Tenth Circuit Rules in Favor of Jemez Pueblo’s Aboriginal Rights Suit re: Valles Caldera

Here is the opinion in Pueblo of Jemez v. United States.

An excerpt:

In our circuit, both before and after Jemez I, the Jemez Pueblo could lose its established aboriginal title to Banco Bonito only if its title had been extinguished or abandoned. And the district court concluded that neither of those conditions had occurred. So in accordance with longstanding Supreme Court precedent, and by the district court’s findings, the Jemez Pueblo still has aboriginal title to Banco Bonito.

Links to briefs and lower court materials here.

New Mexico Federal Court Dismisses Most of Federal Criminal Charges against Navajo Citizen for Selling Hawk and Eagle Feathers

Here are the materials in United States v. Skeet (D.N.M.):

Not a bird

New Mexico Federal Court Enjoins State Court Tort Claim against Pojoaque Pueblo, Choosing Federal Precedent over State Precedent

Here are the materials in Pueblo of Pojoaque v. Wilson (D.N.M.):

Complaint here.

New Mexico Federal Court Rejects Criminal Convict’s Request for Downward Variance in Sentence; Challenge to Major Crimes Act as Racial Classification

Here are materials in United States v. Jojola (D.N.M.):

Of course, if SCOTUS goes the wrong way in Brackeen, this case and hundreds will go much differently.

New Mexico Federal Court Allows FTCA Claim over Navajo Irrigation Project Damage

Here are the materials (So far) in Navajo Agricultural Products Industries v. United States (D.N.M.):

New Mexico Federal Court Grants Funding Injunction to Fort Defiance Indian Hospital against IHS

Here are the materials in Fort Defiance Indian Hospital Board v. Beccera (D.N.M.):