United States v. Tohono O’odham Nation – Page 2

Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation CFC Claims Dismissed

November 30, 2011Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is another suit dismissed in accordance with U.S. v. Tohono O’odham Nation:

New Scholarship on U.S. v. Tohono O’odham Nation

November 28, 2011November 28, 2011Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Craig A. Schwartz has published Footloose: How to Tame the Tucker Act Shuffle After United States v. Tohono O’odham Nation in the UCLA Law Review Discourse.

The article has very little to do with Indian law, but demonstrates (if you read between the lines a bit) how the United States probably used all of the Indian claims cases now being dismissed en masse to also wipe out a class of claims based on regulatory takings. If the CFC “shuffle” case had arisen in the regulatory takings context, imagine how Scalia, J. would have reacted.

CFC Dismisses Iowa Tribe Claims against US under Tohono O’dham Precedent

November 21, 2011Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here:

CFC Dismissal of Iowa Tribe Claims

Coeur d’Alene Tribal Claims Fall under the Tohono O’odham Precedent

November 21, 2011Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the new case from the Court of Federal Claims:

CFC Dismissal of Coeur d’Alene Claims

Federal Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Eastern Shawnee Tribe’s CFC Claims

November 5, 2011November 4, 2011Matthew L.M. Fletcher

Here is the unpublished, summary order in Eastern Shawnee Tribe v. United States. It was on remand from a GVR (grant, vacate, remand) from the Supreme Court (docs here). The Tribe had petitioned the Supreme Court before the United States v. Tohono O’odham Nation decision.