December 20, 2019
Federal courts handed key wins to tribes in the past six months by blocking a proposed Arizona mine and requiring more Federal Communications Commission review for 5G infrastructure, but also rebuffed Native American voters' challenge to a North Dakota law and ordered the Seneca Nation to fork over casino revenue to New York. Here, Law360 looks at the significant rulings in Native American law from the second half of 2019.
August 01, 2019
A split Eighth Circuit panel has held that North Dakota was wrongly blocked from demanding that voters provide a current residential address, saying a group of Native Americans hadn't shown the requirement was too burdensome for most people.
September 24, 2018
A divided Eighth Circuit held Monday that North Dakota can enforce requirements that voters provide identification with a current residential address to establish their eligibility to vote in the upcoming general election, splitting with a lower court that enjoined parts of a state voter-identification law after finding it discriminatory against Native Americans.
July 18, 2018
The state of North Dakota on Tuesday urged the Eighth Circuit to lift a federal judge's injunction that blocked portions of a 2017 state voter identification law for discriminating against Native American voters, saying the law is constitutional and the state didn't target those voters with it.
July 03, 2018
A group of Native Americans urged the Eighth Circuit on Monday to preserve a North Dakota federal judge's injunction that blocked portions of a 2017 state voter identification law for discriminating against Native voters, saying the state had furnished no evidence of voter fraud that would justify the law.
June 11, 2018
The Eighth Circuit has refused North Dakota's bid to stay a district judge's injunction that blocked portions of a 2017 state voter identification law for discriminating against Native American voters, allowing the ruling to remain in effect through Tuesday's primary elections in the state.