Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al., Petitioners v. Chad Everet Brackeen, et al.

  1. August 12, 2022

    Tribes, Feds Urge Justices To Back Indian Child Welfare Act

    Five Native American tribes and the federal government urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act, with the tribes saying Congress constitutionally used its power in the law to keep Indian families together and shield tribes from "destruction."

  2. July 18, 2022

    Native American Cases To Watch In 2nd Half Of 2022

    Native American law practitioners will be tuned in to the U.S. Supreme Court arguments on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act, while also monitoring the en banc Ninth Circuit's take on arbitration in a tribal lending case and the Seminole Tribe's bid to revive its gambling deal with Florida to pursue mobile sports betting.

  3. June 03, 2022

    Adoption Groups Back Challenge To Indian Child Welfare Act

    A nonprofit group of attorneys and adoption advocates who side with Texas in its belief that the Indian Child Welfare Act is unconstitutional have urged the U.S. Supreme Court to find that Congress doesn't have the power to preempt states' child custody and adoption laws.

  4. May 27, 2022

    Texas Asks Justices To Upend Indian Child Welfare Act

    Texas has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to rule that the Indian Child Welfare Act is unconstitutional, claiming the law is race-based and that in enacting it, Congress exceeded its powers to shape Native American affairs.

  5. February 28, 2022

    High Court To Hear Indian Child Welfare Act Case

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up four petitions challenging a highly complicated en banc Fifth Circuit decision on the Indian Child Welfare Act, with Texas and other opponents claiming the law is unconstitutionally race-based, and tribes and the federal government saying the law draws on political classifications that are backed by the high court's precedent.

  6. October 08, 2021

    25 States, DC Urge Justices To Restore ICWA

    Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to hear petitions on the Indian Child Welfare Act's constitutionality after the Fifth Circuit upheld and overturned parts of a lower court decision that found the law unconstitutional.

  7. September 09, 2021

    Interior Dept. Defends ICWA In Bid For High Court Hearing

    The U.S. Department of the Interior defended the Indian Child Welfare Act's constitutionality to the U.S. Supreme Court in a petition asking the high court to clarify a messy Fifth Circuit ruling that upheld and overturned parts of a decision finding the law unconstitutional.