The Tribal Supreme Court Project produces periodic updates about Indian Law-related cases that have come before the US Supreme Court. Memoranda related to the current year are included below. You can find an archive of memos, starting in 2004, at the Update Memoranda Archives.

Recent Update Memoranda

October 21, 2024

July 19, 2024

January 10, 2024

October 19, 2023

Articles

General Articles

• Hope for Indian Tribes in the U.S. Supreme Court?: Menominee, Nebraska v. Parker, Bryant, Dollar General…And Beyond (Berger 2017)
• The Supreme Court’s last 30 Years of Federal Indian Law: Looking for Equilibrium or Supremacy? (Skibine 2017)
• The Utility of Amicus Briefs in the Supreme Court’s Indian Cases (Fletcher 2012)
• The Carcieri Crisis (Guest Testimony 2011)
• The Tenth Justice Lost in Indian Country (Fletcher 2011)
• Amicus Briefs in Indian Law: The Case of Plains Commerce Bank v. Long Family Land & Cattle Co. (Pommersheim 2011)
• The Supreme Court’s Treatment of Sovereigns as Amici Curiae (McAllister 2010)
• Finding the Way to Indian Country:  Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Decisions in Indian Law Cases (Goldberg 2010)
• Rebooting Indian Law in the Supreme Court (Fletcher 2010)
• Motherhood and Apple Pie:  Judicial Termination and the Roberts’ Court (FBA Article 2009)
• Factbound and Splitless: The Certiorari Process as a Barrier to Justice for Indian Tribes (Fletcher 2009)
• The Supreme Court’s Indian Problem (Fletcher 2007)
• Beyond Indian Law: The Rehnquist Court’s Pursuit of States’ Rights, Color-Blind Justice and Mainstream Values (Getches 2001)

Articles on Justices’ Indian Law Jurisprudence

• The Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson: An Indian Law Perspective (Williams 2022)
• The Nomination of Amy Coney Barrett: An Indian Law Perspective (Williams 2020)
• The Nomination of Brett Kavanaugh: An Indian Law Perspective (Williams 2018)
• The Nomination of Neil Gorsuch: An Indian Law Perspective (Guest 2017)
• Gorsuch: Summary of Indian Law Cases (Guest 2017)
• The Nomination of Merrick Garland: an Indian Law Perspective (Williams 2016)
• The Appointment of Elena Kagan:  An Indian Law Perspective (FBA Article 2010)
• The Nomination of Elena Kagan:  An Indian Law Perspective (Guest 2010)
• The Nomination of Sonia Sotomayor:  An Indian Law Perspective (Guest 2009)
• The Nomination of Samuel A. Alito:  An Indian Law Perspective (Guest 2006)
• The Nomination of John G. Roberts:  An Indian Law Perspective (Guest 2005)