Nov 28, 2023 | News
On October 5, 2023, the Arizona Court of Appeals issued a decision upholding tribal jurisdiction and refusing to expand U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in Strate v. A-1 Contractors, 520 U.S. 438 (1997). In Strate, the Supreme Court ruled that a tribal court lacked civil...
Nov 28, 2023 | News
On September 22, 2023, Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), introduced S. 2908, the Indian Buffalo Management Act. The bill would establish a permanent program within the Department of the Interior to promote and develop the capacity of...
Nov 28, 2023 | News
On October 30, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court denied the Klamath Irrigation District’s (KID) petition for certiorari of the Klamath Irrigation District v. United States Bureau of Reclamation, et al., case no. 22-1116. The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals had...
Nov 28, 2023 | News
On September 26, 2023, the Department of the Interior awarded a $3.7 million dollar grant to the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition to create a permanent collection of oral histories from survivors of the federal Indian boarding school system....
Nov 28, 2023 | News
Patterson Earnhart Real Bird & Wilson LLP is excited to announce two new additions to the team: Jane Gardner who joined the Louisville, Colorado office as a partner on October 16, 2023, and Juliette Jackson who joined the DC office as a Law Clerk on September 6,...
