Arizona Federal Court Dismisses Suit against Salt River’s Great Wolf Lodge Brought by Anti-Masking Assholes

Here are (many of the) materials in Preciado v. Great Wolf Lodge (D. Ariz.):

1 Complaint

23 Motion to Dismiss Tribe Defendants

24 Motion to Dismiss GWL Defendants

27 Motion to Strike 23

29 Motion to Strike 24

32 Reply ISO 24

36 Reply ISO 23

51 DCT Order

Lost mask in Midway Geyser by National Park Service is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0

Arizona Federal Court Holds Business 51% Owned by Navajo Company Not Immune from Title VII Suit

Here are the materials in Tsosie v. NTUA Wireless LLC (D. Ariz.):

Ninth Circuit En Banc Oral Argument in Apache Stronghold v. United States

Briefs here.

En banc stage amicus briefs here.

Amicus Briefs in the Ninth Circuit En Banc Stage of Apache Stronghold v. United States

Here is the fantastic amicus brief on behalf of tribes and tribal orgs written by April Youpee-Roll at Munger and Jason Searle and Beth Wright at NARF:

Here are the other briefs:

Mennonite Amicus Brief

Mormon Church Amicus Brief

Protect the First Amicus Brief

Religious Liberty Scholars Amicus Briefs

Sikh Amicus Brief

Prior post here.

Arizona Federal Court Allows Navajo Suit against Interior over Hopi Trust Land Acquisition

Here are the materials in Navajo Nation v. Dept. of the Interior (D. Ariz.):

31 First Amended Complaint

35 Motion to Dismiss

38 Opposition

41 Reply

This case is on remand after the parties agreed to the vacature of the district court’s dismissal of the suit.

Ninth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of San Carlos Apache Health Care Contract Support Costs Suit

Here is the opinion in San Carlos Apache Tribe v. Beccera.

An excerpt:

A simplified example clarifies this scheme. Assume that a tribe administers a $3 million healthcare program for its members. It costs the tribe $500,000 in administrative costs to do so. IHS therefore will pay the tribe $3.5 million. Additionally, the tribe recovers $1 million for those procedures from outside insurers. It is statutorily required to spend that $1 million on health care as well.
But there is a hole in this statutory scheme. Who pays the CSC for that additional $1 million in health care that the tribe must provide with its third-party revenue? At the heart of this lawsuit is Plaintiff-Appellant San Carlos Apache Tribe’s (“the Tribe”) contention that IHS must cover those additional CSC.

Briefs here.

This guy’s not Apache but he’s happy for them.

Arizona Federal Court Dismisses Navajo Suit Challenging Implementation of Navajo-Hopi Settlement Act of 1974 [updated]

Here are the materials in Navajo Nation v. Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation (D. Ariz.):

Updated materials:

36 First Amended Complaint

43 Motion to Dismiss

Ninth Circuit Orders Chickasaw Nation to Arbitration with Pharmacy Benefits Manager

Here is the opinion in Caremark LLC v. Chickasaw Nation.

Briefs:

Lower court materials here.

Split Ninth Circuit Panel Allows Oak Flat Mining to Proceed

Here is the opinion in Apache Stronghold v. United States.

Briefs here.

Ninth Circuit Reverses Dismissal of Havasupai Students’ Claims against BIE School

Here is the unpublished opinion in Stephen C. v. Bureau of Indian Education:

Briefs here.