Showing posts with label Native Americans. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Native Americans. Show all posts
Friday, August 30, 2024

5th Circuit Reopens Lipan-Apache's Suit Objecting to Park Modifications

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 In 2021, Texas voters approved an amendment to the state constitution that provides: This state or a political subdivision of this state m...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

5th Circuit Denies Further Relief to Native American Church Objecting to Park Modifications

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As previously reported , last year a Texas federal district court held that members of the Lipam-Apache Native American Church should be giv...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

Apaches Seek Review of Their RFRA Claim by 29-Judge Panel

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As previously reported , last month the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc , by a vote of 6-5, refused to enjoin the governme...
Monday, March 04, 2024

9th Circuit En Banc Refuses to Bar U.S. Transfer of Sacred Apache Site to Copper Mining Company

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In Apache Stronghold v. United States ,  (9th Cir., March 1, 2024), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals sitting en banc, by a vote of 6-5,...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Feds Settle Suit Brought by Native American Tribes Over Destruction of Sacred Site

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 A settlement between several federal agencies and Native American tribes in Oregon was reached last week in a case challenging the governme...
Friday, October 06, 2023

School District Settles Suit by Native Americans Over Cutting of Students' Hair

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A consent decree ( full text ) was entered this week in Johnson v. Cody-Kilgore Unified School District,  (D NE, Oct. 4, 2023). In the case,...
Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Presidential Proclamation Protects Sacred 500,000+ Acres in Nevada Under Antiquities Act

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Yesterday, President Biden issued  A Proclamation on Establishment of the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument  ( full text ). The lengthy Proclama...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Congress Passes National Defense Authorization Bill with Various Provisions Impacting Religion

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A press release  from the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee reports that on Thursday the U.S. Senate passed the James M. Inhofe National ...
Monday, December 12, 2022

9th Circuit: Native American Student's Suit Over Wearing Eagle Feather at Graduation Should Move Ahead

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 In Waln v. Dysart School District ,  (9th Cir., Dec. 9, 2022), the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals held that a free speech and free exerc...
Thursday, November 10, 2022

SCOTUS Hears Arguments in Indian Child Welfare Act Case

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Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Haaland v. Brackeen.  ( Audio and transcript of full oral arguments ). SCOTUSblog r...
Friday, October 28, 2022

Prof Who Criticized Native American Grave Repatriation Laws Can Move Ahead with Retaliation Suit

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In Weiss v. Perez , (ND CA, Oct. 19, 2022), a California federal district court allowed a tenured professor of physical anthropology at San ...
Friday, July 08, 2022

Tribal Court Dismisses Trespass Charges Against Members Holding Religious Ceremony To Block Pipeline

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An Ojibwe Tribal Court has dismissed civil trespass charges against three members of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe who took part in an 8-day ...
Friday, June 17, 2022

9th Circuit Hears Oral Arguments In Tribe's Challenge To Geothermal Project

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On Wednesday, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments in  Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe v. U.S. Department of the Interior...
Thursday, May 12, 2022

Tribe Is Required Party In Challenge To Directive On Repatriation of Native American Remains

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 In Weiss v. Perez , (ND CA, May 10, 2022), a California federal district court dismissed a suit brought by a San Jose State University anth...
Monday, February 14, 2022

Relocation Of Native American Graves Can Proceed

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In Asher v. Clay County Board of Education ,  (ED KY, Feb. 11, 2022), a Kentucky federal district court refused to enjoin a school district ...
Friday, January 21, 2022

RFRA Defense Successful For Tribal Member Charged In Protest Over Border Wall Construction

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In United States v. Ortega ,  (D AZ, Jan. 19, 2022), an Arizona federal district court reversed its earlier ruling (see prior posting ) and ...
Friday, December 17, 2021

Tribe Sues Claiming Energy Project Violates Its Religious Rights

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The Center for Biological Diversity announced yesterday: The Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe and Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S....
Monday, November 22, 2021

RFRA Defense Precluded In Prosecution of Tribal Member For Violating Closure Order

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In United States v. Ortega , (D AZ, Nov. 18, 2021), an Arizona federal district court, ruling on the government's motion in limine  to p...
Thursday, November 18, 2021

Native American Parents Can Move Ahead With Suit Challenging School's Cutting of Children's Hair

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In Johnson v. Cody-Kilgore Unified School District , (D NE, Nov. 10, 2021), a Nebraska federal district court allowed Native American parent...
Wednesday, November 17, 2021

9th Circuit Hears Arguments On Destruction of Native American Sacred Site

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Yesterday, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments ( video of full arguments ) in Slockish v. U.S. Department of Transpor...