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EEOC v. Peabody Western Coal Co.

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Indian Law, Labor & Employment Law
In an action by the EEOC alleging that, in maintaining its employment preference for Navajo workers, defendant discriminated against non-Navajo...

Hydro Resources, Inc. v. EPA

Administrative Law, Environmental Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a petition for review of the EPA's "final land status determination" expressing its judgment that petitioner's land qualified as "Indian land," the...

Iowa Tribe of Ks. v. Salazar

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action by an Indian tribe claiming that the Secretary of the Interior improperly took a small tract of land into trust on behalf of the...

Yankton Sioux Tribe v. US Army Corps of Eng'rs.

Government Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action by the Yankton Sioux Tribe challenging the validity of land transfers by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to the State of South Dakota,...

Miccosukee Tribe of Indians v. Kraus-Anderson Constr. Co.

Civil Procedure, Construction, Contracts, Indian Law, Judgement Enforcement
In an action by an Indian tribe seeking to enforce a judgment in a breach of contract action against defendant, summary judgment for defendant is...

US v. Confederated Tribes of the Colville Indian Res.

Indian Law, Water Law
In an appeal by Indian tribes of the district court's finding that they shared joint fishing rights with another tribe at the "Wenatshapam Fishery" on...

Evans v. US Dep't of Interior

Civil Procedure, Government Law, Indian Law, Water Law
In an appeal by the Tulalip Tribes from an order of the district court denying them the right to intervene in an action brought by the Snohomish...

Cayuga Indian Nation v. Gould

Criminal Law & Procedure, Government Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate, Tax Law
In an action by an Indian tribe against the Sheriffs and District Attorneys of Cayuga and Seneca counties, claiming that plaintiff was under no...

Eagle v. Yerington Paiute Tribe

Criminal Law & Procedure, Habeas Corpus, Indian Law
In a habeas petition challenging petitioner's conviction of criminal child abuse in the tribal court for the Yerington Paiute Tribe, the denial of the...

Yankton Sioux Tribe v. Podhradsky

Government Law, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action by the Yankton Sioux Tribe seeking a declaratory judgment that all land not ceded to the U.S. in 1894 remained part of the Sioux...