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No. 20-543
Vide 20-544
Title:Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, Petitioner
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
   Rehearing Denied:
  Discretionary Court Decision Date:
Questions Presented

DateProceedings and Orders
Oct 23 2020Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 25, 2020)
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Nov 04 2020Brief amicus curiae of State of Alaska filed. VIDED.
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Nov 13 2020Motion to extend the time to file a response from November 25, 2020 to December 16, 2020, submitted to The Clerk.
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Nov 16 2020Motion 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 2020Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by US Senators Lisa Murkowski, et al. VIDED.
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Nov 23 2020Brief amicus curiae of Alaska Federation of Natives filed. VIDED.
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Dec 16 2020Brief of respondents Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al., et al. in opposition filed. VIDED.
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Dec 16 2020Brief of respondents Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, et al. in opposition filed. VIDED.
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Dec 16 2020Brief of respondents Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in opposition filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
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Dec 18 2020Letter waiving the 14-day waiting period for the distribution of the petition for a writ of certiorari pursuant to Rule 15.5. filed.
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Dec 23 2020DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/8/2021.
Dec 28 2020Reply of petitioner Steven T. Mnuchin, Secretary of the Treasury filed. (Distributed)
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Jan 08 2021Motion for leave to file amici brief filed by US Senators Lisa Murkowski, et al. GRANTED.
Jan 08 2021Petition GRANTED. The petition for a writ of certiorari in No. 20-544 is granted. The cases are consolidated, and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument. VIDED.
Jan 08 2021Because 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.”
Feb 22 2021Brief of petitioner Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury filed. VIDED.
Proof of ServiceMain Document
Feb 22 2021Joint appendix filed. (Statement of costs filed 5/12/21). VIDED.
Proof of ServiceMain Document
Feb 22 2021Brief of petitioners Alaska Native Village Corporation Association, Inc., et al. filed. (in No. 20-544)
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Feb 26 2021Brief amicus curiae of State of Alaska filed. VIDED.
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Feb 26 2021Brief amici curiae of US Senators Lisa Murkowski, et al. filed. VIDED.
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Mar 01 2021Brief amicus curiae of Alaska Federation of Natives filed. VIDED.
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Mar 01 2021Brief amicus curiae of Association of Alaska Housing Authorities filed. VIDED.
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Mar 01 2021Brief amicus curiae of Cook Inlet Region, Inc. filed. VIDED.
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Mar 12 2021SET FOR ARGUMENT on Monday, April 19, 2021. VIDED.
Mar 15 2021Record requested.
Mar 16 2021The record received from the U.S. District and Bankruptcy Courts is electronic and located on Pacer.
Mar 16 2021The record from the U.S.C.A. D.C. Circuit is electronic and located on Pacer.
Mar 24 2021Brief of respondents Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al. filed. VIDED.
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Mar 24 2021Brief of respondent Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation filed. VIDED.
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Mar 30 2021CIRCULATED
Mar 31 2021Brief amicus curiae of Representative Raúl M. Grijalva filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
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Mar 31 2021Brief amici curiae of Five Indian Tribes filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
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Mar 31 2021Brief amici curiae of National Congress of American Indians, et al. filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
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Mar 31 2021Brief amici curiae of States of Utah, et al. filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
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Mar 31 2021Brief amici curiae of Professors and Historians filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
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Mar 31 2021Motion for divided argument filed by petitioners Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury. VIDED.
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Mar 31 2021Motion for divided argument filed by respondent Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation. VIDED.
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Apr 07 2021Response to motion of Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation from respondents Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al. filed. VIDED.
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Apr 09 2021Reply of petitioner Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
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Apr 09 2021Reply of petitioners Alaska Native Village Corporation Association, Inc., et al. filed (in No. 20-544). (Distributed)
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Apr 15 2021Supplemental response of the Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al. filed in support of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation motion for divided argument. VIDED.
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Apr 16 2021Motion for divided argument filed by petitioner GRANTED. VIDED.
Apr 16 2021Motion for divided argument filed by Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation DENIED. VIDED.
Apr 19 2021Argued. 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.
Apr 20 2021Letter from counsel for Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al. filed. VIDED.
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Apr 22 2021Letter of petitioners Alaska Native Village Corporation Association, Inc., et al. filed. VIDED.
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Apr 23 2021Letter of petitioner Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury filed. VIDED.
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Apr 23 2021Letter to the Clerk of the Court from the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation of Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation not accepted for filing. (April 30, 2021)
May 12 2021Letter of petitioner Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury notifying Court of April 30, 2021 Dept. of Treasury revised methodology filed. VIDED. (Distributed)
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Jun 25 2021Judgment 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 2021JUDGMENT ISSUED.

NAMEADDRESSPHONE
Attorneys for Petitioner
Paul D. Clement
    Counsel of Record		Kirkland & Ellis LLP
1301 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20004

paul.clement@kirkland.com		2023895000
Party name: Alaska Native Village Corporation Association, Inc., et al.
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
    Counsel of Record		Acting Solicitor General
United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20530-0001

SupremeCtBriefs@USDOJ.gov		202-514-2217
Party name: Janet L. Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury
Attorneys for Respondents
Nicole E. Ducheneaux
    Counsel of Record		Big Fire Law & Policy Group LLP
1404 Fort Crook South
Bellevue, NE 68005

nducheneaux@bigfirelaw.com		4064934693
Party name: Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
Riyaz Amir Kanji
    Counsel of Record		Kanji & Kantzen, PLLC
303 Detroit Street
Suite 400
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

rkanji@kanjikatzen.com		734-769-5400
Party name: Confederated Tribes of the Chehalis Reservation, et al.
Jeffrey Scott Rasmussen
    Counsel of Record		Patterson Earnhart Real Bird & Wilson LLP
1900 Plaza Drive
Louisville, CO 80027

jrasmussen@nativelawgroup.com		303-926-5292
Party name: Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation
Other
Melissa Ann Holyoak
    Counsel of Record		Utah Attorney General's Office
160 E. 300 S.
5th Floor
Salt Lake City, UT 84114

melissaholyoak@agutah.gov		5738235377
Party name: Utah
Hyland Hunt
    Counsel of Record		Deutsch Hunt PLLC
300 New Jersey Ave., NW
Suite 900
Washington, DC 20001

hhunt@deutschhunt.com		2028686915
Party name: Association of Alaska Housing Authorities
Allon Kedem
    Counsel of Record		Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
601 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20001

allon.kedem@arnoldporter.com		2029426234
Party name: Cook Inlet Region, Inc.
James Hardwick Lister
    Counsel of Record		Birch Horton Bittner and Cherot, P.C.
1100 Connecticut Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20036

jlister@dc.bhb.com		2028628368
Party name: Alaska Federation of Natives
Margaret Crow Rosenfeld
    Counsel of Record		Forman & Associates
4340 Redwood Highway, Suite E352
San Rafael, CA 94903

ann@gformanlaw.com		4154912310
Party name: Bear River Band of Rohnerville Rancheria, et al.
Colette Routel
    Counsel of Record		Mitchell Hamline School of Law
875 Summit Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105

colette.routel@mitchellhamline.edu		6512906327
Party name: Professors and Historians
Alan Evan Schoenfeld
    Counsel of Record		Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale and Dorr, LLP
7 World Trade Center, 250 World Trade Center
New York, NY 10007

alan.schoenfeld@wilmerhale.com		(212) 230-8800
Party name: Representative Raúl M. Grijalva
Kaighn Smith Jr.
    Counsel of Record		Drummond Woodsum
84 Marginal Way
Suite 600
Portland, ME 04101

ksmith@dwmlaw.com		207-772-1941
Party name: National Congress of American Indians, et al.
Christine Victoria Williams
    Counsel of Record		Outlook Law, LLC
1016 West 6th Avenue
Suite 306
Anchorage, AK 99501

christinewilliams@outlooklaw.com		9072582200
Party name: US Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, and US Congressman Don Young
Laura Emily Wolff
    Counsel of Record		The State of Alaska
1031 West 4th Ave., Suite 200
Anchorage, AK 99501

laura.wolff@alaska.gov		907-269-5100
Party name: State of Alaska

 

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