Showing posts with label American Indians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American Indians. Show all posts
Friday, October 13, 2023

Court Gives Limited Relief to Native Americans Who Object to Park Improvements Project

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 In Perez v. City of San Antonio , (WD TX, Oct. 11, 2023), a Texas federal district court held that members of the Native American Church sh...
Monday, August 29, 2022

RFRA Defense Cannot Be Decided On Pre-Trial Motion

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In United States v. Skeet ,  (D NM, Aug. 26, 2022), a New Mexico federal district court held that defendant, a member of the Navajo nation, ...
Sunday, June 26, 2022

9th Circuit: Oak Flat Land Exchange Did Not Substantially Burden Apache Religious Exercise

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In Apache Stronghold v. United States , (9th Cir., June 24, 2022), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 2-1 decision, held that a pro...
Saturday, June 25, 2022

Department Of Interior Report Includes Role Of Religious Institutions In Indian Boarding School Policies

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Last month, the Department of Interior released  Volume 1 of an investigative report as part of its Federal Indian Boarding School Initiativ...
Wednesday, March 17, 2021

Litigation Between Indian Tribes Over Burial Sites Dismissed On Sovereign Immunity Grounds

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In Muscogee (Creek) Nation v. Poarch Band of Creek Indians , (MD AL, March 15, 2021), the Creek Nation-- an Indian tribe that was forced int...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

Exchange of Apache Sacred Land Does Not Violate RFRA or Free Exercise Clause

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 In Apache Stronghold v. United States , (D AZ, Feb. 12, 2021), an Arizona federal district court refused to issue a preliminary injunction ...
Friday, October 30, 2020

Indian Tribe Loses Free Exercise Claim In Suit Over Handling of Human Remains At Alamo

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In Tap Pilam Coahuiltecan Nation v. Alamo Trust, Inc.,  2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 201209 (WD TX, Sept. 23, 2020), a Texas federal district cour...
Monday, October 19, 2020

Native American Band Fails In Attempt To Halt Border Barrier Construction

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 In Manzanita Band of the Kumeyaay Nation v. Wolf , (D DC, Oct. 16, 2020), in a suit by a Native American tribe the D.C. federal district co...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

Indian Tribe Sues To Stop Trump's Border Wall

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 A California Indian tribe filed suit this week in a California federal district court challenging the construction of President Trump's...
Thursday, March 26, 2020

Sioux Tribes Get Delay In Dakota Access Pipeline

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In Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers , (D DC, March 25, 2020), the D.C. federal district court held that the Army Co...
Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Indian Tribe Sues Over Exclusion From Committee Dealing With Ancestors' Remains

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A lawsuit was filed yesterday in a Texas federal district court by a non-federally recognized Indian tribe against Texas officials involved ...
Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Rules On Tribal Possession of Eagle Remains Are Liberalized

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced last week that it has revised its policy on handling of bald and golden eagle remains found on...
Tuesday, July 02, 2019

New Jersey Town Settles With Native American Tribe Seeking Use of Its Sacred Land

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Mahwah Patch reports that a settlement has been reached in four pending cases pitting the Native American Ramapough Lenape Nation against t...
Thursday, December 14, 2017

9th Circuit: Protection of Sacred Land From Mining Does Not Violate Establishment Clause

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In National Mining Association v. Zinke ,  (9th Cir., Dec. 12, 2017), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the Obama administration&...
Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Township In Litigation With Indian Tribe Over Use of Prayer Grounds

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In Mahwah, New Jersey, where most of the attention is on a lawsuit claiming that the township is attempting to keep out Orthodox Jews (see p...
Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Court Dismisses Claim That Solar Project Infringes Sacred Indian Mounds

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The Springfield Republican reports that on Friday a Massachusetts federal district court dismissed a lawsuit that sought to stop developmen...
Thursday, July 28, 2016

Mormon Judge's Recusal Not Required In Case Involving Indian Tribe

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In Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation, Utah v. State of Utah ,  (D UT, July 25, 2016), a Utah federal district court rej...
Wednesday, March 18, 2015

9th Circuit Hears Oral Arguments In Tribe's Attempt To Protect Medicine Lake Highlands

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On March 12, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments ( video of full oral arguments ) in Pit River Tribe v. Bureau of Lan...
Sunday, March 15, 2015

New Supreme Court Decisions Change Free Exercise Conclusions In Indian Case

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In Northern Arapaho Tribe v. Ashe , (D WY, March 12, 2015) a Wyoming federal district court held that the U.S. Supreme Court's recent de...
Sunday, October 12, 2014

Withdrawal of Land From Uranium Mining Survives Establishment Clause Challenge

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In Yount v. Salazar ,  (D AZ, Sept. 30, 2014), an Arizona federal district court held that the Secretary of Interior's withdrawal of mor...