Save the Date: The Federal Bar Association’s Indian Law Conference will be held April 19-20, 2012.

Professor Robert Clinton was reappointed by the Hopi Tribal Council as an Associate Justice of the Hopi Appellate Court for a 3 year term and reappointed by the Hualapai Tribal Council as an Associate Justice of the Hualapai Tribal Court of Appeals for 1 year term.

Colorado River Indian Tribes – Job Opening for a Deputy Attorney General – Criminal Prosecution (Contractual Position) Click here to view!

Great News! Professor Tsosie will stay at ASU! Last week Professor Tsosie sent a note to the Advisory Council, students and alumni stating she will stay at ASU with a slightly reconfigured faculty and administrative role that allows her greater participation at the University level. Patty Ferguson-Bohnee will assume the title of Executive Director on July 1 and Professor Tsosie will be working with her and the other faculty and staff of the ILP on designing the next phase of the Program’s development, which will more fully engage the University’s mission and vision for the future.

Please see the attached order and injunction issued yesterday by Judge Campbell in the federal district court case regarding the Tohono O’odham land into trust issue in Glendale. The Judge has enjoined Interior from taking the land into trust and enjoined Glendale’s annexation of Parcel 2 until the matter is decided by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

http://turtletalk.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/injunction-in-gric-v-united-states-05-03-2011.pdf

Tohono O’odham v. Glendale, 1 CA-CV 10-0341 (Ariz. App. May 3, 2011)

The Arizona Court of Appeals issued a decision yesterday reversing summary judgment on the annexation issue:

Excerpt:

The Tohono O’odham Nation (“Nation”) appeals the grant of summary judgment to the City of Glendale (“Glendale”) on Nation’s challenge to Glendale’s purported annexation of real property owned by Nation. For the reasons that follow, we hold that when the validity of a municipality’s annexation ordinance is timely challenged in court, the annexation does not automatically become final thirty days after the ordinance was adopted. Accordingly, we reverse the grant of summary judgment in favor of Glendale and remand for entry of judgment in favor of Nation.

Get the decision: http://azcourts.gov/Portals/89/opinionfiles/CV/CV100341.pdf.

Watch Professor Artman and President Enos on Horizon speak about Economic Development for Indian Country. Click here to View Episode!
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Congratulations to Melissa Dempsey, JD Candidate 2011 and Editor-in-Chief the Law Journal for Social Justice. They have published the journal’s first edition!!!

http://www.law.asu.edu/ljsj/LawJournalforSocialJusticeatASU/LJSJEditions/20102011.aspx

Congratulations to Sean Cahill and Allison Binney! ASU student Sean Cahill was selected the 3L of the Year and ASU alumnus Allison Binney (’00) was selected Alumni of the Year by the National Native American Law Students Association. Winners were announced last week at the Federal Bar Association’s Indian Law Conference. Sean was nominated by ASU NALSA for his leadership within the local chapter. Alison Binney (’00) was nomiated by ASU NALSA because of her leadership at the Senate Committee of Indian Affairs and the support and mentorship she given our students.