Oral Argument in Appeal re: Tribal Sovereign Immunity Under the Clean Water Act

Here:

Briefs here.

Ninth Circuit Briefs in Federal Prosecution of Former Tribal Consultant Org’s Employee

Here are the materials in United States v. Polequaptewa:

Opening Brief

Government’s Answer Brief

Reply

Oral argument video:

 

Ninth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Nooksack Disenrollees’ RICO Suit

Here is the unpublished opinion in Rabang v. Kelly.

Briefs here.

Ninth Circuit Restores Navajo Nation’s Water Rights Trust Breach Suit

Here is the opinion in Navajo Nation v. Dept. of the Interior. Briefs here.

An excerpt:

Moreover, neither Morongo nor Gros Ventre nor Jicarilla involved claims to vindicate Winters rights, which provide the foundation of the Nation’s claim here. Unlike the plaintiffs in those cases, the Nation, in pointing to its reserved water rights, has identified specific treaty, statutory, and regulatory provisions that impose fiduciary obligations on Federal Appellees—namely, those provisions of the Nation’s various treaties and related statutes and executive orders that establish the Navajo Reservation and, under the long-established Winters doctrine, give rise to implied water rights to make the reservation viable.

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We hold in particular that, under Winters, Federal Appellees have a duty to protect the Nation’s water supply that arises, in part, from specific provisions in the 1868 Treaty that contemplated farming by the members of the Reservation.

Univ. of Wash. Podcast on Reservation Diminishment in Yakama Nation v. Klickitat County

Here.

Briefs in the case here.

SCOTUS Denies Cert in Yakama v. Yakima County Criminal Jurisdiction Dispute

Here is today’s order list.

Cert stage briefs and links to lower court materials here.

Ninth Circuit Resuscitates Federal Tort Claims Act Brought by Tribal Police Officer Fired by Reno-Sparks Indian Colony

Here is the opinion in Miller v. United States.

Briefs:

Appellant Brief

Federal Answer Brief

Reply

Ninth Circuit Decides Doucette v. DOI

Here is the unpublished opinion in  Doucette v. Dept. of the Interior:

CA9 Memorandum Opinion

Briefs here.

USDA Pulls Environmental Impact Statement on Oak Flat/Resolution Copper Mine [updated with CA9 Order Denying Stay Pending Appeal]

Here is the press release from Rep. Raúl Grijalva on the matter. Gizmodo coverage here.

And the briefs in Apache Stronghold v. United States (9th Cir.):

Emergency Motion

Federal Opposition

Religious Groups Amicus Brief

Religious Liberty Scholars Amicus Brief

Tribal Amicus Brief

Lower court materials here.

Update:

CA9 Order Denying Stay

Ninth Circuit Materials in Snoqualmie Tribe v. State of Washington

Briefs:

Samish Brief

Samish Reply

Sauk-Suiattle Amicus Brief

Snoqualmie Brief

Snoqualmie Reply

State Response Brief

Treaty Tribes Amicus Brief

Tulalip Amicus Brief

Lower court materials here.