Here are the materials in In re Klamath Irrigation District:
Ninth Circuit
Ninth Circuit Briefs in Constitutional Challenge to MCA as Unjustified Racial Classification
Here are the briefs in United States v. Gordon:
Ok, so there’s only that brief so far. Also, since the defendant stipulated to tribal membership with Nez Perce, I doubt this has legs, but it’s the kind of full-throated attack on the Indian status cases arising under the Indian country criminal jurisdiction statutes that we should expect more regularly — i.e., the kind that relies a LOT on single-authored concurrences and dissents from a certain SCT Justice that tends to rely on discredited historical research.
Here’s the lower court judgment (nothing terribly helpful here since the defendant stipulated to tribal membership):
Klamath Irrigation District v. Bureau of Reclamation Cert Petition [Rule 19 & Tribal Immunity]
Here:
Question presented:
Whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 19 requires dismissal of an action challenging a federal agency’s use of water subject to state-adjudicated water rights if a Native American tribe asserts an interest in the suit and does not consent to joinder.
Lower court materials here.
Ninth Circuit Rules against Sauk-Suiatte in U&A Matter
Here is the opinion in Upper Skagit Indian Tribe v. Sauk-Suiatte Indian Tribe.
Briefs and so on here.
Modoc Nation and FAA Prevail in Challenge to Airport Sale to Tribe
Here is the unpublished order in Tule Lake Committee v. FAA:
Ninth Circuit Denies Attorney Fees to Chicken Ranch
Ninth Circuit Briefs in Lexington Insurance v. Suquamish
Sauk-Suiattle v. Seattle Cert Petition
Here:
Questions presented:
- Is the court-created “futility” doctrine, which allows a United States court to decide a case removed from state court even though it lacks jurisdiction, repugnant to Article III of the Constitution?
- Does application of the so-called “futility” doctrine by a United States court to decide a case over which it lacks jurisdiction contravene 28 U.S.C. 1447(c), the plain language of which requires remand of the cause to the state court from which it was removed?
- Should the Supreme Court grant certiorari to reconcile a conflict among the circuit courts of appeal regarding the validity of the futility doctrine?
Lower court materials here.
Ninth Circuit En Banc Oral Argument in Apache Stronghold v. United States
SCOTUS Denies Cert in Challenge to Spokane Tribe Water Agreement
Here is today’s order list.
The denied petition is Sulgrove v. Spokane Indian Tribe.
Lower court materials here.
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