Not sure how this one slipped by–the Governor of Nevada signed this into law just before Brackeen came down.
Media coverage here.
Assemblywoman Backus (the sponsor of the bill) graduated from ASU with an Indian Law Certificate. She is also a commissioner on the Uniform Law Commission’s study committee for a uniform state ICWA law.
You can read my newest Indian Country Today editorial here or here.
Here’s the text:
Each year, the U.S. Supreme Court chooses which appeals it wishes to decide. In most years, the court decides to hear fewer than 80 cases out of several thousand appeals. These usually include cases in which there is a split of authority in lower courts (often called a ”circuit split,” referencing the 13 federal circuit courts of appeals), cases in which a lower court has committed a gross error or cases in which there is a critical constitutional issue at stake. Cases in which there is no split, cases that will affect only a few people, cases involving simple correction of a minor lower court error or cases involving an unimportant issue are unlikely to be heard by the court.
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