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FTCA Claim Arising from Tule River Reservation Employee-Caused Accident Dismissed

November 17, 2014Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here are the materials in Manuel v. United States (E.D. Cal.):

An excerpt:

In sum, Plaintiff fails to establish that the Tribe’s self-determination contracts authorized Hammond’s acts or omissions underlying Plaintiff’s negligence claim. Allender, 379 F. Supp. 2d at 1211. Defendant, however, has demonstrated that the Tribe’s self-determination contracts did not establish, fund, or contemplate Hammond’s position as Tribal community liaison. Plaintiff has also failed to allege facts showing that Hammond was carrying out any of the Tribe’s self-determination contracts. The Court therefore finds that Hammond is not an employee of the federal government under Section 314. Consequently, Defendant is not subject to liability under the FTCA for Hammond’s alleged negligence. Accordingly, the Court must dismiss Plaintiff’s complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.

Fresno Bee Article on Intertribal Gaming Market Competition in California’s San Joaquin Valley

January 10, 2014Matthew L.M. Fletcher

The Bee published “Valley Indian casinos in flux as tribes jockey for gambling dollars.”

New Yale University Press Book on The History of the Tule River Tribe (by Gelya Frank & Carole Goldberg)

April 12, 2010April 12, 2010Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Defying the Odds

The Tule River Tribe’s Struggle for Sovereignty in Three Centuries

Gelya Frank and Carole Goldberg

Mar 15, 2010
432 p., 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
40 b/w illus. + 15 maps
ISBN: 9780300120165
ISBN-10: 0300120168

An anthropologist and a legal scholar combine expertise in this innovative book, deploying the history of one California tribe—the Tule River Tribe—in a definitive study of indigenous sovereignty from earliest contact through the current Indian gaming era.

Gelya Frank is Professor of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy and Anthropology at the University of Southern California and Director of the Tule River Tribal History Project. Carole Goldberg is the Jonathan D. Varat Professor of Law at the University of California, Los Angeles and Director of the Joint Degree Program in Law and American Indian Studies.