Well, we’ve gone through 12 match-ups. Voters are holding up without too much complaining. Here’s the final series of the initial round of 32:
Match-up No. 13
(2) The Kansas Indians (72US737) — Tax case giving real-world life to the Worcester holding about state law
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(31) Cherokee Nation v. Leavitt (543US631) — First win in the ISDEAA contract support costs war
Match-up No. 14
(15) United States v. Wheeler (435US313) — Recognition of inherent tribal authority to prosecute Indians as a separate sovereign
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(18) White Mountain Apache Tribe v. Bracker (448US136) — State law cannot touch FATCO; origin of Bracker preemption test
Match-up No. 15
(7) Williams v. Lee (358US217) — Indians have right to make own laws and be ruled by them
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(26) California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians (480US202) — State laws can’t touch tribal bingo
Match-up No. 16
(10) Choctaw Nation v. Oklahoma (397US620) — Arkansas riverbed rights
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(23) Solem v. Bartlett (465US463) — “Fairly clear analytic structure” for disestablishing a reservation near you
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