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. |