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Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians v. Patchak

Environmental Law, Gaming Law, Government Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law
In a suit brought under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) challenging a deal to take into trust on the Tribe's behalf a tract of land for gaming...

Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter

Education Law, Government Law, Indian Law, Administrative Law, Constitutional Law
In an action brought by Tribes under the Contract Disputes Act for breach of contract, arising out of agreements with the Department of the Interior...

In re Gabriel G.

Family Law, Indian Law, Juvenile Law
In an appeal from an order terminating parental rights to an infant, the juvenile court's order is reversed where it did not comply with the...

American Property Management Corp. v. Superior Court (U.S. Grant Hotel Ventures, LLC)

Civil Procedure, Corp. Governance, Corporation & Enterprise Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a dispute between a limited liability company (LLC) formed for the purpose of buying a hotel and the hotel property manager, a writ of mandate is...

Jamulians Against the Casino v. Iwasaki

Civil Procedure, Environmental Law, Indian Law
In a case contesting CalTrans' execution of a settlement agreement with an Indian tribe that resolved federal litigation between those parties over...

In re A.G.

Civil Procedure, Family Law, Indian Law, Juvenile Law
An order terminating parental rights is reversed, where the Alameda County Social Services Agency failed to investigate the father's Native American...

Richard v. US

Indian Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a suit alleging that under the relevant "bad men" provision in the Laramie Treaty with Sioux tribes, a non-Indian drunk driver's actions in killing...

Oklevueha Native American Church of Hawaii, Inc. v. Holder

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Indian Law
In a suit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief barring the government from enforcing the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) against the plaintiffs,...

US v. Wilbur

Commercial Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Indian Law, Tax Law
In a prosecution that resulted in convictions of four members of an Indian tribe for crimes arising from an eight-year period of trafficking...

Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District v. Lee

Civil Procedure, Indian Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a suit by a co-owner and by the operator of a power plant on Navajo land for declaratory and injunctive relief against Navajo officials who...