Navajo Nation Doc: “Rural Matters — Coronavirus and the Navajo Nation”

From the New England Journal of Medicine, here.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.

NYTs Op-Ed on Navajo and COVID

From Wahleah Johns, “A Life on and Off the Navajo Nation: The reservation has one of the country’s highest rates of infection.”

Tribal Amicus Brief in California v. Texas [ACA Challenge in Supreme Court]

Here:

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Op-Ed on Tribal Health Checkpoints in South Dakota

Here is “Alexander Mallory: Tribes have full legal authority to use checkpoints to safeguard health.”

Previous post here.

NAICJA Webinar on DV and PPOs During COVID

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Webinar Title: 
Administering Justice in Tribal Courts During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Rapid Response Webinar Series – Domestic Violence Issues (including Emergency Protective Orders)

  • Date & Time: Thursday, May 14, 2020 from 1:00 pm-2:30 PM MST (90) minutes.
  • Webinar Narrative: The National American Indian Court Judges Association presents a webinar virtual panel & discussion on domestic violence issues and tribal court responses issuing emergency protective orders and court hearings. Join and listen to Judge Shannon Prescott, Judge Joseph Wiseman, and Ms. Dawn R. Stover, discuss handling of domestic violence cases and court orders.
  • Register Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Tt06TP0nQsmP3khQlqwZqg
  • Attached PDF (hyperlinked)
  • Attached JPG (not hyperlinked) to include within the body of the message.
  • Panelists: 
    Hon. Shannon Prescott, District Judge, Muscogee Creek Nation

Hon. Joseph Wiseman, Chief Justice, Round Valley Indian Tribes, Tule River Indian Tribe

Dawn R. Stover, Executive Director, Alliance of Tribal Coalitions to End Violence

  1. Moderator: Nikki Borchardt Campbell, NAICJA Executive Director

Bay Mills Indian Community Continues Fight Against Line 5-Petition to Intervene in MI Public Service Commission Proceedings

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2020-05-11 U-20763 Petition to Intevene by Bay Mills (Cover ltr+POS)

2020-05-13 U-20763 Comments of Bay Mills Indian Community + Attachments A-F (cover ltr +POS)

Morning Ireland: “Navajo Nation thanks Ireland for Covid 19 donations”

Here, featuring Navajo AG Doreen McPaul.

You can visit the Navajo donation page here nndoh.org/donate.html.

FB Page here: https://www.facebook.com/Navajo-Nation-Covid-19-Relief-Fund-105664894478899/

Original thank you video: https://www.facebook.com/105664894478899/videos/282938079772471/

 

 

NYTs: “Tribal Nations Face Most Severe Crisis in Decades as the Coronavirus Closes Casinos”

Here.

Federal Court Finds Treasury Delay in Disbursing CARES Act Funds Not Egregious Enough to Merit an Order to Disburse Immediately

Here is the order in Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians v. Mnuchin (D.D.C.):

29 DCT Order

Prior posts here.

Federal Court Decision on FOIA Request for Miwok Tribe Membership Records

Here are the materials in Reyes v. Dept. of the Interior (S.D. Cal.):

1 Complaint

29-1 US Motion for Summary J

32 Opposition

35 Reply

43 DCT Order