New Mexico Federal Court Dismisses Pueblo of Santa Ana Land Dispute with Interior, Pueblo of Santa Ana

Here are the new materials in Pueblo of San Felipe v. Haaland (D.N.M.):

Prior post here.

New Mexico Federal Court Allows Pueblo of San Felipe to Amend Its Complaint to Seek a Resurvey of the Lands in Dispute with Pueblo of Santa Ana

Here are the new materials in Pueblo of San Felipe v. Haaland (D.N.M.):

78 Motion to Amend Complaint

78-1 Proposed Amended Complaint

86 Federal Opposition to Motion to Amend

87 Pueblo of Santa Ana Opposition to Motion to Amend

92 Reply ISO 78

120 DCT Opinion on Motion to Amend

Prior post here.

Nuttin’ to do wit’ nuttin’.

New Mexico Federal Court Dismisses San Felipe Pueblo Challenge to Boundary Claim Settlement with Santa Ana Pueblo

Here is the order in Pueblo of San Felipe v. Haaland (D.N.M.):

Briefs here.

Michigan COA Affirms Dismissal of Quiet Title Action Implicating Federal Trust Land Held for GTB, BMIC, and Sault Tribe

Here are the opinions in Nelson v. Chippewa Ottawa Resource Authority:

Unpublished Opinion

Dissent

SCOTUS Denies Cert in Shingle Springs Miwok Matter

Here is Monday’s order list.

The Court denied cert in Caballero v. United States, lower court materials here.

The tribe described an earlier incarnation of this case as “sovereign identity theft.”

Caballero v. United States Cert Petition

Here:

Cert Petition

Questions presented:

  1. Whether the Trial Court and the Court of Appeals committed prejudicial error in barring/blocking a Native American tribe from pursuing in rem / quiet title remedies on lands promised and granted to them by the USA from that tribe, but stolen by another tribe based on lack of subject matter jurisdiction due to the non-justiciable political question doctrine.
  1. Whether or not, the Court committed prejudicial error by blocking a native American tribe from pursuing an in rem/quiet title/stolen tribal lands case, on the basis of USA sovereign immunity tribal sovereign immunity.
  2. Whether the waiver by the United States of America of its sovereign immunity over quiet title claims
    impermissibly discriminates in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment against Native American tribes having quiet title claims that are barred by the Native American lands express exceptions set forth in 28 USC section 2409a.
  3. Whether the Trial Court and the Court of Appeals committed prejudicial air in barring/blocking the
    Indian tribes pursuit of Land title claims constitutes an impermissible denial of the right to access to
    courts as guaranteed by the First Amendment right to petition the court government for redress of grievances.

Lower court materials here.

Federal Court Dismisses Most Claims re: Alaska Native Allotment

Here are the materials so far in Shade v. Dept. of the Interior (D. Alaska):

14 Amended Complaint

15 US Motion to Dismiss

22 Chaney Motion to Dismiss

26 Shade Response

33 DCT Order

Ninth Circuit Briefs in Landreth v. United States [Ownership of Lake Quinault]

Here:

Landreth Opening Brief

Quinault Answering Brief

US Answer Brief

Lower court materials here.

Federal Court Dismisses Klickitat County’s Challenge to Yakama Reservation Land Status, PL280 Retrocession

Here are the materials in Klickitat County v. Department of the Interior (E.D. Wash.):

9 US Motion to Dismiss

10 Response

12 US Reply

14 DCT Order

Tenth Circuit Briefs in Northern New Mexicans Protecting Land Water and Rights v. United States

Here:

Opening Brief

Federal Answer Brief

Reply

Lower court materials here.