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Polling sites in nine Navajo Nation communities will remain open until 9 p.m. after a series of glitches earlier in the day raised concerns that residents were not able to vote. A judge ordered ...
asking the court to import the “Jicarilla standard” that requires courts to focus exclusively on the understanding of the federal government. To do so would make the canons of construing Indian ...
In compliance with the intent of a subpoena issued by Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley, Navajo Nation ...
The Navajo Nation’s lawyers wouldn't speak on the ... many of which have not been fully settled by the courts, must be considered when the new management rules are written up.
NAVAJO NATION, N.M. — Her hands gripping the steering ... Arizona-based U.S. District Court Judge Murray Snow in 2019 rejected the claim, saying the tribe had not shown that any duty of trust ...
Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren and Speaker Crystalyne ... “And the zero-sum reality of water in the West underscores that courts must stay in their proper constitutional lane and interpret ...
Jamie Yazzie, 32, went missing in 2019 from the Navajo Nation. Her remains were found two years later. Yazzie's boyfriend, Tre C. James, was convicted of her murder. On Sept. 23, a judge sentenced ...
The suit pitted the Navajo Nation against the US government as well ... and that it is “particularly important that federal courts not do so.” “Allocating water in the arid regions of ...