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…