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Salazar v. Ramah Navajo Chapter,

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

The government must keep its promises to pay Indian tribes their full costs of providing services under contracts with the Department of the Interior.

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Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians v. Patchak

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

Because Indian Reorganization Act § 465 encompasses land's use, neighbors to the use — such as petitioner — are reasonable, predictable challengers of the Department of the Interior's land acquisition decisions, and their interests, whether economic, environmental or aesthetic, come within the statute's regulatory ambit.

United States v. Jicarilla Apache Nation

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The fiduciary exception to the attorney-client privilege does not apply to the general trust relationship between the United States and the Indian tribes.

Murray v. Plainfield Rescue Squad

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Members of the rescue squad who responded to the scene of a shooting are not entitled to protection under the Good Samaritan Act but are protected by N.J.S.A. 26:2K-29.

United States v. Navajo Nation

Thursday, April 9, 2009

The Navajo Nation's claim for compensation fails for lack of a substantive source of law establishing a duty by the secretary of the Department of the Interior to promptly approve a royalty rate increase under a 1964 coal lease.

Carcieri, Governor of Rhode Island, et al. v. Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, et al.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Because the Narragansett Tribe was not under federal jurisdiction in 1934, when the Indian Reorganization Act was enacted, the government does not have the authority to take a disputed parcel of land into trust.