Funding for Native healthcare programs, and the Armed Career Criminal Act returns

Funding for Native healthcare programs, and the Armed Career Criminal Act returns

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 The Relist Watch column examines cert petitions that the Supreme Court has “relisted” for its upcoming conference. A short explanation of relists is available here.

Since our last installment, the Supreme Court has continued slowly chipping away at the still-sizable number of lingering relists from the end-of-summer “long conference.” The court denied review in five-time relist Johnson v. Prentice, involving an Illinois prisoner’s claim that his nearly three-year term of solitary confinement constituted cruel and unusual … Read the rest

Court allows bar on Tulsa’s enforcement of municipal laws against Native Americans to remain in place

Court allows bar on Tulsa’s enforcement of municipal laws against Native Americans to remain in place

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday left in place a federal appeals court ruling that bars the city of Tulsa from enforcing municipal ordinances against Native Americans. In a brief unsigned order without any public dissents, the justices rejected the city’s request to put a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit on hold to give the city time to appeal.  

The order came in a case arising from a nearly five-year-old traffic ticket and … Read the rest