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Federal Trade Commission Sues Auto Dealership for Deceptive Trade Practices Near Navajo Reservation

August 2, 2018August 2, 2018Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the complaint in FTC v. Tate’s Auto (D. Ariz.):

ftc v. tate’s auto

New Yorker: “The Extreme Cyclists of the Navajo Nation”

July 31, 2018Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here.

NYTs Profile of Navajo Nation’s Bid to Purchase Recently-Bankrupt Remington Gun Company to Bring Biz to the Reservation (and force the company to invest in smart gun tech)

July 17, 2018Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment

Here. An excerpt:

The Navajo Nation’s plan for Remington was novel: It intended to shift the company away from its consumer business, including curtailing the sale of the AR-15-style weapons frequently used in mass shootings, to focus on police and defense contracts.

The tribe planned to use profits from those businesses to invest in research and development of advanced “smart guns” — those with fingerprint or other technology intended to prevent anyone but the gun’s owner from using the weapon. Smart guns have so far failed to make much headway at the major gun manufacturers, which have faced pressure from groups like the National Rifle Association.

It’s not clear that the tribe’s proposal would have worked, of course. But the Navajo Nation would have had an advantage in sales for police and military contracts. Not only must a certain percentage of government business go to minority-owned companies, but the Native American Incentive Act also confers certain other advantages, according to the American Bar Association.

The only guns the Navajo Nation planned to sell to consumers were long guns like rifles and shotguns used by hunters.

“Navajo is a community of veterans and people of the land,” the tribe’s lawyer, Drew Ryce, said in an email. “We are indifferent to the AR-15 and happy to leave that business behind.”

SCOTUS Denies Cert in New Mexico Public Service Co. v. Barboan

May 1, 2018Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Yesterday’s order list is here.

Case materials are here.

Texas v. Zinke (ICWA Challenge) April Update

May 1, 2018May 1, 2018Kate Fort

There were some thirty entries on the Texas v. Zinke docket this month. Relevant documents are on the case page.

Since our last update, the feds filed another motion to dismiss. The plaintiffs’ seperated into private and state parties for briefing–so the state plaintiffs have filed one brief, and the individual plaintiffs filed another (up to 70 pages each). Both, however, filed a combined opposition to the government’s motion to dismiss and motions for summary judgment.

Ohio and Goldwater have filed amicus briefs on the opposition to the motion to dismiss.

Navajo Nation motioned to intervene for the purpose of a Rule 19 dismissal.

The federal government and the plaintiffs are going back and forth on the scheduling of additional briefing, but there are no orders yet.