72 ABA Journal Tribal Law/Courts articles.
May 1, 2016 12:30 AM CDT
Nov 1, 2015 12:40 AM CDT
“Conversion therapy,” which seeks to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity, has been rejected by a long list of medical organizations, James J.S. Holmes told the ABA’s…
Aug 4, 2015 12:53 PM CDT
For Tom Gede, a member of the Indian Law & Order Commission, the most emotional part of the entity’s work took place in Alaska.
That was where the commission,…
Jul 30, 2015 6:56 PM CDT
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Jan 1, 2015 5:53 AM CST
The United States has agreed to pay the Navajo Nation $554 million in a record settlement with an American tribe in litigation over mismanagement of tribal resources.
The payment settles…
Sep 26, 2014 10:00 AM CDT
A Florida judge has thrown out a malpractice case brought by the Miccosukee Indian tribe alleging more than $10 million in billing fraud by two prominent Miami lawyers, the
The Cherokee Nation says in court papers filed last week that sovereign immunity protects it from efforts to collect more than $1 million in legal fees by lawyers for the…
Nov 25, 2013 7:35 PM CST
In a bitter custody dispute between a South Carolina adoptive couple and a child’s Native American birth father, the U.S. Supreme Court has sided with the adoptive parents. In Justice…
Jun 25, 2013 6:45 PM CDT
A federal judge put 19 lawyers in his Salt Lake City jury room on Monday morning and told them he hoped they would “identify genuine issues” in a nearly 40-year-old…
Jun 24, 2013 6:50 PM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear an adoption dispute involving a toddler named Veronica and an American Indian father who initially renounced his parental rights by text message.
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Oct 1, 2012 5:10 AM CDT
Kevin Washburn, dean of the University of New Mexico Law School, was recently nominated to head the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs.
A member of Oklahoma’s Chickasaw Nation, the
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