California Trial Court Dismisses Suit against Pauma Valley Indian Health Project

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are available materials in Turner v. Indian Health Council Inc. (Cal. Super.):

Complaint.PDFDownload
Turner – Order to Dismiss.pdfDownload

Fletcher on TraverseCityist Podcast on Michigan History

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

What do you remember learning in United States or Michigan History classes?  Matthew Fletcher explains the timeline of events that occurred after the signing of the Declaration of Independence up to the present time. Fletcher is the Harry Burns Hutchins Collegiate Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. He teaches and writes in the areas of federal Indian law, American Indian tribal law, Anishinaabe legal and political philosophy, constitutional law, federal courts, and legal ethics. He also sits as the Chief Justice of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, the Porch Band of Creek Indians and the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. Matthew is also the author of The Eagle Returns, The Legal History of the Grand Travers Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. This interview was recorded on July 17, 2024.

Episode 16 is sponsored by the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians Tribal Council.

Two New Papers by Dylan Hedden-Nicely

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Journal Water:  Water Governance in an Era of Climate Change: A Model to Assess the Shifting Irrigation Demand and Its Effect on Water Management in the Western United States

https://doi.org/10.3390/w16141963

Harvard Environmental Law Review: Rebalancing Winters: Indigenous Water Rights and Climate Change in the Western United States

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4932971

D.C. Circuit Briefs in Hill v. DOI [Challenge to Crow Water Rights Settlement]

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

Hill Opening Brief

Federal Answer Brief

Lower court materials here.

South Dakota Federal Court Dismisses Challenge to Sisseton Wahpeton Criminal Jurisdiction

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the materials in LaBatte v. Gangle (D.S.D.):

1 Complaint

19 Amended Complaint

20 Motion for PI

25 SWO Opposition to Motion for PI

27 SWO Motion to Dismiss

30 Defendant’s Consolidated Reply

32 DCT Order

Blast from the Past: Arlinda Locklear on New York Indian Land Claims in 2011 Lecture at the Heard Museum

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Tenth Circuit Affirms Criminal Conviction over Indian Status Challenge

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the opinion in United States v. Laskey.

Briefs here.

Montana Law Review and the Public Land and Resources Law Review Call For Papers

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

MLR and PLRLR Joint Edition Call for Papers.pdfDownload

Ohio Federal Court Transfers Insurance Company’s Claims against Interior over Lower Brule Loan Guarantee to Federal Claims Court

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the updated materials in Great American Life Insurance Company v. United States Department of the Interior (S.D. Ohio):

46 DCT Order

49 US Motion to Dismiss

50 Great American Cross-Motion to Transfer

52 US Reply ISO 49

54 Great American Reply ISO 50

55 DCT Order

Prior posts here.

Way back in the day, Human Rights Watch issued a rare, tribe-facing report on the line of transactions that led to this case, which shows no signs of nearing a conclusion. The then-tribal government response is here.