Here (PDF):
TICA/MSU ILPC Call for Papers (Feb. 28, 2018 Deadline)
Here (PDF):
ILPC/TICA Call for Artists — 2018 Conference (Nov. 15-16, 2018) — Feb. 28, 2018 Deadline
Links: Previous art used, 2017 Call for Presentations
If anyone would be interested in providing art for the poster and promotional materials for the TICA-ILPC Conference (coming up October 26-27! We’re going to have CLEs!), we would love to hear about it.
We use a painting and we pay the artist for the use of the work.
We print large posters of the art with the conference text and give them as gifts to attendees and presenters. It is also helpful if we are able to receive a high res scan of the work.
The deadline is Thursday, February 28th, 2018.
Please email indigenous@law.msu.edu with suggestions.
Draft Guidance on the Native American Children’s Safety Act
Here is the Dear Tribal Leader letter, the guidance, and the request for comments on it: Draft Guidance for NACSA
This bill and guidance puts certain requirements on tribes, tribal courts, and tribal social service agencies regarding foster care placements and background checks. There have been concerns about the feasibility of the requirements, primarily related to tribal access to individual state databases for the required checks. Here are the important listening session and comment dates (I have to assume that’s March 16, 2018, not 2017 for the written comment deadline):
Law360 on ICWA and Recent Legal Challenges
Here.
Fort says that a spate of suits involving the Goldwater Institute, while so far unsuccessful in winning a hearing by the U.S. Supreme Court, are diverting tribes’ resources into lawsuits and rehashing old arguments about the constitutionality of the law and the right of tribes to govern their members.
“I don’t think that any of that is to the benefit of American Indian kids or families,” Fort said.
Federal Court Dismisses Challenge to Tribal Court Marriage Dissolution Proceeding [UPDATED]
Here are the materials in LaForge v. Gets Down (D. Mont.):
21 Tribal Judges Motion to Dismiss
Update [6/26/2018]
Ninth Circuit Briefs in Skokomish Indian Tribe v. Forsman
Here:
Lower court materials here.
Ninth Circuit Briefs in Protect Our Communities Foundation v. Loudermilk
Turtle Talk Indian Law News: Criminal Justice
Criminal injustice. Police officers who flocked to Standing Rock to crush Indian protesters are giving each other awards. An all-white jury acquitted of murder a white farmer in Saskatchewan who shot and killed a young aboriginal man with car trouble who was asking for help. Oklahoma appeals Tenth Circuit decision affirming reservation boundaries because it wants to execute a tribal member. Muscogee (Creek) Nation police chief estimates tribe will need at least 200 more police officers as a result of the decision. A new short article for practitioners on practicing criminal law in tribal courts.
Tenth Circuit Affirms Conviction (again) for Mail Fraud against Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah
Here is the unpublished opinion in United States v. Zander.
Prior post here.
Carla Pratt to be Dean of Washburn Law School
Here.
From the law school’s website:
Pratt brings more than 20 years of experience to Washburn Law, including serving as law professor and associate dean for academic affairs at Dickinson Law, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and practicing law as a commercial litigator with the law firm of Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP, Philadelphia, and as deputy attorney general in New Jersey. From 2012 to 2018, she served as an associate justice for the Supreme Court of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Fort Yates, North Dakota, where she heard appeals in cases relating primarily to tribal criminal law, family law, business law, and constitutional law.
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