New Mexico Supreme Court Determines that Parcel Three of Fort Wingate on the Navajo Nation Reservation is Not Indian Country

Here is the opinion in State v. Steven B.:

NM SCT Opinion

Tenth Circuit to Hear HRI v. EPA En Banc

Here is the order (CA10 Order Granting En Banc Review), the earlier materials (here), the news report from Indianz, and here are the en banc petition stage materials:

HRI En Banc Petition

EPA Opposition to En Banc Petition

Navajo Opposition to En Banc Petition

New Mexico Brief in Support of En Banc Petition

HRI, Inc. v. EPA — Dependent Indian Community Determination

A split panel of the Tenth Circuit concluded that the EPA was within its authority to find that a checkerboarded area of northwestern New Mexico was Indian Country for Safe Drinking Water Act purposes. Here is the opinion.

Here are just some of the many briefs filed in this case (I think I got all the important ones):

hri-appellant-brief

national-mining-assoc-amicus-brief

new-mexico-amicus-brief

navajo-nation-intervenor-brief

epa-brief

hri-reply-brief

interior-land-status-determination