Navajo Nation v. Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation et al
Case Number:
3:21-cv-08190
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Other Statutes: Administrative Procedures Act/Review or Appeal of Agency Decision
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August 23, 2023
Navajo Say Recent High Court Rulings Back Relocation Suit
The Navajo Nation said major U.S. Supreme Court rulings on its water rights and on the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act bolster the tribe's ongoing lawsuit over the federal relocation of more than 16,000 Navajos, telling an Arizona federal judge that the decisions support keeping the litigation alive.
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March 07, 2023
Navajo Nation Fights To Keep Tribal Relocation Suit Alive
The Navajo Nation keeps fighting the U.S. government's attempts to dodge the tribe's breach of trust lawsuit claiming the Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation has refused to move tribal members to areas that provide safe and sanitary housing with sufficient power and water.
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January 09, 2023
Feds Want To Nix Last Claim In Navajo Relocation Suit
Federal officials are renewing their push to escape allegations that the U.S. government shirked a decades-old pledge to help Navajo citizens relocate from land belonging to the Hopi Tribe, arguing that 1974 legislation does not require them to build entire communities for such people.
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October 21, 2022
DOI Looks To Toss Last Claim In Navajo Relocation Suit
The U.S. Department of the Interior has asked an Arizona federal judge to throw out the last standing claim in the Navajo Nation's lawsuit accusing the government of shirking a decades-old duty to help Navajo citizens relocate from land belonging to the Hopi Tribe.
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September 30, 2022
Judge Guts Navajo Nation's Suit Against Relocation Office
An Arizona federal judge has rejected the Navajo Nation's bid for him to oversee the office tasked with relocating Navajo citizens from Hopi Tribe land in northern Arizona, calling it the kind of "broad programmatic attack" against a federal agency that can't be brought in the courts.
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September 15, 2022
Ariz. Judge Says He'll Toss Navajo Relocation Suit
A federal judge in Arizona has signaled his plan to dismiss litigation in which the Navajo Nation says the U.S. government shirked a decades-old duty to help Navajo citizens relocate from land belonging to the Hopi Tribe, casting the suit as an overbroad attempt to seek federal compliance.