Here are the materials in United States v. Marquez (D.N.M.):
New Mexico Federal Court Rejects Constitutional Challenge to Major Crimes Act
Major Crimes Act
Ninth Circuit Affirms MCA Domestic Violence Conviction Where Victim Was Unavailable to Testify Due to Defendant’s Actions
Fifth Circuit Affirms Major Crimes Act Conviction Where Federal Prosecutor Once Repped Defendant’s Dad in Choctaw Tribal Court
Minnesota Federal Court Rejects Constitutional Challenges to Indian Country Criminal Jurisdiction
Here are the relevant materials in United States v. Johnson (D. Minn.):
Oklahoma Federal Court Dismisses Indictment of Non-Indian Confederate in Indian Country Crime
Here are the relevant materials in United States v. Brown (N.D. Okla.):
Tenth Circuit Affirms Indian Country DV Conviction [COVID Zoom Trial]
Split Tenth Circuit Vacates Major Crimes Act Murder Conviction and Orders New Trial on Self-Defense
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):
Eighth Circuit Affirms Indian Country Drug Conviction over Potentially Interesting Jurisdictional Objections
Here is the opinion in United States v. Milk.
Briefs:
An excerpt from the opinion:
Milk, who is Native American and an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, contends that the district court lacked jurisdiction because (1) he was convicted of crimes that are not enumerated under the Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1153,4 and (2) under the General Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. § 1152, the alleged unlawful acts in this case occurred on the Pine Ridge Reservation and only involved American Indian people. But Milk’s arguments are foreclosed by precedent.
Oklahoma Federal Court Denies Discovery into Allegation of Collusion between Federal and State Prosecutors in Indian Country Murder Case
Here are materials in United States v. Buzzard (N.D. Okla.):
Turtle Talk 
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