Here: LVD Council Habeas Petition.
Update (9/10/10): LVD Habeas Exhibits.
Update (9/11/10): LVD Habeas Exhibits Part 2
Amazing materials. Has this ever happened before? Wonder if one of these (a habeas petition on behalf of an entire tribal council) has ever been filed.
Materials here:
DCT Order on Motion to Reconsider
Union Security Insurance Motion for Reconsideration
Geroux Brief in Opposition to Reconsideration
Earlier materials in this interesting case are here.
Here are the materials in Sault Ste. Tribe of Chippewa Indians v. Hamilton (W.D. Mich.):
Sault Tribe Motion to Dismiss Counterclaims
As reported on Indianz yesterday, former Sault Tribe chief of police and board member Fred Paquin has been indicted in federal court. Here is the indictment:
Here are the early materials in Steiger v. Little River Casino Resort, a sex discrimination claim under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act:
Not sure how the plaintiff’s lawyer thinks the federal court has jurisdiction over this. The complaint just cites Title VII, without any argument as to why it could possibly apply to a tribe or its business. Other doing the same have been subject to Rule 11 sanctions (see our paper here).
This case, Geroux v. Assurant, Inc., started as a tribal court complaint against two insurance companies seeking benefits for long-term disability, but was removed by the defendants to federal court. The district court remanded the case back to tribal court under the principles of the tribal court exhaustion doctrine.
Tribal Court Complaint against Assurant
Tribal Court Complaint against Union Security
Union Security Co. Answer and Counterclaim
Geroux Motion to Dismiss Counterclaim
Here is the opinion in Schmidt v. Army Corps, from the Western District of Michigan, in which the court upheld a decision by the Army Corps not to allow a building project on the St. Mary’s River, near what the Chippewa Ottawa Resource Authority says is a fish spawning ground.
Kudos to Jeff Davis for this one! The United States Attorney’s Office in Grand Rapids is prosecuting the taking of tribal timber on trust land on the Ontonagon Reservation of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community. The defendant argued the reservation was no longer reservation land, but Judge Robert Holmes Bell rejected the motion. Interesting case!
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