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The Legality of Tribal Disenrollments: Greed or Growing Pains? (Part 1)2 comments

Erick wrote 1 day ago: ** AUTHOR’S NOTE: This is the first part of a multi-part article that deals with the legality … more »

Tags: Indian Law, disenrollment, tribal disenrollment, tribal sovereignty immunity, tribal sovereignty, Indian Gaming, Indian casinos, disenroll, Enrollment

Ottawa Tribe v. Ohio Dept. Natural Resources Treaty Rights Claim Rejected

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 3 months ago: Here is the opinion (H/T Indianz). Here is the link to the materials we placed on the blog in Decemb … more »

Tags: Research, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, treaty rights, Lake Erie, Briefs, Indian treaty, Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma, Ohio, Helen Tanner

Angelique Eaglewoman: The Philosophy of Colonization Underlying Taxation Imposed Upon Tribal Nations within the United States

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 4 months ago: Angelique Eagelwoman (soon to be at Idaho Law) has posted “The Philosophy of Colonization Unde … more »

Tags: Scholarship, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, indian taxation, tribal government, Angelique Eaglewoman, Wambdi A. Wastewin, tribal taxation, tribalist economic theory, Tulsa Law Review

WaPo Coverage of Exxon Valdez Oil Spill S.Ct. Case

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 5 months ago: From WaPo: When a federal jury in Alaska in 1994 ordered Exxon to pay $5 billion to thousands of peo … more »

Tags: Supreme Court, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Environmental, Certiorari, Washington Post, Exxon Valdez, Exxon, Admiralty Law, maritime law

DC Circuit Vacates EPA Mercury Emissions -- New Jersey v. EPA

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 5 months ago: Here is the opinion. Here is a link to our previous post that included several briefs, including the … more »

Tags: Research, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Environmental, regulations, treaty rights, Ottawa, Chippewa, D.C. Circuit, Ireland

Tribal Amicus Brief in Exxon Valdez Damages Case

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 5 months ago: Brief of Amicus Curiae National Congress of American Indians et al., in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker … more »

Tags: Supreme Court, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Environmental, Certiorari, Riyaz Kanji, Exxon Valdez, Exxon, Admiralty Law, maritime law

July 2007 NY State Bar Exam Indian Law Question1 comment

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 6 months ago: We know that Washington, New Mexico, and South Dakota have Indian law on the state bar exam, but so … more »

Tags: Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Tribal Courts, New York, tribal court jurisdiction, Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Family Land and Cattle Co., state bar exam

Political Status of Indian Tribes Article in St. John's Law Review

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 6 months ago: My new article, “The Original Understanding of the Political Status of Indian Tribes,” p … more »

Tags: Scholarship, Supreme Court, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Fourteenth Amendment, Morton v. Mancari, Johnson v. M'Intosh, St. John's Law Review, political status of Indian tribes, original understanding

ICT Editorial on Cert Pool Memos & Indian Law2 comments

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 7 months ago: You can read my newest Indian Country Today editorial here or here. Here’s the text: Each year … more »

Tags: Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Supreme Court, treaty rights, cert petitions, Certiorari, Editorial, Indian Country Today, Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Nevada

Reflections on Jonathan Lethem's Essay "Defending The Searchers"1 comment

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 7 months ago: I recently read Jonathan Lethem’s essay from his book “The Disappointment Artist.” … more »

Tags: Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Fiction, Supreme Court, cert pool memos, John Ford, John Wayne, Jonathan Lethem, prisoner habeas claims, the searchers

WSJ Article on Tribal Judges

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 7 months ago: Thanks to Mike McBride and June Mamagona Fletcher, you can download the entire article here without … more »

Tags: News, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Tribal Courts, Michigan, arizona, Hualapai, South Dakota, Oklahoma, tribal criminal jurisdiction

Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma v. Speck Materials1 comment

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 7 months ago: Here are materials relating to the Ottawa Tribe of Oklahoma’s attempts to establish hunting an … more »

Tags: Research, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, treaty rights, Lake Erie, Indian Claims Commission Act, Briefs, Rule 19, Indian treaty, Eleventh Amendment

CRS Reports -- Additional Available Reports

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 7 months ago: We previously offered links to Congressional Research Service reports related to Indian law here. Si … more »

Tags: Research, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Congressional Research Service, OpenCRS, indian taxation, Small Business Administration, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, american indian education

Blackmun Digital Archive Research -- A Concordance of Indian Law Cases (1986-1993)

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 7 months ago: Justice Blackmun’s papers are starting to appear online. The docket sheets and the cert pool m … more »

Tags: Scholarship, Supreme Court, Research, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Certiorari, cert petition, cert pool memos, Blackmun Digital Archives, Occasional Papers Series

Marilyn Vann Talk Materials1 comment

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 8 months ago: On November 9, 2007, Marilyn Vann spoke about the history of the Cherokee Freedmen here at MSU law c … more »

Tags: Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Lecture, Research, Cherokee JAT, Cherokee Nation, Federal Bar Association, Freedmen, tribal disenrollment, tribal membership

Federal Indian Law Cert Petitions -- A Comparison of State Petitions and Tribal Petitions (1997 to present)

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 8 months ago: Using the United States Law Week online database (that goes back to 1997 or so) that lists all the p … more »

Tags: Supreme Court, Research, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, cert petitions, United States Law Week

Supreme Court Outcomes: Federal Indian Law from 1959

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 8 months ago: Here’s my version of the wins and losses in the Supreme Court from 1959’s Williams v. Le … more »

Tags: Research, Supreme Court, Cabazon Band, Williams v. Lee, Alex Skibine

US v. Washington -- Culverts Materials

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 8 months ago: In August, Judge Martinez granted the Stevens treaty tribes’ motion for summary judgment in th … more »

Tags: Research, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, treaty rights, Briefs, Stevens Treaty Tribes, US v. Washington, Western District of Washington, Summary Judgment, cross-motions

Challenge to EPA's Mercury Rule -- New Jersey v. EPA (CADC)

Matthew L.M. Fletcher wrote 8 months ago: The D.C. Circuit will hear oral argument in the challenge to EPA’s regulations applying to coa … more »

Tags: Research, Author: Matthew L.M. Fletcher, treaty rights, Environmental, Ottawa, Chippewa, D.C. Circuit, Ireland, Briefs