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Jenner & Block

Amicus Brief Filed on Behalf of the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe Urging SCOTUS to Protect Tribal Sovereignty

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Jenner & Block filed an amicus brief before the Supreme Court of the United States on behalf of the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe in South Point Energy Center LLC v. Arizona Department of Revenue. The brief calls on the Court to...more

Snell & Wilmer

Supreme Court Grants Certiorari to Determine Whether the Bankruptcy Code Waives Sovereign Immunity of Native American Tribes

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On January 13, 2023, the Supreme Court granted the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians’ Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to resolve the split of circuits on whether Section 106 of the Bankruptcy Code...more

Sullivan & Worcester

Sullivan Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief with former State Department Legal Adviser in Nazi-looted Art Case

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Today I am pleased to announce that I have filed a brief in the Supreme Court of the United States as counsel of record for amicus curiae Mark B. Feldman, former U.S. Department of State Acting Legal Adviser. We filed the...more

Ballard Spahr LLP

State AGs file amicus brief in Fourth Circuit case involving use of sovereign immunity by tribal lenders to defeat state law...

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A coalition of 14 state Attorneys General and the D.C. Attorney General have filed an amicus brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Williams v. Big Picture Loans in which a tribal lender and its tribal...more

Cozen O'Connor

State AGs And SCOTUS: Term Preview

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State Attorneys General (“AGs”) continue to be active as both litigants and amici in cases before the U.S. Supreme Court. This term there are several cases with significant State AG amici involvement that implicate important...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Amicus Briefs Filed in Mohawk Tribe's Motion to Dismiss IPRs

In what everyone (including the Patent Trial and Appeal Board) considers an unprecedented administrative action, the PTAB late last year set our an order (Patent Trial and Appeal Board's Order, 2017 WL 5067421, P.T.A.B. Nov....more

Knobbe Martens

Amicus Curiae Briefs Authorized on Tribal Sovereign Immunity in IPRs of Restasis® Patents

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The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe’s recent motion to terminate pending IPRs on patents purported to cover Allergan’s Restasis® product has spurred two parties to seek authorization from the PTAB to file amicus briefs. Earlier this...more

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