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Three Tribes Approved for VAWA Jurisdictional Pilot Project

February 6, 2014February 6, 2014Kate Fort1 Comment

Press release here (pdf) and here.

Details here.

WASHINGTON – Three American Indian tribes – the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona, the Tulalip Tribes of Washington, and the Umatilla Tribes of Oregon – will be the first in the nation to exercise special criminal jurisdiction over certain crimes of domestic and dating violence, regardless of the defendant’s Indian or non-Indian status, under a pilot project authorized by the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013 (VAWA 2013).

FERC Approves Wave Energy Project at Makah

December 27, 2007Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Thanks for Tom Schlosser at Morisett Schlosser for these docs: Here is the FERC announcement and the statements of commissioners Spitzer and Kelliher.