Sierra Club Magazine Article on Indian Country Voting Rights

Here.

Salt Lake Tribune: “Split appears in San Juan as new Navajo-led County Commission moves to support an even bigger Bears Ears than Trump shrunk”

Here.

Salt Lake Tribune Editorial: “It’s time for San Juan County’s white residents to speak up for their American Indian neighbors”

Here. Try going through google news if the link doesn’t work.

Diné CARE Prevails in NEPA Challenge to Navajo Mine Expansion

Here are the materials in  Diné Citizens against Ruining Our Environment v. United States Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (D. Colo.):

48 Diné CARE Opening Brief

53 OSMRE Response

54 BHP Navajo Response

55 Diné CARE Reply

79 DCT Order

News coverage here.

Posts on prior motion to dismiss and motion to intervene.

Federal Court Denies Navajo Rule 19 Motion in Diné CARE v. US Office of Surface Mining Reclamation

Here is the order:

DCT Order Denying Navajo Motion to Dismiss

Briefs are here.

Update in Navajo Dine CARE v. Salazar Suit re Navajo Mine — Additional Update (11/6/12)

Here are the updated materials:

Complaint post

Navajo Intervention and Motion to Dismiss post

Diné CARE Response

Navajo Reply

Update: FINAL 2012-10-18 Dine C.A.R.E.,et al. v. Salazar Not. Supp. Auth.

Update in Diné CARE v. Salazar

Here is Navajo’s latest pleading (limited motion to intervene and motion to dismiss):

FINAL COMBINED NAVAJO NATION AREA IV PLEADINGS

The complaint is here.

Diné CARE File Another Suit to Stop Coal Mine at Navajo Mine

Here is the complaint in Diné Citizens against Ruining Our Environment v. United States Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (D. Colo.):

Dine CARE Complaint

Our posting on the related and previous suit is here.

Montezuma Creek Clinic Plaintiffs Ask Navajo Supreme Court to Ignore Tenth Circuit Ruling

From the Salt Lake Tribune:

Federal appeals court judges have said a Navajo tribal court can’t force the San Juan County-owned Montezuma Creek Clinic to rehire employees who alleged they were wrongfully terminated.

But three former employees won’t take no for an answer.

In March, they asked the Navajo Supreme Court to instruct tribal courts to ignore that ruling from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals [Supreme Court Project materials] — and to order the clinic to pay fines totaling more than $26 million. In addition, the ex-workers want their former employer to pay their attorneys’ fees for the past nine years.

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