In Quinn v. Leavitt, the District of South Dakota found in favor of the IHS in a sex discrimination claim against the Indian Health Service.
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Southern Ute v. Leavitt Materials
Southern Ute Tribe, with NCAI as amicus, is appealing a district court order allowing the IHS to set the tribe’s self-determination contract award at zero. The case is pending in the Tenth Circuit. Here are the materials:
[Southern Ute Reply brief not filed yet]
2008 Federally Recognized Tribes List
The 2008 list of federally recognized tribes is here: Federal Register Notice
“Slumber[ing] on its Rights”: Menominee Tribe v. US
This case regards a claim for contract support costs from IHS. The district court rejected the claim, in part, because the tribe “‘slumber[ed]’ on its rights.” Here are the materials:
Indian Frauds: US v Refert — Impersonating an Indian
Here are the materials in US v. Refert, an Eighth Circuit case affirming the conviction of a woman convicted of impersonating an Indian for purposes of receiving health care.
NYTs: “Running from Despair” — Profile of Wings of America
From the NYTs:
SANTA FE, N.M. — On a cold Saturday morning last month, 16-year-old Chantel Hunt ran across a highway onto a gravel road where the snow under her shoes packed into washboard ripples. She ran around a towering red rock butte, past two old mattresses dumped on the roadside, and into the shadow of a mesa she sometimes runs on top of.
Hunt, a high school junior and a resident of the Navajo Nation, was on a short training run for the national cross-country championships being held Saturday in San Diego. Her team, Wings of America, has risen to prominence with an unlikely collection of athletes. It is a group of American Indians from reservations around the country, and a Wings team has won a boys or a girls national title 20 times since first attending a championship meet in 1988.
NYTs Editorial on Indian Health Care Bill
From the NYTs:
Vetoing History’s Responsibility
President Bush’s threat to veto a bill intended to improve health care for the nation’s American Indians is both cruel and grossly unfair. Five years ago, the United States Commission on Civil Rights examined the government’s centuries-old treaty obligations for the welfare of Native Americans and found Washington spending 50 percent less per capita on their health care than is devoted to felons in prison and the poor on Medicaid.
Bush to Veto Indian Health Care Bill
From the New York Times:
Bush Threatens Veto of Indian Health Care Bill
The Bush administration threatened to veto Senate legislation designed to improve health care on Indian reservations, objecting to provisions involving pay and benefits for workers on some projects. The legislation would increase screening and mental health programs at the Indian Health Service, improve tribe members’ access to Medicare and Medicaid, and lead to new construction and modernization of health clinics on reservations. The bill would also require that the Davis Bacon Act, under which contractors and subcontractors must pay workers locally prevailing wages and fringe benefits, be applied to some of the projects. The administration said in a statement that the labor provision would violate longstanding administration policy.
Interestingly, NPR reported this morning that the Bush Administration’s reasoning was that the bill looses restrictions on proving citizenship in order to qualify for benefits. Guess they can’t keep their story straight….
Susanville Rancheria v. Leavitt — IHS Billing Case
Ninth Circuit Decides IHS Reimbursement Case — Updated
Here are the materials for Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System v. McClellan, decided by the Ninth Circuit.
Here are the materials:
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