Navajo Nation v. United States Forest Service is set for this week’s conference. From SCOTUSblog:
Docket: 08-846
Title: Navajo Nation, et al. v. United States Forest Service, et al.
Issue: Whether a governmental action cannot constitute a “substantial burden” under RFRA unless it forces individuals to choose between following the tenets of their religion and receiving a governmental benefit or coerces them by threatening civil or criminal sanctions to act contrary to their religious beliefs.
- Opinion below (9th Circuit)
- Petition for certiorari
- Brief in opposition
- Brief in opposition (federal respondents)
- Petitioner’s reply
- Brief amicus curiae of Religious Liberty Law Scholars (in support of petitioners)
- Brief amicus curiae of The Friends Committee on National Legislation et al. (in support of petitioners)
- Brief amicus curiae of National Congress of American Indians et al. (in support of petitioners)
[Akin Gump and Howe and Russell represent the petitioners]
American Indian Tribal Law
Facing the Future: The Indian Child Welfare Act at 30
Federal Indian Law: Cases and Materials (6th ed.)
The Eagle Returns: The Legal History of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians
The Indian Civil Rights Act at Forty
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