tribal-rights
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-6955 | In Re Dexter Leemon Johnson | 2025-04-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction legal-existence state-sovereignty tribal-rights | Whether the courts admitted evidence being respondent to Art. IV, § 3 of the U.S. Constitution? Pursuant to Supreme Court precedent this court has Ar… | |
| 24-5942 | Garry Wayne Wilson v. Carrie Bridges, Warden | Tenth Circuit | 2024-11-08 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-interpretation declaratory-relief federal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-official tribal-rights | If the filer enrolled freedyipm rf (Ihero^ nUilsn Tribe Is (LOMldereJl. an JT^duu'i iO;f£m ?£> fhedMT^ of t&s (kwh adr^ Co^fTro -fjuork, 5^7 US (2a^i)… |
| 22-655 | Dan Sulgrove, et al. v. Spokane Indian Tribe, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-13 | Denied | Response Waived | article-iii article-three-standing district-court-order federal-enforcement final-judgment government-agreement judgment-amendment standing tribal-reserved-rights tribal-rights water-rights | 1. Whether landowners, whose water use was exempted from federal enforcement under a decades old final judgment decreeing tribal reserved water rights… |
| 21-913 | Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, et al. v. Lummi Nation, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-21 | Denied | Response Waived | federal-indian-law fishing-rights geographic-boundaries maritime-boundaries native-american-law ninth-circuit treaty-interpretation treaty-precedent treaty-rights tribal-rights | In 1855, the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe, Lower Elwha Indian Tribe, and Lummi Nation all entered treaties with the United S… |
| 21-838 | Penobscot Nation v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | alaska-pacific-fisheries indian-canons indian-canons-of-construction indian-settlement-acts maine-indian-settlement-acts penobscot-nation reservation reservation-boundaries statutory-interpretation tribal-rights | Whether the Maine Indian Settlement Acts— consistent with this Court's precedents on statutory interpretation and the Indian canons of construction— … |
| 21-840 | United States v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Amici (1) | indian-reservation land-claims maine-indian-claims-settlement-act native-american-rights natural-resources penobscot-nation settlement-act statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction tribal-rights tribal-sovereignty | Whether the Penobscot Indian Reservation includes only the uplands of the islands in the main stem of the Penobscot River or also includes the surroun… |
| 21-377 | Cherokee Nation, et al. v. Chad Everet Brackeen, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Judgment Issued | Response WaivedRelisted (5) | anti-commandeering child-welfare civil-rights equal-protection indian-child-welfare-act morton-v-mancari placement-preferences spending-clause state-commandeering tribal-rights | In 1978, Congress enacted the Indian Child Welfare Act ("ICWA") to remedy the "alarmingly high percentage of Indian families [being] broken up by the … |
| 19-1134 | Lonny E. Baley, et al. v. United States, et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-03-17 | Denied | Amici (6) | endangered-species-act federal-agency federal-reserved-water-rights fifth-amendment mccarran-amendment reclamation-act state-law state-water-law tribal-rights water-rights | Petitioners are a plaintiff class of Oregon and California farmers and ranchers who depend on their water rights in the Klamath River basin to irrigat… |
| 19-550 | Kimberly Watso, et al. v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-law administrative-procedure chevron-deference child-services civil-rights federal-preemption indian-child-welfare-act parental-custody state-agency-rules tribal-jurisdiction tribal-rights | Whether the lower court improperly deferred to the Indian Child Services Department Manual over state agency rules and interpretations of the Indian C… |