Here are the materials in Archambault v. United States (D.S.D.):

Here are the materials in Davis v. King County (Wash. Ct. App.):
79696-6-8-I Appellants’ Motion for Reconsideration
79696-6-8-I Appellees’ Response to Motion for Reconsideration
Prior post here.
Here are the materials in Lacy v. Snohomish County (Wash. Ct. App.):
4-15-19 Appellant’s Opening Brief
5-17-19 Respondent Cross Appellant’s Brief
6-14-19 Appellant’s Reply Brief
Prior post here.
Fletcher’s new working paper is up on SSRN: “Erasing the Thin Blue Line: An Indigenous Proposal.”
Here is the abstract:
The article was inspired by the statements of support for the Black Lives Matter movement from state supreme courts like those in Washington and California, and elsewhere. I am a tribal appellate judge for several tribes here in Michigan, and I serve on the Michigan Tribal-State-Judicial Forum. In part, this article is addressed to the state judges who have spoken out on BLM and the judges on the Michigan forum who speak out in favor of Indian children. The novel claim of the article is that the Supreme Court long has used what I term “social contract talk” to demean, dehumanize, and marginalize POC and lower income persons most likely to be subjected to police interventions. This “social contract talk” is not the law, but enables judges to grant police (and prosecutors, though I don’t address them directly) immense discretion to target POC and lower income persons, and to immunize them from legal consequences. Weaponized “social contract talk” recalls the origin of the social contract in America, which enabled and encouraged slavery and dispossession of Indigenous peoples. I offer an alternative to social contract talk rooted in Anishinaabe political philosophy, which encourages inclusion, healing, and accountability. Many tribes have relatively little policing of their territories and a completely different mentality about criminal justice.
Here are the materials in Davis v. King County (Wash. Ct. App.):
9-27-19 Amended Appellees’ Joint Response Brief
09-09-19 Appellees’ Joint Response Brief
An excerpt:
“Before addressing each of the estate’s arguments, we acknowledge that Davis’s death is tragic and echo the trial court’s sentiment that the application of RCW 4.24.420 here is problematic because it precludes claims where law enforcement officers’ actions and training may have been unreasonable, given their knowledge that the individual they were confronting was suicidal and armed. RCW 4.24.420 prevents courts and juries from reaching the issue of whether law enforcement’s negligence resulted in the loss of life. The statute is clear and precludes our evaluation of these policy questions.”
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Senator McCoy (Tulalip Tribes) recently was elected to a leadership position in the Senate, where he will chair the Senate Democratic Caucus.
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“The racial group most likely to be killed by law enforcement is Native Americans, followed by African Americans, Latinos, Whites, and Asian Americans.”
Here is the report from the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice.
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