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22 May 2012, 7:45 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
An excerpt: This is an appeal from the approval of a class action settlement agreement related to the Secretary of the Interior’s breach of duty to account for funds held in trust for individual Native Americans. [read post]
11 Feb 2019, 5:27 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
Speakers include: Bethany Berger, Professor, University of Connecticut School of Law Ian Gershengorn, Chair of the Appellate and Supreme Court Practice Group at Jenner and Block Ethan Jones, Yakama Nation Monte Mills, Professor, Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana Vivien Olsen, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Colette Routel, Professor, Mitchell Hamline School of Law Joel Williams, Native American Rights… [read post]
6 Jul 2010, 9:53 am by Robb Farmer
More importantly, at 7:15, the 2010 Mersky Spirit of Law Librarianship Award for Public Service will be presented to this year's recipient: David Selden, Law Librarian at the National Indian Law Library/Native American Rights Fund. [read post]
20 Oct 2015, 8:39 am by Kate Fort
The law “demands excellence in how we treat Indian children,” said Matthew Newman, a staff attorney for the Native American Rights Fund. [read post]
7 Jun 2024, 6:38 am by Ellena Erskine
Here’s the Friday morning read: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted gifts worth millions of dollars over 20 years, analysis finds (Gabriel Cortés & Kevin Breuninger, CNBC) US Supreme Court backs insurers’ right to speak up in bankruptcy (Dietrich Knauth, Reuters) Supreme Court sides with Native American tribes in health care funding dispute with government ( Lindsay Whitehurst, The Associated Press) Retired judge David Tatel… [read post]
18 Oct 2009, 7:00 am
These rights apply only at the sufferance of Congress. [read post]
18 Nov 2007, 7:09 am
I am reminded of work on patent inventorship disputes that involve claimants other than native-born Americans who argue that cultural norms prevented them from making explicit inventorship claims.) [read post]
17 Sep 2023, 9:48 am by Robin E. Kobayashi
That is, Northern Circle’s mission is to provide housing for tribal members, whereas Affiliate’s purpose is to develop and provide housing assistance to low-income families in need of housing, and others, including “Native American families. [read post]
12 Jun 2009, 4:50 am
  The memo says that on projects receiving federal funds (this includes federal infrastructure stimulus grants), Caltrans must award at least 6.75% of contracts to women or a group composed of African-Americans, Asian-Pacific Americans, and Native Americans. [read post]
25 Jun 2011, 6:42 am by Seth Borden
 Noem wants Tribal Sovereignty protected" -- KOTA-TV "Noem seeks to restrict NLRB jurisdiction, Big Labor from tribal businesses" -- Sioux City Journal's "Politically Speaking" blog Turtle Talk blog's "NLRB" posts Native American Rights Fund's Supreme Court Project -- San Manuel   [read post]
7 Oct 2009, 8:34 am
Ethnically, 42% of the homeless are about black, 39% white, 13% Latino, 4% Native American, and 2% Asian. [read post]
31 Jul 2015, 11:27 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
But the parties did anticipate that some money might be leftover, so they included in their settlement agreement a cy presprovision, which directs that all leftover funds be distributed in equal shares to a group of charities that serve Native American farmers and ranchers that were to be chosen by Class Counsel. [read post]
12 Apr 2019, 8:15 am by Matthew L.M. Fletcher
  Strange bedfellows: Native American tribes, big pharma, and the legitimacy of their alliance. [read post]
31 Jul 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Grant’s Peace Policy, conceived in the late 1860s as a means of supplanting corrupt Indian agents, had involved actively reaching out to religious organizations, including Catholic ones, to supervise reservations, educate, and Christianize Native Americans.[15] Catholics took good advantage of the opportunity. [read post]
8 Aug 2018, 2:30 pm
In 2009, we sued CoreCivic over Native American prisoners’ complaints that the company conducted mass strip searches and prevented them from celebrating sweat lodge ceremonies. [read post]
1 Apr 2021, 11:30 am by Jamie P. Horsley
But so has a decline of American student interest in China studies and learning Mandarin Chinese. [read post]
14 Oct 2022, 6:00 am by Gene Takagi
Blow, NY Times) Why Native Americans Are Dying Sooner (Céline Gounder, Time) UNC once barred Black students. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 2:08 pm by Donna Coker
  We urge Congress to do more to address economic and racial inequalities that make poor women–particularly poor women of color, undocumented women, and Native American women, more vulnerable to intimate violence. [read post]