January 06, 2021
A California federal court refused to revisit the La Posta Band of Diegueño Mission Indians' failed attempt to block border wall construction on sacred lands, saying the U.S. government's measures to protect disputed burial grounds were sufficient to prevent potential disruption.
January 03, 2021
Native American law practitioners are anticipating U.S. Supreme Court decisions in cases dealing with tribal police authority over non-Indians and the survival of tribal health care provisions tied to Obamacare, and will be tracking the progress of litigation over the opioid crisis and tribes' opposition to the southern border wall. Here's a look at those cases and more attorneys will be keeping an eye on in 2021.
December 07, 2020
The federal government has urged a district judge to deny a California tribe's renewed bid to block President Donald Trump's border wall, saying the tribe has again failed to show irreparable harm to its burial and cultural sites after the Ninth Circuit rejected an earlier challenge.
August 31, 2020
A federal judge refused a Southern California Native American band's request to stop work on President Donald Trump's border wall during a hearing Friday, dismissing the tribe's claims that construction is upsetting historic burial grounds.
August 24, 2020
The federal government has urged a California federal court to reject a bid by the La Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians to halt construction of President Donald Trump's border wall, saying the tribe's concerns that the project threatens its ancestral burial grounds don't carry any more weight than environmental groups' objections.
August 17, 2020
Tribal nation La Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians has urged a California federal court to immediately block construction of President Donald Trump's border wall, saying the project unlawfully threatens ancestral burial grounds on the U.S.-Mexico border.
August 11, 2020
President Donald Trump's border wall construction threatens ancestral burials and sacred grounds, the tribal nation La Posta Band of Diegueno Mission Indians said Tuesday in a lawsuit in California federal court seeking to block the construction until protection of their religious practices and cultural heritage is guaranteed.