U.S. Supreme Court Bulletin
http://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/sct/2020-2021update.html
Petition for certiorari is pending in one case:
- Perkins v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue (Taxation; Treaty Obligations)
- Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation v. Yakima County (Jurisdiction)
Federal Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/federal/2021.html
- The Cherokee Nation v. Department of the Interior (Trust Relationship; Fiduciary Duty)
- Becker v. Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation (Tribal Sovereign Immunity; Jurisdiction Over Nonmembers)
- Chicken Ranch Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians v. Newsom (IGRA)
State Courts Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/state/2021.html
- Grayson v. State of Oklahoma (Criminal Jurisdiction; Reservation Boundary)
- Spears v. State of Oklahoma (Criminal Jurisdiction; Reservation Boundary)
- Sizemore v. State of Oklahoma (Criminal Jurisdiction; Reservation Boundary)
News Bulletin
https://www.narf.org/nill/bulletins/news/currentnews.html
This week, in brief:
- Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issues en banc decision in Brackeen v. Haaland — formerly Brackeen v. Bernhardt
- Seven Generation Thinking: Indigenous traditions in North America emphasize resilience; engineered timber is helping realize those principles
- Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma Air National Guard break ground on housing addition for Cherokee veterans in Tahlequah
- Space Force swears in first Indigenous female intelligence officer
- Transportation commissioner questions why a tribal-state road project is stalled
- Land seizures, 'unethical' research: University of Minnesota confronts troubled history with tribal nations
- Mississippi returns hundreds of Native Americans' remains to Chickasaw Nation
- Justice Department working with tribes on missing persons
- The 'slow-motion genocide' of the Chinook Indian Nation
