| 24-6955 |
In Re Dexter Leemon Johnson |
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2025-04-10 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction legal-existence state-sovereignty tribal-rights |
Whether Oklahoma's legal existence and jurisdictional status can be challenged under U.S. Constitutional precedent as a separate and potentially inval… |
| 24-5942 |
Garry Wayne Wilson v. Carrie Bridges, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-interpretation declaratory-relief federal-jurisdiction sovereign-immunity state-official tribal-rights |
Whether state sovereign immunity bars a tribal member's lawsuit seeking declaratory relief against a state official |
| 22-655 |
Dan Sulgrove, et al. v. Spokane Indian Tribe, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
article-iii article-three-standing district-court-order federal-enforcement final-judgment government-agreement judgment-amendment standing tribal-reserved-rights tribal-rights water-rights |
Whether landowners have standing to appeal a district court order approving a government agreement to amend a final judgment decreeing tribal reserved… |
| 21-913 |
Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe, et al. v. Lummi Nation, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
federal-indian-law fishing-rights geographic-boundaries maritime-boundaries native-american-law ninth-circuit treaty-interpretation treaty-precedent treaty-rights tribal-rights |
Whether the Ninth Circuit properly abrogated the long-settled and original understanding of the treaty term 'usual and accustomed grounds and stations… |
| 21-838 |
Penobscot Nation v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
alaska-pacific-fisheries indian-canons indian-canons-of-construction indian-settlement-acts maine-indian-settlement-acts penobscot-nation reservation reservation-boundaries statutory-interpretation tribal-rights |
Whether the Maine Indian Settlement Acts codify the historical understanding of the Penobscot Nation's reservation |
| 21-840 |
United States v. Aaron M. Frey, Attorney General of Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
indian-reservation land-claims maine-indian-claims-settlement-act native-american-rights natural-resources penobscot-nation settlement-act statutory-interpretation territorial-jurisdiction tribal-rights tribal-sovereignty |
Whether the Penobscot Indian Reservation includes the surrounding River |
| 21-377 |
Cherokee Nation, et al. v. Chad Everet Brackeen, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-08 |
Judgment Issued |
Response WaivedRelisted (5) |
anti-commandeering child-welfare civil-rights equal-protection indian-child-welfare-act morton-v-mancari placement-preferences spending-clause state-commandeering tribal-rights |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in invalidating ICWA provisions as impermissibly commandeering states |
| 19-1134 |
Lonny E. Baley, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
endangered-species-act federal-agency federal-reserved-water-rights fifth-amendment mccarran-amendment reclamation-act state-law state-water-law tribal-rights water-rights |
Whether federal agency regulatory action under the Endangered Species Act can constitute the adjudication and administration of water rights for triba… |
| 19-550 |
Kimberly Watso, et al. v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-law administrative-procedure chevron-deference child-services civil-rights federal-preemption indian-child-welfare-act parental-custody state-agency-rules tribal-jurisdiction tribal-rights |
Whether the lower court improperly deferred to the Indian Child Services Department Manual over state agency rules and interpretations of the Indian C… |