Minnesota Court of Appeals

Minnesota COA Restores Leech Lake Ojibwe Member’s Challenge to Itasca County’s Authority to Prosecute Fireworks Sales

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the unpublished opinion in Irv’s Boomin’ Fireworks LLC v. Muhar:

Unpublished Opinion

Earlier case here.

Tribal Petition to Stop Enbridge Line 3

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

Honor the Earth + White Earth + Red Lake Petition

Minnesota COA Holds that State Courts Have Jurisdiction over Sexual Harassment Complaint against Honor the Earth

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the unpublished opinion in Campbell v. Honor the Earth:

opinion.pdf

Split Minnesota COA Rejects Treaty Rights Defense in Prosecution for Fishing on Gull Lake by Fond du Lac Member

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the unpublished opinion in State v. Northrup:

state-v-northrup.pdf

Split Minnesota COA Panel Affirms Authority of Tribal Police Office Outside Reservation Boundaries Acting under Cross-Dep Agreement

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the opinion in State v. Bellcourt:

Bellcourt Opinion

Non-Indian Reckless Driver Arrested by Tribal Police Doesn’t Like It, but Still Loses

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the unpublished opinion in State v. Ziegler (Minn. Ct. App.):

Opinion

Split Minnesota COA Rejects Environmental Impact Statement on Enbridge Line 3 Replacement Project

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the opinion in In re Applications of Enbridge Energy (Minn. Ct. App.):

Minnesota COA Opinion

Minnesota COA Confirms Tribal Police Have Power to Detain and Deliver Non-Indians

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the opinion in State v. Thompson.

The court’s syllabus:

If a tribal police officer suspects a person who is not an Indian of violating a Minnesota criminal statute on an Indian reservation, and if the victim is not an Indian or there is no victim, the tribal police officer lawfully may detain the person and deliver him or her to state law-enforcement authorities for further investigation and prosecution.

Minnesota COA Rejects Name Change of Lake to Original Indigenous Name…

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

… in favor of keeping it named after an architect of the Indian Removal Act and slaveowner.

Here is the opinion in Save Lake Calhoun v. Strommen.

An excerpt from news coverage (here):

Signs around the lake have already been changed to reflect the Dakota name. In 2015, before any legal name change happened, the parks board did add Bde Maka Ska to the signs around the lake. The decision on what they’ll read going forward won’t be made for 30 more days.

“John C. Calhoun has a legacy that not too many people in this city want to honor anymore,” public historian Dr. Kate Beane said. “He created the Indian Removal Act, and that removal act led to the displacement and death of thousands of indigenous people, including the Cherokee Trail of Tears. This is not somebody who’s legacy we want in our city, and I think that the park board, the mayor, the city and the state and federal have agreed that a process was followed.”

Update: See the Save Lake Calhoun site.

Minnesota COA Holds Red Lake Ojibwe Convictions Not Eligible for Interjurisdictional Jail Credit

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the opinion in State v. Roy:

state-v-roy.pdf