Court Cases (Page 34)

Inuit and Canadian Officials Lash Out at European Union's Seal Products Ban

Canadian, Inuit and international trade leaders alike are...

Montana's Native Vote Could Decide US Senate Control

The decision of U.S. Senator Max Baucus (D-Montana) not...

Cherokee Attorney Earns National Crime Victims' Service Award

Dianne Barker Harrold took a seven-year experience with...

Cape Wind: Justice Department Urges Swift Lawsuit Resolution Before Tax Breaks Expire

Lawyers from the Department of Justice have urged a federal...

Jim Thorpe's Sons Win Federal Lawsuit Against Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

The two surviving children of sports great Jim Thorpe won a...

Exxon Removing Section of Ruptured Arkansas Pipeline

Exxon Mobil Corp. on Monday April 15 removed 52 feet of its...

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Navajo Nation File Redistricting Lawsuit in Utah

Kelly Koepke

January 31, 2012

Citing a sense of urgency before upcoming 2012 elections and the likelihood that nothing will be done without legal action, the Navajo Nation has filed suit against San Juan County...

A Public Letter From the Cobell Lawyers Prompts Ethics and Harassment Concerns

Rob Capriccioso

January 30, 2012

Lawyers for the many plaintiffs in the class-action suit attached to the Cobell settlement took that case’s seemingly endless saga to a new low this month by writing and distributi...

Navajo Nation/San Juan County, NM Law Enforcement Tension

Kelly Koepke

January 29, 2012

Law enforcement in San Juan County, New Mexico is challenging. The county is big – more than 5,000 square miles...

RCMP Apologizes for Botched Pickton Investigation; Force Saw Inquiry Coming Back in 2000

Wawmeesh Hamilton

January 27, 2012

A dozen years after the fact, a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has apologized for the federal police’s role in botching the investigation against serial killer ...

Two Sentenced in Swastika Branding Case

ICTMN Staff

January 26, 2012

In August Paul Beebe and Jesse Sanford of Farmington, New Mexico pled guilty in the U.S...

Sexual Abuse Complaint Filed in Montana

Heather Steinberger

January 23, 2012

A law firm based in Yakima, Washington, has filed a 12-page legal complaint in Montana’s Eighth Judicial District Court on behalf of a Northern Cheyenne tribal member who is seekin...

Fraudsters Who Toppled Two Aboriginal Organizations Get Prison Time

Wawmeesh Hamilton

January 20, 2012

A British Columbia Supreme Court Judge has netted out prison sentences to two men who defrauded two aboriginal rights organizations out of nearly one million dollars...

Hate Crimes Charges Unlikely in Patty Dawson Case

Valerie Taliman

January 20, 2012

[UPDATED, JANUARY 20, LINK ADDED TO ORIGINAL STORY IN FIRST GRAPH AND VIDEO ADDED AT END] FRESNO, Calif...

Cancer-Riddled Wind River Reservation Fights EPA Over Uranium Contamination

Tristan Ahtone

January 19, 2012

Kenny Slattery has lived on the Wind River Reservation for 51 years, and just across the street from the old Susquehanna-Western uranium mill tailings pile for that entire period o...