Procopio’s Native American Law Practice group seeks summer law clerks for its paid eight to ten week summer internship program. More information available here.
Application requires a sample blog post, resume, transcript, and cover letter; due by October 30, 2015.
Yesterday, the Department of Justice awarded over $97 million to 206 federally recognized Tribes that had applied to the Department’s Coordinated Tribal Assistance Solicitation. The program has awarded more than $620 million since it launched in 2010. $30.5 million have been granted to Michigan Tribes in that time. Its purpose is to improve public safety and victim services.
Link to DOJ awards list here.
Link to DOJ statement here.
Founded in 1970, the Native American Rights Fund (“NARF”) is the oldest and largest nonprofit law firm dedicated to asserting and defending the rights of Indian tribes, organizations, and individuals nationwide. NARF’s practice is concentrated in five key areas: the preservation of tribal existence; the protection of tribal natural resources; the promotion of Native American human rights; the accountability of governments to Native Americans; and the development of Indian law and educating the public about Indian rights, laws, and issues.
Summer Clerkships
NARF is currently seeking candidates for its Summer 2016 Clerkships! Each year, NARF conducts a nation-wide search for law students to participate in its Law Clerk Program. Positions are available in all three of NARF’s offices: Anchorage, AK; Boulder, CO; and Washington, D.C.
Here is the advertisement. The deadline to apply is September 25, 2015.
Here. From the tribe’s site:
Opinion here.
Court documents previously posted here.
There is no constitutional tort in play. There is no underlying federal or state law criminal prohibition. There is nothing wrong in principle with filing a land in trust application. To the contrary, such a filing would normally be protected First Amendment activity. The only thing the filing allegedly violated here was a bilateral promise – a contract. Extending Ex parte Young to such a theory would open federal courts to routine breach of contract claims that can and ordinarily should be resolved in the state Court of Claims (when a state contract is at issue), or whatever forum the parties choose for themselves in the case of a tribal contract. Here, the parties did negotiate expressly over both the issues of sovereign immunity and dispute resolution. They concluded in their Compact that neither side was agreeing to waive sovereign immunity, and negotiation and arbitration would be the preferred methods of dealing with disputes.
We don’t post every time a document is filed in the current federal ICWA cases (EDVA, AZ, MN, NDOK), but will be posting updates as orders are filed or briefing is completed on an issue, as usual.
However, many filings for all four cases are being updated regularly here.
Here are the materials in Glacier Electric Cooperative, Inc. v. Gervais (D. Mont.):
The original order is here.
Here.
American Indian Law Journal Call for Papers
The American Indian Law Journal, published by the Seattle University School of Law, is currently accepting submissions for potential publication in the Spring 2015 issue. The American Indian Law Journal serves as a vital online resource providing high quality articles on issues relevant to Indian law practitioners and scholars across the country. The deadline for submissions for the Spring issue is November 1, 2015. The editing process for publication begins soon after this date.
If you are interested in submitting an article to the journal, please e-mail chug@seattleu.edu
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