Here is the opinion in WPX Energy Williston LLC v. Jones.
Briefs here.
District of North Dakota
Eighth Circuit Shows Against Why FTCA’s Discretionary Function Exception Should Be Canned
Here is the cursory, bloodless opinion in Mound v. United States.
Briefs here. Lower court materials here.
An excerpt:
In 2014, the Tribe identified a culvert—a structure that channels water under a road—as a potential maintenance project. In 2018, based on an engineering assessment, the Tribe decided to replace the culvert. Because its existing contract did not authorize funding for the project, the Tribe sought a new contract with the BIA. Before the new contract was finalized, heavy rains collapsed the culvert, leaving a large gap in the road. Four cars drove into the gap and plunged into the water. Trudy Peterson and James Vander Wal were swept downstream and died. Evan Thompson and Steven Willard suffered serious injuries.
North Dakota Federal Court Allows Challenge to Tribal TERO Suit to Proceed against TERO Officer
Here are the materials in Dakota Metal Fabrication v. Parisien (D.N.D.):
Litigation in North Dakota Federal Court over Turtle Mountain TERO Power to Assess Nonmember Business on Trust Lands
Here are the materials so far in Hanson v. Parisien (D.N.D.):
Eighth Circuit Briefs in Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation v. Dept. of the Interior [opposition to Trump-era approval of non-Indian mining on shores of Lake Sakakawea]
Here:
Lower court materials here.
Eighth Circuit Briefs in Mound v. United States
Eighth Circuit Briefs in WPX Energy Williston LLC v. Fettig
North Dakota DCT Dismisses Contract Claim against MHA Nation
Here is the order in Bird Industries Inc. v. Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation (D.S.D.):
Prior post with briefs here.
North Dakota Federal Court Holds that Exposing Nonmember Conducting Business on Indian Land to a Suit Enforcing a Contract-Based Smoking Ban to which the Nonmember Agreed to Creates an Irreparable Harm
Color me skeptical about the state of the Eighth Circuit’s tribal inherent powers jurisprudence if a tribal citizen who leases their land to nonmembers, who then violate the terms of that lease, cannot bring suit in tribal court to enforce the lease. Seems to me this holding is in direct conflict with the Supreme Court’s decisions ordering tribal exhaustion.
Here are the materials in WPX Energy Williston LLC v. Fettig (D.N.D.):
22 Motion to Dismiss Counterclaim
24-12 MHA Nation Trial Court Decision
27 Motion for Preliminary Injunction
North Dakota Federal Court Dismisses FTCA Claim arising from BIA Road Maintenance Negligence under “Discretionary Function Exception”
Here are the materials in Mound v. United States (D.N.D.):
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