Cert Denied
07-375 Aroostook Band of MicMacs v. Ryan, Patricia E., et al.
The 1st Circuit has ruled that all Maine tribes are subject to state jurisdiction under the 1980 Maine Indian Land Claims Settlement Act, even the Aroostooks, who weren't even included in the 1980 Act, and who's 1991 Act doesn't contain the "state jurisdiction" language. The people who wrote Bush v Gore couldn't be bothered.
In separate news, Alaska and Hawai'i have been ordered to relocate to the area bounded on the west the Mississippi river, and on the east by the Ohio river, in accordance with the Ordinance for the government of the territory of the United States North West of the river Ohio, which became law in 1787.
Afterthought: I suppose we Abenakis can now bring an federal cause of action against Maine for failing to subject us to state jurisdiction, since no matter when we are Federally Recognized, and no matter what the US Congress has to say about the conditions attached to a government-to-government relationship, the 1st Circuit will support the state of Maine's claim that its jurisdiction is supreme. So what's Steve Rowe's excuse for failing to paper us?
A proactive prophylactic legal pyrotechnic.
