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PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Webber v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security

4:25-cv-00026 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: April 4, 2025

This is one of several cases challenging President Trump’s implementation of tariffs. This case raised urgent questions about the scope of presidential authority over trade and the constitutional rights of Indigenous communities living along the U.S.–Canada border. On April 4, 2025, two members of the Blackfeet Nation—Montana State Senator Susan Webber and rancher Jonathan St. Goddard—filed suit in the United States District Court for the District of Montana against the United States, the U.S. …

Preliminary Injunction Denied

Appeal Pending

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Navajo Nation v. Reagan

3:18-cv-08329 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Nov. 20, 2018

Closed Date: Oct. 17, 2022

On November 20, 2018, Plaintiffs, a federally recognized Indian Tribe and six individual enrolled members of the Tribe, filed a verified Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, against the Arizona Secretary of State and the County Recorders and County Election Directors for three counties. Plaintiffs were represented by the Navajo Nation Department of Justice. Plaintiffs alleged that during the State of Arizona’s November 2018 Gene…

Case Dismissed (Involuntary)

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska v. Thurston County, Nebraska

8:23-cv-00020 | U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska

Filed Date: Jan. 19, 2023

Closed Date: Jan. 26, 2024

This case is about two American Indian tribes and a handful of members of each tribe who also reside in and are registered to vote in Thurston County, Nebraska challenging Thurston County’s redistricting plan for the Thurston County Board of Supervisor districts. The plaintiffs alleged that the new redistricting plan diluted the voting strength of Non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native voters and voters from the reservations of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and the Omaha Tribe of Nebra…

Settled: Case Closed

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians v. Jaeger

3:22-cv-00022 | U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota

Filed Date: Feb. 7, 2022

In this case, the Eighth Circuit held that the Voting Rights Act is not individually enforceable.  Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh has granted an administrative stay, while the Supreme Court considers a longer-lived stay pending review.  The case began as a claim of vote dilution by two Native American tribes through the "packing and cracking" of districts in North Dakota. On February 7, 2022, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and the Spirit Lake Tribe, along with individual Native A…

Injunction Granted

Reversed

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Pascua Yaqui Tribe v. Rodriguez

4:20-cv-00432 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Oct. 12, 2020

Closed Date: July 7, 2021

This case is about the Pima County Recorder’s failure to re-establish an in-person early voting location on the Pascua Yaqui Pueblo Reservation ahead of the 2020 general election. On October 12, 2020, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona (Tucson). The Tribe sued the Pima County Recorder under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, 52 U.S.C. § 10301, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The Tribe alleged that refusing to reinstate an early voting site on…

Settled: Case Closed

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Yazzie v. Hobbs

3:20-cv-08222 | U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

Filed Date: Aug. 26, 2020

Closed Date: Jan. 6, 2021

In this case, six plaintiffs, all tribal members of Navajo Nation, challenged the constitutionality of Arizona’s requirement that Vote By Mail (“VBM”) ballots be received, not postmarked, by 7:00 PM of Election Day.  This case was filed on August 26, 2020 in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona and assigned to Chief District Judge G. Murray Snow. The plaintiffs, represented by out-of-state private attorneys at Big Fire Law & Policy Group LLP, sued the Secretary of State …
PRESIDENTIAL/GUBERNATORIAL AUTHORITY
Pueblo of Isleta v. Secretary of the Department of the Interior

1:25-cv-00696 | U.S. District Court for the District of District of Columbia

Filed Date: March 7, 2025

This case challenged the Bureau of Indian Education’s (BIE) reorganization/restructuring and reduction of staff at BIE’s central and regional offices and the two BIE-operated post-secondary institutions—Haskell Indian Nations University and Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI)—in February 2025. (To see the Clearinghouse's collection of civil-service-related legal challenges to actions by the second Trump Administration, click here.) In February 2025, without consulting with federally-r…

Case Is Ongoing

ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Citizens For Fair Representation v. Padilla

2:17-cv-00973 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California

Filed Date: May 8, 2017

Closed Date: Dec. 14, 2020

This is a case alleging that California's limit on the number of state legislators violated California citizens' right to self-governance.  On May 8, 2017, Citizens for Fair Representation, a nonprofit voting rights organization, along with several local government entities, political parties, an unrecognized Native American tribe, and several individual California voters, filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California (Sacramento) against the California Se…
ELECTION/VOTING RIGHTS
Blackfeet Nation v. Stapleton

4:20-cv-00095 | U.S. District Court for the District of Montana

Filed Date: Oct. 9, 2020

Closed Date: Oct. 15, 2020

This case concerns the constitutionality of the voter registration and polling locations provided by the State of Montana that are accessible to the members of the Blackfeet Nation. On October 9, 2020, the Blackfeet Nation on behalf of its members filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Montana against Corey Stapleton, in his official capacity as Montana Secretary State; Pondera County, Montana; Kody Farkell, in her official capacity as Pondera County Clerk and Recorder/E…
PUBLIC BENEFITS/GOVERNMENT SERVICES
National Urban League v. Ross

5:20-cv-05799 | U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Filed Date: Aug. 18, 2020

Closed Date: April 22, 2021

On August 18, 2020, a coalition of cities, counties, Indian tribes, advocacy organizations, and individuals represented by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, the Brennan Center for Justice, and the law firm Latham & Watkins LLP sued the U.S. Department of Commerce (“Department”), the Department Secretary, the U.S. Census Bureau (“Bureau”), and the Bureau Director in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants violated the U.S…