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

Government Law, Indian Law
In an action by a Sioux Indian tribe seeking a declaration that the 1889 Act of Congress dissolving the Great Sioux Reservation never took effect, the...

Keweenaw Bay Indian Comm. v. Rising

Indian Law, Tax Law
In an Indian tribe's action seeking injunctive relief from Michigan's policy of taxing transactions involving the tribe and from Michigan's reliance...

Philip Morris USA, Inc. v. King Mtn. Tobacco Co.

Civil Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Indian Law, Intellectual Property, Trade Dress, Trademark
In a trademark infringement action based on allegedly infringing cigarette packaging being sold on the Internet, an Indian reservation and elsewhere,...

Philip Morris USA, Inc. v. King Mtn. Tobacco Co.

Civil Procedure, Cyberspace Law, Indian Law, Intellectual Property, Trade Dress, Trademark
In a trademark infringement action based on allegedly infringing cigarette packaging being sold on the Internet, an Indian reservation and elsewhere,...

US v. Oldbear

Criminal Law & Procedure, Indian Law
Conviction for embezzling Indian tribal funds is affirmed where Defendant's proffered testimony regarding others who received tribal funds for...

United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians v. US Dept. of Hous. & Urb. Dev.

Administrative Law, Government Benefits, Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In an action challenging a reduction in the federal funding Plaintiff Indian tribe received under the Native American Housing Assistance and...

In re S.B.

Family Law, Indian Law, Juvenile Law
Juvenile court order terminating parental rights is affirmed the Department of Children and Family services gave proper Indian Child Welfare Act...

Pyke v. Cuomo

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Evidence, Indian Law
District court's grant of summary judgment to defendants on plaintiffs' claim that defendants' response to a period of violent unrest on an Indian...

Elliott v. White Mtn. Apache Tribal Ct.

Civil Procedure, Indian Law
In an action to enjoin proceedings in an Indian tribal court, the dismissal of the complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction is affirmed,...

Wilkinson v. US

Indian Law, Injury & Tort Law, Property Law & Real Estate
In a conversion and intentional infliction of emotional distress action brought under the Federal Tort Claims Act, district court judgment is affirmed...