The US Supreme Court today enjoys nearly unfettered discretion to choose which cases to hear via the discretionary writ of certiorari.'Various statutes enacted by Congress from 1891 …
D Epps, W Ortman - Mich. L. Rev., 2017 - HeinOnline
The Supreme Court today has nearly boundless power to decide which cases it will hear. This was not always so. Until 1891, litigants in many classes of cases could appeal to the …
ABSTRACT This Article examines the United States Supreme Court's July 9, 2020 decision in McGirt v. Oklahoma, which held that the historic boundaries of the Creek reservation …
Almost two centuries separate the statements above, yet both address the same issue: a state's authority to exercise its jurisdiction over Cherokee Nation territory lying within the …
Conflicts in the interpretation of federal law between two regional circuits of the federal courts of appeals--commonly known as" circuit splits"-have vexed the federal courts for well …
This Article tells the story of the tribal sovereign immunity doctrine. Parts of the story have been told elsewhere, but no one has yet told the full account and put tribal sovereign …
L Gale, K McClure - Yale L. & Pol'y Rev., 2020 - HeinOnline
When Alvetta James, the daughter of a Navajo medicine woman, attempted to adopt her great-nephew, baby ALM, she stepped directly into the crosshairs of a powerfully organized …
Indian Consent to American Government. 2 Professor Collins questioned whether Indian tribes ever" consented" to American government, and whether usual principles of consent …
F ederal Indian law is oftentimes characterized as a niche and dis-crete area of law, but this depiction really misstates the breadth and relevance of the field. Federal Indian law is a …