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8:45-9:00am ET Welcome and Announcements
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9:00-10:15am ET Shifting the Balance of Power: Self Governance and Consultation
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Rob Roy Smith, Partner, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Geoff Strommer, Partner, Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP
Debrah Gee, Navajo Nation and Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Chief Counsel for the Chickasaw Nation Office of Tribal Justice Administration
10:15-10:30 Break
10:30-11:45am ET Party or Amicus? Deciding When Your Tribal Nation Should Participate in Litigation
Paul Spruhan, Assistant Attorney General, Navajo Nation DOJ
Chrissi Nimmo, Cherokee Nation, Deputy Attorney General for Cherokee Nation
Meghan Topkok, Iñupiaq, Staff Attorney for Kawerak, Inc.
11:45-12:45pm Lunch
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Materials
Motion in the Adoptive Couple case
Amicus Cherokee Nation filed:
SCOTUS Castro-Huerta (McGirt): Cherokee Nation only
SCOTUS Murphy/McGirt: Cherokee Nation lead, joined by others
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SCOTUS Cooley: Joined other tribes
Amicus Cherokee Nation Declined:
Amicus we declined: 21-1226 Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, et al. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of MI (Sixth Circuit)
Intervention instead of Amicus:
Intervention sought but denied (even though court found us required party): Oklahoma v. Tyson
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12:45-2:00pm ET Advocacy Strategies: The Law Clerk Perspective
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Moderator: Rodina Cave Parnall, Pre-Law Summer Institute Director, American Indian Law Center, Inc.
Lydia Locklear, Deputy Tribal Attorney for the Catawba Nation
Joaquin Ray Gallegos, Judicial Clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Alexander Mallory, Alexander Mallory, Judicial Clerk
U.S. District Court, District of Arizona
Roshanna Toya, Judicial Clerk for the New Mexico Court of Appeals
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2:00-2:15 Break
2:15-3:30pm ET Egregious Misconduct
Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center, Michigan State University College of Law
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Material:
Egregious Misconduct Comic Book (Fletcher)
3:30 End of Conference
