Court Cases (Page 43)

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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Woman’s Sentence Reduced to Eight Years for Selling $31 of Pot

Wilhelm Murg

October 05, 2011

In October of 2010, Patricia Marilyn Spottedcrow, a 25-year old Cheyenne woman with four young children, was sentenced to 12 years in an Oklahoma prison for selling $31 worth of ma...

Legal Distinction Between Class II and III Gaming Causes Innovation, Anguish

Rob Capriccioso

October 04, 2011

More than 20 years after the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) became federal law, the three-tier class system it created is still evolving, often in ways that no one could have ...

Widespread Support for Gun Lake’s Trust Land

Gale Courey Toensing

October 03, 2011

Local governments, business groups and agencies in and around Allegan County, Michigan, where the Gun Lake Tribe has its casino have urged the U.S...

Fallout Persists from Spring Floods in Manitoba

ICTMN Staff

October 01, 2011

Months after spring floods have receded, some Manitoba First Nations are still displaced, leading two of them to file suit and one to request barracks housing through the winter...

Wade Blackmon Joins Firm’s Growing New York Office

ICTMN Staff

September 30, 2011

On September 22, Wade Blackmon was announced as the newest member of the Native American Team at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, further expanding the firm’s growing New York o...

Aquinnah Wampanaog Tribe Wins $567,236 DoJ Grant

Gale Courey Toensing

September 29, 2011

The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) has won a $567,236 competitive grant for its judiciary department from the federal Department of Justice ...

Montana Catholic Church, Ursulines Face Sexual-Abuse Charges

Stephanie Woodard

September 28, 2011

On Tuesday, September 27, Tamaki Law of Yakima, Washington, and Morales Law Office of Missoula, Montana, filed a complaint against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Helena (Montana) an...

Galanda Broadman Adds Ryan Dreveskracht to Growing Staff

ICTMN Staff

September 27, 2011

Prolific legal scholar and former U.S...

Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Weekly Roundup – September 19 – 25

Carol Berry

September 26, 2011

Beginning this week Indian Country Today Media Network is introducing a weekly roundup from court cases that have been heard by the U.S...

Oneida Land Claims, Quiet Title Act among Supreme Court’s Fall Petitions

Gale Courey Toensing

September 22, 2011

Matthew Fletcher’s Turtle Talk legal blog has posted a preview of the Indian law cases that will come before the U.S. Supreme Court for selection this term...