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Prior posts here.
Federal Circuit Reinstates Tucker Act Claim re: Keepseagle Settlement
Here is the opinion in LaBatte v . United States.
Briefs:
Sad Day: Aretha Franklin
Here.
Udall Requests Kavanaugh Records on Native American Issues
From the press release:
Udall Requests Kavanaugh Records on Native American Issues
Seeks all records pertaining to Kavanaugh’s involvement with Native American issues during tenure as Staff Secretary and White House Counsel
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.), vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, formally requested all records pertaining to Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s involvement with Native American issues during his tenure as White House Staff Secretary and as White House Counsel.
In a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Udall asked Grassley to turn over all records under his control pertaining to Kavanaugh’s work on Indian Affairs issues. Udall also asked that Grassley request all records from the National Archives regarding Kavanaugh’s time as Staff Secretary and White House Counsel related to Native American matters.
“Decisions made by the Supreme Court have a significant impact on nearly all aspects of the everyday lives of Native Americans,” Udall wrote. “In the past few years alone, the Supreme Court has ruled on cases that further defined the contours of the United States’ government-to-government relationship with Indian Tribes, including: the extent to which an Indian Tribe’s treaty with the United States protects its subsistence practices from state intrusion; the scope of an Indian Tribe’s sovereign immunity; and the scope and extent of a Tribal member’s parental rights over a Native American child.”
“The Supreme Court’s influence is particularly acute in Indian Country, given the United States’ treaty and trust responsibility,” Udall continued. “So that members of this Committee—and the entire Senate—may adequately consider Judge Kavanaugh’s views on Indian Affairs issues, I respectfully request that you make available to me and my staff all records that pertain to Judge Kavanaugh’s involvement with Native American affairs while serving at the White House as Staff Secretary and as White House Counsel.”
The full text of the letter is available here.
Ninth Circuit Rejects Gila River Indian Community Reimbursement Claims against VA
Here is the opinion in Gila River Indian Community v. Dept. of Veterans Affairs.
Briefs here.
Tenth Circuit Dismisses Objectors’ Appeal of Pojoaque Valley Water Settlement
Here is the opinion in State of New Mexico v. Aamodt.
Briefs:
Answering Brief for the United States of America
Appellant’s Consolidated Reply Brief to Appellees’ and Appellees in Intervention’s Briefs
Appellant’s Supplemental Brief Pursuant to the Court’s April 5, 2018 Order
Joint Answer Brief of Defendants-Appellees Santa Fe County and City of Santa Fe
Response Brief of Appellee the Rio De Tesuque Association, Inc.
Eighth Circuit Briefs in Brakebill v. Jaeger
Sherry Treppa on Tribal Role in California Wildfire Response
Here is “Emergencies highlight critical tribal role.”
Background Materials in Washington State Department of Licensing v. Cougar Den, Inc.
Supreme Court
–Merits Stage
Sacred Ground Legal Services Amicus Brief
–Cert Stage
supplemental brief for respondent in response to brief of us solicitor general
Washington Supreme Court
Here is the opinion in Cougar Den Inc. v. Washington State Dept. of Licensing.
Briefs:
92289-6 Appellant’s Opening Brief
New Scholarship on Tribal Jurisdiction to Protect Native Women and Children
Sarah Deer & Mary Kathryn Nagle have published Return to Worcester: Dollar General and the Restoration of Tribal Jurisdiction to Protect Native Women and Children in the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender.
An excerpt:
The Supreme Court’s recent 4-4 tie-vote in Dollar General Corp. v. Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians signals a distinctive shift away from the incoherent modern framework created by Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe—a framework that stripped Tribal Nations of their inherent authority to protect Native women from non-Indian perpetrated violence. With four Justices voting for—and not against—tribal jurisdiction, Dollar General signals a return to the Court’s 1832 decision in Worcester v. Georgia, wherein the Court affirmed the exclusive authority of Tribal Nations to exercise criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians who willingly enter tribal lands. For Native women—and the Tribal Nations that seek to protect them—the Court’s 2016 result in Dollar General signals a significant victory.
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