D.C. Circuit Holds Latrice Tanner-Brown Has Standing to Sue for a Trust Accounting, but Harvest Institute Freedmen Federation Does Not

Here is the opinion in Tanner-Brown v. Haaland.

Briefs and lower court materials here.

Bay Mills 6th Annual Noojimo’iwewin VAWA & ICWA Training: Registration Open

Registration is open for the 6th Annual Noojimo’iwewin: The VAWA and ICWA Training hosted by Bay Mills Indian Community, July 31-August 2, 2024.

Hosted in person with a virtual option, this year’s training theme is Healing Together. Book your stay at the Bay Mills Resort and Casino in Brimley, MI by July 15. Learn more and see the agenda here. CLE and social work CU credits are pending submission and approval.

Nebraska Federal Court Dismisses Santee Sioux Suit over Seizure of IHS Funds

Here are the materials in Santee Sioux Nation v. Tso (D. Neb.):

Complaint here.

Ninth Circuit Decides Rincon Mushroom Company of America Inc. v. Mazzetti

Here is the unpublished opinion:

Lower court materials here.

Harvard Civil Rights–Civil Liberties Law Review Symposium on Indian Law

Here:

Symposium—Indigenizing Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Chief Justice Angela R. Riley and Professor Suzette Malveaux in Conversation at the Eleventh Annual John Paul Stevens Lecture: The Third Sovereign: Tribal Courts and Indian Country Justice
by Angela R. Riley & Suzette Malveaux

Responsible Governance and Tribal Customary Rights
by Kekek Jason Stark

Access to Justice in the Shadow of Colonialism
by Kirsten Matoy Carlson

Where’s Mr. Postman? The Struggles of Voting by Mail in Indian Country
by Torey Dolan

Native Nation Resistance to the Machinations of Settler Colonial Democracy
by Nazune Menka

Federal Circuit Rejects Chemehuevi Trust Breach Claims over Parker Dam

Here is the opinion in Chemehuevi Indian Tribe v. United States.

Briefs:

Lower court materials here.

Utah Federal Court Dismisses Ute Tribe Effort to Force State to Sell Land Back to the Tribe

Here are the materials in Ute Indian Tribe v. Ure (D. Utah):

Washington Federal Court Orders BNSF to Pay Nearly $400M in Trespass Damages to Swinomish

Here is the order in Swinomish Tribal Community v. BNSF (W.D. Wash.):

Miigwetch to Jack Fiander for this image.

Prior post here.

Sixth Circuit Remands Michigan’s Suit against Enbridge to State Court [this is a good thing]

Here is the opinion in Nessel v. Enbridge Energy LP.

Briefs here.

The Halluci-Nation concurs.