No. 20-544
Vide 20-543
 
Title: Alaska Native Village Corporation Association, Inc., et al., Petitioners
v.
Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al.
Docketed: October 26, 2020
Lower Ct: United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
   Case Numbers: (20-5204, 20-5205, 20-5209)
   Decision Date: September 25, 2020
Questions Presented
 
Proceedings and Orders
Oct 21 2020 Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 25, 2020)
Nov 04 2020 Brief amicus curiae of State of Alaska filed.
Nov 13 2020 Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 25, 2020 to December 16, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
Nov 16 2020 Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including December 16, 2020, for all respondents.
Nov 18 2020 Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by US Senators Lisa Murkowski, et al. VIDED.
Nov 23 2020 Brief amicus curiae of Alaska Federation of Natives filed. VIDED.
Dec 16 2020 Brief of respondents Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al., et al. in opposition filed. VIDED.
Dec 16 2020 Brief of respondents Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, et al. in opposition filed. VIDED.
Dec 16 2020 Brief of respondents Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in opposition filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
Dec 22 2020 Letter waiving the 14-day waiting period for the distribution of the petition for a writ of certiorari pursuant to Rule 15.5. filed.
Dec 23 2020 DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/8/2021.
Dec 23 2020 Reply of petitioners Alaska Native Village Corporation Association, Inc., et al. filed. (Distributed)
Jan 08 2021 Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by US Senators Lisa Murkowski, et al. GRANTED.
Jan 08 2021 Petition GRANTED. The petition for a writ of certiorari in No. 20-543 is granted. The cases are consolidated, and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument. VIDED.
Jan 08 2021 Because the Court has consolidated these cases for briefing and oral argument, future filings and activity in the cases will now be reflected on the docket of No. 20-543. Subsequent filings in these cases must therefore be submitted through the electronic filing system in No. 20-543. Each document submitted in connection with one or more of these cases must include on its cover the case number and caption for each case in which the filing is intended to be submitted. Where a filing is submitted in fewer than all of the cases, the docket entry will reflect the case number(s) in which the filing is submitted; a document filed in all of the consolidated cases will be noted as “VIDED.”
Mar 12 2021 SET FOR ARGUMENT on Monday, April 19, 2021. VIDED.
Mar 15 2021 Record requested.
Mar 16 2021 The record received from the U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts is electronic and located on Pacer.
Mar 16 2021 The record from the U.S.C.A. D.C. Circuit is electronic and located on Pacer.
Mar 30 2021 CIRCULATED
Mar 31 2021 Amicus brief of Professors and Historians not accepted for filing. (April 28, 2021--to be filed in lead case No. 20-543)
Apr 19 2021 Argued. For petitioner in 20-543: Matthew Guarnieri, Assistant to the Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. For petitioners in 20-544: Paul D. Clement, Washington, D. C. For respondents: Jeffrey S. Rasmussen, Louisville, Colo. VIDED.
Jun 25 2021 Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Sotomayor, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Breyer, Kavanaugh, and Barrett, JJ., joined, and in which Alito, J., joined as to Parts I, II–C, II–D, III, and IV. Gorsuch, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Thomas and Kagan, JJ., joined. VIDED.
Jul 27 2021 JUDGMENT ISSUED.
Attorneys
Attorneys for Petitioners
Paul D. Clement
Counsel of Record
Clement & Murphy, PLLC
706 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314

PAUL.CLEMENT@CLEMENTMURPHY.COM
Ph: (202) 742-8900
Party name: Alaska Native Village Corporation Association, Inc., et al.


Attorneys for Respondents
Nicole E. Ducheneaux
Counsel of Record
Big Fire Law & Policy Group
1905 Harney Street Suite 300
Omaha, NE 68102

nducheneaux@bigfirelaw.com
Ph: 531-466-8725
Party name: Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe


Brian H. Fletcher
Counsel of Record
Acting Solicitor General
United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

SupremeCtBriefs@USDOJ.gov
Ph: 202-514-2217
Party name: Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury


Riyaz Amir Kanji
Counsel of Record
Kanji & Kantzen, PLLC
PO Box 3971
Ann Arbor, MI 48106

rkanji@kanjikatzen.com
Ph: 734-769-5400
Party name: Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al., et al.


Jeffrey Scott Rasmussen
Counsel of Record
Patterson Earnhart Real Bird & Wilson LLP
1900 Plaza Drive
Louisville, CO 80027

jrasmussen@nativelawgroup.com
Ph: (303) 926-5292
Party name: Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation


Other Attorneys
Colette Routel
Counsel of Record
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
875 Summit Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105

colette.routel@mitchellhamline.edu
Ph: 6512906327
Party name: Professors and Historians


Christine Victoria Williams
Counsel of Record
Outlook Law, LLC
1016 West 6th Avenue
Suite 306
Anchorage, AK 99501

christinewilliams@outlooklaw.com
Ph: 9072582200
Party name: US Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and US Congressman Don Young


James Hardwick Lister
Birch Horton Bittner and Cherot, P.C.
1100 Connecticut Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20036

jlister@dc.bhb.com
Ph: 2026595800
Party name: Alaska Federation of Natives


Laura Emily Wolff
The State of Alaska
1031 4th Ave., Suite 200
Anchorage, AK 99501

laura.wolff@alaska.gov
Ph: 9072696612
Party name: State of Alaska