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Search : U.S. Supreme Court : Indian Law : From 10/01/00 To 07/01/01

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Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Indian Law
Title: NEVADA v. HICKS
Date: 06/25/01
Case Number: 99-1994
Summary: A tribal court may not assert jurisdiction over civil claims against state officials who enter tribal land to execute a search warrant against a tribe member suspected of having violated state law outside the reservation.

Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Indian Law, Property Law & Real Estate
Title: IDAHO v. US
Date: 06/18/01
Case Number: 00-189
Summary: Federal Government holds title, in trust for the Coeur dAlene Tribe, to lands underlying portions of Lake Coeur dAlene and the St. Joe River.

Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Indian Law
Title: ATKINSON TRADING CO., INC. v. SHIRLEY
Date: 05/29/01
Case Number: 00-454
Summary: The Navajo Nation's imposition of a hotel occupancy tax upon nonmembers on non-Indian fee land within its reservation is invalid.

Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Dispute Resolution & Arbitration, Indian Law
Title: C & L ENTER., INC. v. CITIZEN BAND POTAWATOMI INDIAN TRIBE OF OKLAHOMA
Date: 04/30/01
Case Number: 00-292
Summary: Where an arbitration clause in the contract proposed by the Indian Tribe specifies the enforcement of arbitral awards "in any court having jurisdiction thereof", the Indian Tribe has waived its immunity to suit in state court.

Court: U.S. Supreme Court
Topic: Civil Rights, Evidence, Indian Law
Title: DEPT. OF THE INTERIOR v. KLAMATH WATER USERS PROTECTIVE ASS'N
Date: 03/05/01
Case Number: 99-1871
Summary: Communications between Indian tribes and the Department of the Interior are not exempt under 5 USC 552(b)(5) from FOIA's disclosure requirements as "inter-agency or intra-agency memorandums or letters" because the tribes are not like paid consultants.

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