Nez Perce Tribe Sues over Approval of Open Pit Gold Mine

Here is the complaint in Nez Perce Tribe v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service (D. Idaho):

Idaho Federal Court Dismisses FTCA Claim Brought against CdA Tribal Police

Here are relevant materials in Baker v. Axton (D. Idaho):

1 Notice of Removal

1-8 Amended Complaint

5-1 Motion to Dismiss

14 Opposition to Motion for Remand

15 Opposition to Motion to Dismiss

16 Reply ISO Motion for Remand

19 DCT Order

Construction Company Sues Sho-Ban Attorneys for Breach of a Non-Disclosure Agreement

Here is the complaint in Vanir Construction Management v. Gray (D. Idaho):

Related case.

Sho-Ban Intervenes in US Action against Union Pacific

Here is the complaint in intervention in United States v. Union Pacific Railroad (D. Idaho):

Idaho Federal Court Dismisses Suit against Nez Perce Tribal Judiciary

Here are the materials in Souther v. Nez Perce Tribe Judicial Services (D. Idaho):

1 Complaint

4-1 Motion to Dismiss

8 Response

9 Reply

11 DCT Order

Northwestern Shoshone Treaty Suit Prevails against Idaho in Ninth Circuit

Here is the opinion in Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation v. Wooten.

Briefs here.

Law.

Idaho Federal Court Remands Contract Action to Tribal Court

Here is the order in Shoshone-Bannock Tribes v. Vanir Construction Management Inc. (D. Idaho):

Briefs here.

Ninth Circuit Briefs in Constitutional Challenge to MCA as Unjustified Racial Classification

Here are the briefs in United States v. Gordon:

Ok, so there’s only that brief so far. Also, since the defendant stipulated to tribal membership with Nez Perce, I doubt this has legs, but it’s the kind of full-throated attack on the Indian status cases arising under the Indian country criminal jurisdiction statutes that we should expect more regularly — i.e., the kind that relies a LOT on single-authored concurrences and dissents from a certain SCT Justice that tends to rely on discredited historical research.

Here’s the lower court judgment (nothing terribly helpful here since the defendant stipulated to tribal membership):

Miigwetch, Onion people!

Shoshone-Bannock Tribes v. Vanir Construction Management, Inc. Materials (so far)

Here are the materials so far in Shoshone-Bannock Tribes v. Vanir Construction Management, Inc.

Sho-Ban Tribes Prevail (in part) in Challenge to BLM Land Transfer to Polluter

Here are the materials in Shoshone-Bannock Tribes v. Daniel-Davis (D. Idaho):