Legal & CourtsBaby Veronica
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The Fight for Veronica, Part Five (6/17/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- Dusten Brown couldn't sleep. In the early hours of April 16, 2013, he lay awake in a hotel room in Washington, D.C., contemplating the events...
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The Fight for Veronica, Part 4 (6/13/2013)
(South Carolina) -- Editor’s Note: The Baby Veronica Case, recently argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, is one of the most important Indian legal battles of the...
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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl (6/12/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- This is the story of a three-year-old girl and the highest court in the land. The Supreme Court case Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl is a legal battle...
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N.J. Sports Betting
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BRENNAN: Meet the NJ sports betting case judges (6/17/2013)
(New Jersey) -- The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals has listed its judicial panel that will hear oral argument Philadelphia on June 26 in the landmark New Jersey...
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New Jersey Sports Betting Battle Continues as Revenue Slides (6/17/2013)
(New Jersey) -- New Jersey fired back at the major sports leagues and the US Department of Justice this weekend, while at the same time posting yet another decline in...
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NJ Sports Betting Case Demonstrates Federal Online Gambling Issue (6/17/2013)
(New Jersey) -- Many gambling proponents in the United States are hoping that New Jersey prevails in its defense of legalized sports betting in the State. New Jersey...
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BRENNAN: NJ horsemen file their brief in sports betting case (6/14/2013)
(New Jersey) -- The New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association on Friday made a six-pronged argument in its response to the U.S. Dept. of Justice and the NFL...
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BRENNAN: NJ responds in NFL et al sports betting case (6/14/2013)
(New Jersey) -- Ok, here’s New Jersey’s legal brief ahead of the key June 26 oral argument at the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia:
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PokerStars
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PokerStars wants to save deal to buy Atlantic Club (6/17/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The world’s largest online poker website is appealing a judge’s ruling that cost it the right to buy an Atlantic City casino.
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PokerStars' Parent Company Files Appeal Over Atlantic Club Casino Controversy (6/17/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The Rational Group, parent company of the world’s largest online poker website (PokerStars), filed an appeal of the New Jersey Superior Court...
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BRENNAN: A closer look at that PokerStars appeal of The Atlantic Club court ruling (6/16/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- Rational Group US Holdings and Oldford Limited, parent companies of PokerStars, recently filed a Motion for Leave to Appeal of their loss in court...
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PokerStars chairman to pay us$ 50 million in US case (6/15/2013)
(New York) -- Mark Scheinberg, chairman of the Isle of Man-based PokerStars, has agreed to pay us$ 50 million to resolve forfeiture demands by the US government...
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Appeal filed in dispute over Atlantic Club casino sale (6/14/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The parent company of online global gambling giant PokerStars is appealing a ruling that allowed the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel to scrap the proposed...
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PokerStars appealing ruling that frees The Atlantic Club to woo other suitors (6/14/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- The parent company for PokerStars — the world’s largest online poker site — has appealed a court ruling that voided a preliminary...
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PokerStars Files Appeal in Atlantic Club Ruling (6/14/2013)
(Atlantic City) -- PokerStars Files Appeal in Atlantic Club RulingPokerStars has appealed a New Jersey judge’s decision that allowed the Atlantic Club casino to...
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PokerStars chief executive agrees to $50 million forfeiture (6/14/2013)
(New York) -- The chief executive of online gaming giant PokerStars agreed to forfeit $50 million to federal prosecutors to rid his himself of a two-year-old complaint...
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The Dirty Stack, Pokerstars – DoJ $50m Resolution, Industry Updates (6/13/2013)
(New York) -- On June 4th, Pokerstars CEO Mark Scheinberg signed a consent order of forfeiture of $50 million dollars in a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice.
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BRENNAN: Mark Scheinberg settlement – does this get Pokerstars back in the Atlantic City game? (6/12/2013)
(New Jersey) -- Mark Scheinberg, son of PokerStars founder Isai Scheinberg, has agreed to forfeit $50 million to end a dispute with the U.S. Government over the company...
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PokerStars Chairman In $50m Civil Settlement With U.S. Prosecutors [sub req'd] (6/12/2013)
(New York) -- Mark Scheinberg, chairman of PokerStars' parent Rational Group and acting chief of the unit plotting re-entry to the United States, has agreed to...
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PokerStars’ Scheinberg to Pay $50 Million to End U.S. Probe (6/12/2013)
(New York) -- PokerStars Chairman Mark Scheinberg agreed to forfeit $50 million to the U.S. to end prosecutors’ bid for what they claimed were proceeds of an...
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Supreme Court
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Supreme Court says states may not add citizenship proof for voter registration (6/17/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- States may not require additional proof of citizenship on federal forms designed to streamline voter-registration procedures, the Supreme Court...
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Supreme Court sides with tribes in Arizona voting rights case (6/17/2013)
(Arizona) -- The U.S. Supreme Court sided with tribal interests today in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, a voting rights case.
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ANALYSIS: Opinion recap: One hand giveth…. (6/17/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- In a ruling that might easily be misunderstood if not read very closely, the Supreme Court on Monday simultaneously strengthened Congress’s...
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Court: Ariz. citizenship proof law illegal (6/17/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- The Supreme Court ruled Monday that states cannot on their own require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal...
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Conservatives likely to write most remaining decisions in Supreme Court’s term (6/16/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- It’s time for the conservative justices on the Supreme Court to get to work. That’s not an accusation of sloth but a reflection of...
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Wetumpka Casino
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Hickory Ground Sacred Land Activists to Appear in Court Tuesday (6/17/2013)
(Alabama) -- When Wayland Gray and three other sacred land activists show up for a court hearing in Wetumpka, Alabama, on June 18, they won’t be alone. A busload...
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Muscogee Creek Delegation Travels to Wetumpka Alabama for Court Hearing (6/17/2013)
(Alabama) -- Approximately 40 members of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation are traveling from Oklahoma to Alabama to attend a court hearing for men who were arrested...
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Payday Loans
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S.D. lender that claimed tribal immunity ordered to stop making loans in Md. (6/16/2013)
(Maryland) -- State regulators have ordered a South Dakota-based payday lender to stop making consumer loans in Maryland after finding the company used predatory tactics...
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Foxwoods
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Froma Harrop: High heels and workers' rights (6/15/2013)
(Ohio) -- One of the strangest artifacts of American culture is the spiked heel as a symbol of female power. Many waitresses at America's casinos feel otherwise.
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Casino Cocktail Servers Not Thrilled With Torturous High Heel Mandate (6/12/2013)
(Connecticut) -- Casino cocktail waitresses are like modern day geishas. Forced to dress in tight dresses with a constant smile glued to their faces, they, like many...
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Foxwoods cocktail waitresses fight shoe rules (6/9/2013)
(Connecticut) -- Cheryl Haase has been serving cocktails for more than two decades, and the 52-year-old waitress says she has a list of foot ailments to prove it.
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Glendale Casino
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Tohono O'odham Nation awaits decision in casino litigation (6/15/2013)
(Arizona) -- The Tohono O'odham Nation of Arizona awaits another ruling in a lawsuit that challenges its proposed off-reservation casino.
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Tohono O’odham awaits decision from federal judge (6/12/2013)
(Arizona) -- It has now been two weeks since Federal District Court Judge David Campbell received supplemental briefs and responses to each from the plaintiffs and...
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Cayuga Indian Nation
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Cayuga Nation Submits Court Filing Regarding Oneida – New York Agreement (6/14/2013)
(New York) -- With the historic agreement between the Oneida Indian Nation and Gov. Andrew Cuomo soon to be heard by the State Legislature the Cayuga Nation has raised...
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Freedman Issue
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Cherokee hopeful seeks court order / Candidate for Tribal Council wants tribe to process freedmen applications (6/14/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- A candidate competing for a Cherokee Nation Tribal Council post is seeking a court order requiring the tribe to process all pending citizenship...
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Violence Against Women Act (VAWA)
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DOJ publishes notice of VAWA tribal jurisdiction program (6/13/2013)
(Washington D.C.) -- The Department of Justice is moving forward with tribal jurisdiction provisions of S.47, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act of 2013.
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Keystone XL Pipeline
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Judge says Keystone XL pipeline suit should go to trial (6/12/2013)
(Nebraska) -- Opponents of the Keystone XL pipeline won a round in court Tuesday when a judge turned down a request to dismiss their amended lawsuit against the state.
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Land Issues
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Mechoopda unable to fight state opposition to tribe land trust (6/12/2013)
(California) -- After 13 years of battling for a federal land trust, the Mechoopda tribe no longer has funds to fight the state Attorney General's request that the...
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Sands Corp.
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LVS asks judge to set aside Suen damages (6/12/2013)
(Las Vegas) -- Las Vegas Sands Corp has asked a Nevada judge to set aside – on a point of law – a US$101.6 million (812.4 million patacas) award in favour of...
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Las Vegas Sands Asks Court to Cancel $101.6 Million Award (6/11/2013)
(Las Vegas) -- Las Vegas Sands Corp (LVS). asked a Nevada judge to set aside a $101.6 million verdict in favor of a Hong Kong businessman who won a trial over claims...
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Las Vegas Sands appeals Suen trial verdict (6/10/2013)
(Las Vegas) -- As expected, Las Vegas Sands Corp. has asked Clark District Judge Rob Bare to either reduce drastically, throw out entirely or order a retrial of the...
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Mashpee Wampanoag
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Firm fights bid to dismiss Mass. casino suit (6/11/2013)
(Massachusetts) -- A company that filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a provision in the state's casino gambling law that gave preference to...
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Court rejects tribal intervention request in casino lawsuit (6/6/2013)
(Massachusetts) -- A federal court judge has rejected the requests by two federally-recognized tribes to intervene in a lawsuit brought by KG Urban Enterprises, a...
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Mishewal Wappo Tribe
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Court arguments in Wappo tribe case set for June 11 (6/11/2013)
(California) -- Napa County and a local Indian tribe will be giving oral arguments before a federal appellate court June 11 in San Francisco, as the county is seeking to...
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Picayune Rancheria
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Judge rules in favor of Lewis’ Chukchansi tribal council (6/11/2013)
(California) -- A Fresno judge ruled Tuesday that a Chukchansi leadership group led by Reggie Lewis has legal standing to intervene in a federal lawsuit involving the...
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BIA says Ayala won Chukchansi tribal chair (6/10/2013)
(California) -- The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs has finally stepped into the feud over control of the Picayune Rancheria of Chukchansi Indians — and its...
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Sioux City Casino
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Penn Gaming takes more legal action over Sioux City casino (6/11/2013)
(Iowa) -- The company that runs the casino riverboat in Sioux City, but lost its bid to build the new land-based casino, is taking more legal action. Penn Gaming has...
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Sheldon Adelson
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Court Blocks Adelson Subpoenas For WSJ Data On Steve Jacobs [sub req'd] (6/10/2013)
(New York) -- A New York Supreme Court judge has blocked an attempt by Las Vegas Sands chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson to force a Wall Street Journal journalist to...
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Buena Vista Casino
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Buena Vista bond offering yanked/ Federal court issues court ruling favorable to county (6/7/2013)
(California) -- A Federal judge has issued a ruling denying the Buena Vista Rancheria of Me-Wuk Indians from actively participating in Amador County’s lawsuit...
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Wampanoag Aquinnah
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Aquinnah tribe still wants in on casino case (6/7/2013)
(Massachusetts) -- The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) is rejecting a federal judge’s decision to keep the tribe from intervening in a lawsuit brought by a...
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Other News
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First Nations lawyer in Ontario paving the way for Indigenous women (6/18/2013)
(Ontario) -- Delia Opekokew holds many firsts for an Indigenous woman. Opekokew was the first First Nations woman to be called to the bar in Ontario.
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Man files appeal in murder of Indigenous woman (6/18/2013)
(South Dakota) -- Convicted murderer John Graham is making one last bid for freedom. Graham, representing himself, filed what may be his final appeal in a South Dakota...
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Theft case against Robinson Rancheria tribal chair sees delay (6/17/2013)
(California) -- The theft case against the Robinson Rancheria Pomo Indians tribal chair faced another delay on the doorstep of trial.
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Paddy Power wins appeal over London outlet (6/17/2013)
(UK) -- Paddy Power has won its appeal over Newham Council’s refusal to allow it open a betting shop on Green Street, in east London. The council had turned down...
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Supreme Court backs Oklahoma in water dispute with Texas (6/16/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Oklahoma in a water dispute with Texas that impacts tribal rights.
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Klamath irrigation shut-off begins / Tribes 'call' water rights; ranchers' stay effort denied (6/15/2013)
(Oregon) -- A judge on Friday denied motions to temporarily stop the state of Oregon from shutting off irrigation on ranches in the upper Klamath Basin to satisfy water...
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Religious imagery of Oklahoma tag wasn't considered, senator says (6/15/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- When Oklahoma looked to redesign its license plate five years ago, the iconic image of a young Apache warrior shooting an arrow skyward depicted in Allen...
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Osage Ethics Complaint (6/15/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- Osage Nation Attorney General Jeff Jones filed a formal ethics complaint against the tribe's chief Wednesday. The Native Times is reporting that Chief...
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Killer who was sentenced to death after admitting to murdering three people is RELEASED by court because crimes took place on an Indian reservation (6/15/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- A 50-year-old Oklahoma man who admitted killed three people has had his death sentence reversed because the murders happened on Native American land,...
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Tule River Justice Center work begins (6/15/2013)
(California) -- Officials with the Tule River Indian Tribe, the city of Porterville and other dignitaries gathered Friday to break ground on the more than $16 million...
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Court overturns manslaughter conviction over lack of aboriginal jurors (6/15/2013)
(Ontario) -- Ontario’s highest court has urged the province to end years of neglect by ensuring the proper representation of aboriginal people on jury rolls.
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Kennewick man to fight state lottery; says new scratch card 'misleading' (6/15/2013)
(Washington) -- A Kennewick man plans to fight the Washington State Lottery in court over a scratch card payoff that didn't pan out.
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Judge won't halt irrigation shut-off in upper Klamath Basin (6/14/2013)
(Oregon) -- A judge in Klamath Falls has denied motions to temporarily stop the state of Oregon from shutting off irrigation in the upper Klamath Basin to satisfy water...
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Ranchers ask judge to stop Oregon from shutting off irrigation (6/14/2013)
(Oregon) -- Some of the ranchers facing irrigation shutoffs in the upper Klamath Basin are asking a judge to stop state officials from enforcing newly recognized water...
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Judge says Las Vegas water pipeline decision will take some time (6/14/2013)
(Las Vegas) -- Las Vegas water officials will have to wait until later this year — if not longer — to learn the fate of their $15 billion pipeline to eastern...
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Appeals court: Christian can sue Oklahoma over Native American license plate (6/14/2013)
(Oklahoma) -- The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that a Christian man can sue the state of Oklahoma over the state’s license plate depicting a piece...
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Manslaughter conviction tossed over lack of aboriginals on jury (6/14/2013)
(Thunder Bay) -- A convicted killer will get a new trial after Ontario's top court ruled Friday the provincial government violated his rights by failing to ensure...
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No decision made on charges for Augare (6/14/2013)
(Montana) -- The Blackfeet tribe’s chief prosecutor says no decision has been made on whether to charge a state senator who fled a Glacier County sheriff’s...
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UND law marks a first with tribal court externship (6/14/2013)
(North Dakota) -- For the first time, one of the University of North Dakota law school students fanning out to summer externships with judges, courts and other parts of...
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Man pleads not guilty in child's death on Pine Ridge (6/14/2013)
(South Dakota) -- A man accused of killing a 10-month-old boy at a home on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation has pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder and...
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