indian-affairs

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
23-6798	Qaya Mikel Gordon v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2024-02-21	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	congressional-power constitutional-authority due-process indian-affairs major-crimes-act native-nations tribal-sovereignty trust-obligations	1. Whether Congress exceeded its authority under the Constitution by enacting the Major Crimes Act, 18 U.S.C. §1153, as applied to crimes committed by…
22-6607	Billy Joe Wolfe, Jr. v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction	Eighth Circuit	2023-01-23	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	aedpa congress-power congressional-power constitutional-law due-process federal-courts indian-affairs subject-matter-jurisdiction treaty-interpretation treaty-rights	(1) Whether the time of filing limitations of Antiterrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) were intended by Congress to prevent consideration of …
21-7439	Curtis Henry Johnson v. Paul Benton	Mississippi	2022-03-23	Denied	IFP	article-1-section-8 constitution constitutional-interpretation indian-affairs land-occupancy plenary-powers state-court-jurisdiction state-courts treaty-rights tribal-sovereignty	Under Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution, it gives Congress plenary powers to deal with Indian affairs. Congress can limit, modif…