Download per capita attorney details here.
Download tribal court law clerk details here.
Pascua Yaqui Tribe’s Testimony Submitted to Senate Indian Affairs Committee
How the Seminole Tribe came to rock the Hard Rock empire
Founded in 1971 as memorabilia-filled cafe hangouts for cool-seeking baby boomers, Orlando-based Hard Rock International was purchased by the tribe in 2007 from British gaming and leisure company Rank Group Plc. For the Seminoles, the nearly $1 billion investment — one of the largest purchases ever by an American Indian tribe — was a play at going global.
Read more: HERE
Nooksack Tribe Denies Business Licenses to Two Law Firms
National Indian Law Library Bulletin (5/19/2016)
Here:
The National Indian Law Library added new content to the Indian Law Bulletins on 5/19/16.
U.S. Federal Trial Courts Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/dct/2016dct.html
National Wildlife Federation v. National Marine Fisheries Service (Endangered Species Act – Fisheries)
News Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.html
In the Intergovernmental section, we feature an article about the efforts of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs to move bills quickly through Congress.
U.S. Regulatory Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/regulatory/2016fr.html
We feature a rule of the Environmental Protection Agency on a revised interpretation of the Clean Water Act tribal provision.
Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/lawreviews/2016lr.html
We added these articles:
The Washington Redskins’ deflating hope: the Lanham Act survives the First Amendment challenge.
Gas, roads, and glory: North Dakot a and MHA nation’s struggle over flaring regulation.
U.S. Legislation Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/legislation/114_uslegislation.html
We added two new bills:
S.2950: A bill to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to receive, process, and pay certain claims relating to the Gold King Mine spill.
H.R.4238: To amend the Department of Energy Organization Act and the Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act of 1976 to modernize terms relating to minorities.
Federal Court Allows Amended Suit against Seneca Holdings in Post-Hurricane Sandy Construction Dispute
Here are the materials in Private Solutions Inc v. SCMC LLC (D. N.J.):
53-1 Plaintiff Motion to Amend complaint
An excerpt:
As Breakthrough makes clear, determining whether an economic entity such as Seneca Holdings benefits from tribal sovereign immunity requires a fact-intensive inquiry. The Court recognizes that Seneca Holdings has produced its Second Amended Charter, which discusses the economic entity’s formation, purpose, structure, and relationship to the Seneca Nation. [Docket Entry No. 55-1]. The Charter makes clear that Seneca Holdings was organized under tribal law and was created for the purpose of facilitating the Tribe’s economic interests. The Charter is highly probative of several of the Breakthrough factors; however, it is not enough to definitively establish that Seneca Holdings shares tribal sovereign immunity with the Seneca Nation of Indians. As such, more discovery is required to appropriately consider the issue. Consequently, at this juncture, Seneca Holdings purported tribal sovereign immunity does not render PSI’s proposed amendments futile.
Ninth Circuit Dismisses Suit against Tribal Insurers
Here are the materials in Allied World Assurance Company:
CA9 unpublished memorandum
NYTs: “A Heated Linguistic Debate: What Makes ‘Redskins’ a Slur?”
Nebraska State Bar Indian Law Section CLE
The Nebraska State Bar Indian Law Section will be hosting an Indian Law CLE that will focus on Indian Law 101 information for jurisdiction, ICWA, and tribal court practice.
The CLE will be webcast, so other attorneys from other states can register and gain CLE credit.
Update in Massive Suit against Plain Green, Owned by Chippewa Cree at Rocky Boy’s
Here are selected materials in Gringras v Rosette (D. Vt.):
Turtle Talk 
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