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1000 CASS COUNTY V. LEECH LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS, 524 U.S. 103 (1998)
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1000 INYO COUNTY V. PAIUTE-SHOSHONE INDIANS OFBISHOP COMMUNITY OF BISHOP COLONY
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1. Whether the doctrine of tribal sovereign immunity enable Indians tribes, their gambling casinos and other commercial businesses to prohibit the searching of their property by law enforcement officers for criminal evidence pertaining to the commission of off-reservation State crimes, when the search is pursuant to a search warrant issued upon probable cause. 2. Whether such a search by State law enforcement officers constitutes a violation of the tribe's civil rights that is actionable under 42 U.S.C. 1983. 3. Whether, if such a search is actionable under 42 U.S.C. 1983, the State law enforcement officers who conducted the search pursuant to the warrant are nonetheless entitled to the defense of qualified immunity.
1000 MONTANA V. CROW TRIBE OF INDIANS, 523 U.S. 696 (1998)
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1000 CASS COUNTY V. LEECH LAKE BAND OF CHIPPEWA INDIANS, 524 U.S. 103 (1998)
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810 INYO COUNTY V. PAIUTE-SHOSHONE INDIANS OFBISHOP COMMUNITY OF BISHOP COLONY
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1. Whether the doctrine of tribal sovereign immunity enable Indians tribes, their gambling casinos and other commercial businesses to prohibit the searching of their property by law enforcement officers for criminal evidence pertaining to the commission of off-reservation State crimes, when the search is pursuant to a search warrant issued upon probable cause. 2. Whether such a search by State law enforcement officers constitutes a violation of the tribe's civil rights that is actionable under 42 U.S.C. 1983. 3. Whether, if such a search is actionable under 42 U.S.C. 1983, the State law enforcement officers who conducted the search pursuant to the warrant are nonetheless entitled to the defense of qualified immunity.
793 MONTANA V. CROW TRIBE OF INDIANS, 523 U.S. 696 (1998)
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659 MINNESOTA V. MILLE LACS BAND OF CHIPPEWAINDIANS
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593 DEPARTMENT OF TAXATION & FINANCE OF NEW YORK V. MILHELM ATTEA & BROS., 512
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593 UNITED STATES V. CLEVELAND INDIANSBASEBALL CO.
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Back wages are subject to FICA and FUTA taxes by reference to the year the wages are in fact paid.
593 UNITED STATES V. LARA
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Whether Section 1301, as amended, of the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, 25 U.S.C. 1301, validly restores an Indian tribe's sovereign power to prosecute members of other tribes, such that a federal prosecution following a tribal prosecution for an offense with the same elements is valid under the Double Jeopardy Clause of the 5th Amendment.
555 WAGNON V. PRAIRIE BAND POTAWATOMI NATION
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555 SOUTH FLA. WATER MANAGEMENT DIST. V.MICCOSUKEE TRIBE
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Whether the South Florida Water Management District's longstanding practice of pumping accumulated water from a water collection canal to a water conservation area within the Florida Everglades constitutes an addition of a pollutant from a point source for purposes of Section 402 the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1342, where the water contains a pollutant but the pumping station source itself adds no pollutants to the water being pumped?
555 SOUTH DAKOTA V. YANKTON SIOUX TRIBE, 522 U.S. 329 (1998)
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512 SOUTH DAKOTA V. BOURLAND, 508 U.S. 679 (1993).
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458 NEGONSOTT V. SAMUELS, 507 U.S. 99 (1993).
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458 HAGEN V. UTAH, 510 U.S. 399 (1994).
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395 OKLAHOMA TAX COMM'N V. CHICKASAW NATION, 515 U.S. 450 (1995).
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395 UNITED STATES V. NAVAJO NATION
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Under United States v. Mitchell, 445 U. S. 535, and United States v. Mitchell, 463 U. S. 206, the Navajo Tribe's claim for compensation from the Government based on the Interior Secretary's actions with respect to a coal lease between the Tribe and a private lessee fails, for it does not derive from any liability-imposing provision of the Indian Mineral Leasing Act of 1938 or its implementing regulations.
395 ALASKA V. NATIVE VILLAGE OF VENETIE TRIBAL GOVERNMENT, 522 U.S. 520 (1998)
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395 STRATE V. A-1 CONTRACTORS, 520 U.S. 438 (1997).
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395 LINCOLN V. VIGIL, 508 U.S. 182 (1993).
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395 OKLAHOMA TAX COMM'N V. POTAWATOMI TRIBE, 498 U.S. 505 (1991)
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395 CITY OF SHERRILL V. ONEIDA INDIAN NATION OF N. Y.
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312 UNITED STATES V. MEZZANATTO, 513 U.S. 196 (1995).
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312 CHICKASAW NATION V. UNITED STATES
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The Indian Regulatory Gaming Act provision codified at 25 U. S. C. §2719(d)(i) does not exempt tribes from paying the gambling-related taxes imposed by chapter 35 of the Internal Revenue Code.
197 ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE V. DUKE ENERGY CORP.
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197 ATKINSON TRADING CO. V. SHIRLEY
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The Navajo Nation's imposition of a hotel occupancy tax upon nonmembers on non-Indian fee land within its reservation is invalid.
197 UNITED STATES V. WHITE MOUNTAINAPACHE TRIBE
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Public Law 86-392 gives rise to Indian Tucker Act jurisdiction in the Court of Federal Claims over respondent Tribe's suit for money damages against the United States for breach of a fiduciary duty to manage Fort Apache land and improvements held in trust for the Tribe but occupied by the Government.
197 GREATER NEW ORLEANS BROADCASTING ASSN., INC.V. UNITED STATES
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197 RICE V. CAYETANO
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Whether the court of appeals erred in holding that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution permit the adoption of an explicitracial classification that restricts the right to vote in statewide elections for state officials.
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