by Alex Wolff | Dec 13, 2019 | News
Native American women, tribes, advocacy organizations, law professors, states and members of Congress urged the Fifth Circuit on Thursday and Friday to overturn a lower court’s ruling that the Indian Child Welfare Act is unconstitutional, ahead of a full circuit...
by Alex Wolff | Dec 13, 2019 | News
Dozens of lawmakers from both parties and both chambers of Congress filed an amicus brief on Friday in federal court defending the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act, a 1978 law that’s been vital for keeping Native American communities together — but...
by Alex Wolff | Dec 13, 2019 | Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, 26 states and the District of Columbia, 77 members of Congress and more than 30 organizations filed friend-of-the-court briefs before the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) in Brackeen v....
by Alex Wolff | Dec 6, 2019 | Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, four federally-recognized Indian tribes filed a brief in Brackeen v. Bernhardt, defending the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) against unwarranted attacks on the law’s constitutionality. The four tribes are co-defendants in the case before the...
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