U.S. Supreme Court Bulletin
One petition for certiorari was filed on 7/7/25:
- Stitt v. City of Tulsa (25-30) (State Criminal Jurisdiction in Indian Country)
Federal Courts Bulletin
- Patterson v. Harpe (Criminal Jurisdiction)
- Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation v. United States Department of the Interior (Breach of Trust)
- Cherokee Nation v. United States Department of the Interior (Indian Gaming Regulatory Act; Administrative Procedure Act)
U.S. Legislation - 119th Congress Bulletin
- S.2272 - A bill to provide access to reliable, clean, and drinkable water on Tribal lands, and for other purposes.
- H.R.4345 - To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to expand the definition of critical access hospital under the Medicare program to include certain hospitals on Indian reservations.
- H.R.4377 - To provide access to reliable, clean, and drinkable water on Tribal lands, and for other purposes.
U.S. Regulatory Bulletin
- Native American Employment and Training Council (Labor)
- Proposed Information Collection Activity; American Indian and Alaska Natives Facility Condition, Location, and Ownership Survey (HHS)
- Indian Child Welfare Act; Designated Tribal Agents for Service of Notice (Interior)
Law Review & Bar Journal Bulletin
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- Beneath the surface: Unearthing legal, cultural, and environmental challenges to resource extraction on Indigenous land.
- Establishing a “duty to not destroy”: Using fiduciary duty to hold settler-colonial states responsible for cultural and linguistic harms committed against Indigenous students at government-run boarding schools.
- Expanding the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to the U.S. territories.
- Indigenous consultation in space policy: Upholding sacred connections and legal obligations.
- Issues of contemporary health policy and law for Two-Spirit, Indigiqueer, transgender and gender-diverse communities in Indian Country.
- A treaty right to healthy forests? Using Tribal fishing rights to challenge timber sales.
News Bulletin
This week, in brief:
- Salinan Tribe of Monterey navigates federal acknowledgement process in pursuit of Tribal sovereignty
- The Miccosukee Tribe is eyeing a legal challenge over Alligator Alcatraz
- Alaska's Craig City Council considers controversial ‘Indian Country’ ordinance
- Native communities could lose $24.5B under Trump administration proposal
- ‘Indigenous lives matter’: Arizona’s Turquoise Alert for missing Indigenous people goes live
