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  1. July 12, 2019

    Native American Cases To Watch In 2nd Half Of 2019

    Native American law practitioners will be keeping close tabs on the U.S. Supreme Court's reboot of a murder case with major implications for tribal jurisdiction in Oklahoma as well as on Fifth Circuit challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act and the Affordable Care Act and the first trial in the massive opioid multidistrict litigation.

  2. June 27, 2019

    High Court Wants To Hear More In Okla. Tribal Murder Case

    The U.S. Supreme Court did not release an opinion Thursday on Oklahoma's challenge to a decision throwing out a Muscogee (Creek) Nation member's state court death sentence for a murder on the tribe's reservation, instead putting the case back on its calendar for oral argument next term.

  3. January 14, 2019

    Okla., Tribe, Feds Battle Over Jurisdiction In Murder Case

    The state of Oklahoma and the federal government traded blows with the Muscogee (Creek) Nation in U.S. Supreme Court filings Friday over whether Oklahoma's statehood secured its criminal jurisdiction over tribal lands, as a Creek member seeks to preserve a Tenth Circuit ruling overturning his state murder conviction.

  4. January 01, 2019

    Native American Cases To Watch In 2019

    In the new year, Native American law practitioners will be keeping an eye on upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding Washington's ability to tax the Yakama Nation; treaty hunting rights in Wyoming; and the balance of tribal, federal and state criminal jurisdiction in Oklahoma. Here, Law360 takes a look at the cases attorneys who practice Native American law will be watching in the coming year.

  5. December 05, 2018

    Tribal Authority Key Issue As Justices Mull Okla. Reservation

    The U.S. Supreme Court has probed the federal government, the state of Oklahoma and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation on how much the tribe’s jurisdiction might expand if its historical reservation still exists, and worries that disruption in a huge part of Oklahoma could spur a ruling that hems in tribes’ criminal and civil authority over non-Indians, experts say.

  6. November 21, 2018

    Up Next At High Court: Apple's App Store, Civil Forfeiture

    The U.S. Supreme Court will return from the Thanksgiving holiday weekend Monday with a high-profile antitrust case involving Apple Inc.'s app store practices, followed by several more that present interesting questions such as whether the Eighth Amendment's clause barring excessive fines applies to the states. Here, Law360 highlights four cases that readers should know about.

  7. October 22, 2018

    Okla. Tells Justices Congress 'Destroyed' Tribal Authority

    Oklahoma has pressed the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that the Muscogee (Creek) Nation's reservation no longer exists in a case involving the state court murder conviction of a Creek citizen, saying Congress intended to "dismantle" the Creek and other Oklahoma tribes and "destroyed" their land ownership in order to create the state.

  8. September 27, 2018

    Okla. Tribe Tells Supreme Court Its Reservation Persists

    The Muscogee (Creek) Nation has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a Tenth Circuit decision that found the tribe’s reservation still exists as it overturned the Oklahoma state court murder conviction of a Creek citizen, saying claims that the decision will create jurisdictional chaos in Oklahoma are exaggerated.

  9. September 20, 2018

    Creek Reservation Survived Okla. Statehood, Justices Told

    A Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizen has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold a Tenth Circuit decision nixing his murder conviction in state court on the grounds that the killing took place within the tribe’s reservation boundaries, saying the reservation wasn’t eliminated even when Oklahoma became a state.

  10. July 30, 2018

    Groups Back Okla.'s Bid To Keep Jurisdiction In Murder Case

    The International Municipal Lawyers Association and two other groups have thrown their support behind Oklahoma's bid asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a Tenth Circuit decision nixing a Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizen's state court murder conviction and death sentence.