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.

SCOTUS Denies Cert in West Flagler v. Haaland

Here is today’s order list. Justice Jackson is ethical and recused herself. Justice Kavanaugh would have granted the petition.

Cert petition and link to lower court materials here.

Federal Brief in Opposition to Cert in West Flagler v. Haaland

Here:

The petition is here.

D.C. Circuit Briefs in Challenge to LNG Rule

Here are the materials in Sierra Club v. Dept. of Transportation:

West Flagler v. Haaland Cert Petition

Here:

Questions presented:

1. Whether IGRA authorizes the approval of a compact that purports to allow for an online sports gambling monopoly throughout the state and off Indian lands.

2. Whether an IGRA compact violates the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act if it provides for internet sports betting that is unlawful where many of the bets are placed.

3. Whether the Secretary’s approval of a tribalstate compact violates equal protection principles where it provides a specific tribe with a monopoly on online sports gaming off tribal lands, while state law makes that conduct a felony for everyone else.

Lower court materials here.

SCOTUS Denies Stay in West Flagler Suit

Here are the materials in West Flagler Associates Ltd. v. Haaland:

Application for Stay

Federal Response

Order Denying Stay + Kavanaugh Statement

Seminole Letter

Lower court materials here.

Sault Tribe Trust Land Acquisition Appeal [updated 1/12/24]

Here are the briefs (only one so far) in Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians v. Haaland (D.C. Cir.):

Sault Tribe Reply

Lower court materials here.

D.C. Circuit Briefs in Tanner-Brown v. Haaland

Here:

Lower court briefs here.

D.C. Circuit Rejects Challenge to Seminole Gaming Compact

Here is the opinion in West Flagler Associates Ltd. v. Haaland.

Briefs are here.

D.C. Circuit Allows North Dakota to Intervene in Missouri Riverbed Suit between MHA Nation and Interior Dept.

Here are the materials in MHA Nation v. Dept. of the Interior:

Opinion