CashCall v. Consumer Financial Protection Board Cert Petition

Here:

Questions presented:

1. Whether a claim for legal restitution triggers the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial. 2. Whether a litigant may validly waive a constitutional right at a time when binding circuit precedent clearly forecloses any exercise of that right.

Lower court materials here.

Ninth Circuit Briefing in Oak Flat Cases (so far)

Here are the briefs in several consolidated cases [Brown Lopez v. United States, 25-5197; Arizona Mining Reform Coalition v. Rollins, 25-5185; San Carlos Apache Tribe v. United States Forest Service, 25-5189]:

CA9 Stay Order

Arizona Reform Mining Coalition Opening Brief

Lopez Opening Brief

San Carlos Apache Tribe Opening Brief

Tribal Orgs Amicus

Lipan NAC Amicus  

NNALSA Amicus

Sacred Ground Legal Services

COLT Amicus Brief

Religious Freedom Institute Amicus Brief

Chinook Indian Nation v. Burgum Cert Petition [federal recognition]

Here:

Question presented:

Does a federal court have jurisdiction to recognize the existence of an Indian tribe where the findings in the Indian Tribe List Act, Public Law 103-454, sec. 103(3), provide that “Indian Tribes presently may be recognized by . . . a decision of a United States court,” and no other federal statute addresses the question of tribal recognition?

Lower court materials here.

Update:

Alaska v. United States Cert Petition [Alaska Native fishing subsistence rights]

Here:

Question presented:

Whether the United States can regulate fishing on Alaska’s navigable waters under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, when its statutory authority is limited to “public lands” and that term is defined as “lands, waters, and interests therein … the title to which is in the United States.”

Lower court materials here.

Ninth Circuit Rejects Stillaguamish Effort to Expand U&A Territory [U.S. v. Washington Subproceeding 17-03]

Here is the unpublished opinion in Stillaguamish Indian Tribe v. Upper Skagit Indian Tribe.

Briefs here.

Ninth Circuit Holds CERCLA Damages May Be Assessed for Natural Resources Injuries with a Cultural Dimension

Here is the opinion in Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation v. Teck Caminco Metals Ltd.

Briefs here

Briefs in Opposition to Maverick Gaming Cert Petition

Here:

Federal BIO

State of Washington BIO

Tribal BIO

Cert petition here.

Split Ninth Circuit Panel Rules in Favor of Sho-Ban Tribes in Reservation Land Exchange Challenge

Here is the opinion in Shoshone-Bannock Tribes v. Dept. of the Interior.

Briefs here.

Ninth Circuit Refuses to Enforce Land Partition Agreement between BIA and Estate of Crow Citizen

Here is the opinion in Halverson v. Burgum.

Briefs:

Opening Brief

Answer Brief

Reply

Ninth Circuit Reaffirms Katie John Trilogy and Affirms Injunction against State of Alaska

Here is the opinion in United States v. State of Alaska:

Briefs here.