Ronald J. Mann | July 10, 2020 | American Indian Law
This article was originally posted on SCOTUSblog.com on July 9, 2020. The first thing we learned this morning with the announcement of the decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma was that Chief Justice John Roberts didn’t manage to be in the majority in every single 5-4...
Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Kaighn Smith, Jr., Wenona T. Singel and Jennifer Morinigo | May 19, 2020 | American Indian Law
The following text is excerpted from Restatement of the Law, The Law of American Indians, Tentative Draft No. 4, Chapter. 4. Tribal Economic Development Included below is the Introductory Note of Subchapter 3 – Indian Gaming. This text has not been considered by the...
Lauren Klosinski | September 14, 2018 | American Indian Law
On September 4, the Arizona Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Hopi Tribe v. Arizona Snowbowl Resort, et al., the Hopi Tribe’s public nuisance claim against Arizona Snowbowl’s snow making practices. The Arizona Court of Appeals found that Snowbowl’s...
Lauren Klosinski | July 11, 2018 | American Indian Law
From Tribelive.com A modest courthouse and a fledgling police force, a housing development for American Indian families and a school where students are taught exclusively in the tribe’s ancestral language. These are the visible signs of an independent tribal...