy separated Native American mothers from their newborns
How the Yurok Tribe is reclaiming the Klamath River
‘It’s so important for our young people to vote’
COVID-19 exposes inadequate funding levels at Indian Health Service
Museum of Indian Arts and Culture puts curriculum on tribes online
Man sentenced for stealing Ancestral Puebloan artifacts
Iron Range board tables Fond du Lac water treatment funding over band’s ‘anti-mining’ stances
Navajo leaders lay out plan to spend relief funds, shield elderly from ‘this monster’
UC Berkeley has nearly 500,000 tribal artifacts and remains. It isn’t giving them back quickly
In Apache, we say ‘Ndąą Diłhił’í bi’idąą da’ilįį’ (Black Lives Matter)