State of Oklahoma v. Tyson Foods

Split Tenth Circuit Rejects Cherokee Nation Bid to Intervene in Oklahoma v. Tyson Foods

Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment

Here are the materials (the opinion is here; h/t Indianz):

Cherokee Opening Brief

Farming Companies’ Brief

Oklahoma Answer Brief

Cherokee Supplemental Brief

Farming Companies’ Supplemental Brief

Oklahoma Supplemental Brief

Tyson Chicken Successfully Asserts Cherokee Treaty Rights in Environmental Defense

Matthew L.M. Fletcher

As we reported last fall here, poultry producers including Tyson Chicken asserted that many of the State of Oklahoma’s efforts to enforce state environmental laws against them must fail because the waterways at issue are owned at least in part by the Cherokee Nation. The Northern District of Oklahoma substantially agreed.

Here is the opinion (thanks to M.M.) — Tyson Opinion and Order