U.S. Tribal Law

  • The U.S. Department of the Interior, joined by oil company Slawson Exploration Co. Inc., urged a North Dakota federal court to grant it a victory in a suit claiming it wrongly opened the door to drilling on tribal land in the face of objections from the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation… Read this piece in

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  • The U.S. Supreme Court won’t get to decide if it will hear a case brought by a litigation trustee seeking to claw back $177 million transferred from a tribe-owned casino in Detroit before it went bankrupt, with the parties telling the justices that they have agreed to end the dispute… Read this piece in its

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