Bree Black Horse is chipping in to help her alma mater, the Seattle University School of Law, and its Center for Indian Law & Policy. Bree has been appointed to the Center's advisory Council, and is helping teach legal writing along with Professor Eric Eberhard to the incoming American Indian Law Journal cohort. Bree co-founded the American Indian Law Journal and served as its Editor-in-Chief during law school. Her father and fine artist Terrance Guardipee designed and gifted the ledger art, The Spirit of Justice, that depicts the Center.
Gabe Galanda's Anti-Disenrollment Advocacy Featured by "Best Lawyers"
It was not long ago when legal journals would not pay any attention to tribal disenrollment controversy. Today mainstream legal journals like Law360 and Courthouse News Service write on the subject.
Tribes: Banish Drug Dealers, Sparingly, But Don't Disenroll
This summer a number of tribes, including the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, Spirit Lake Tribe of North Dakota, and Blackfeet Tribe of Montana, have resuscitated the penal tradition of banishment to eradicate member drug dealers from their lands and to deter others from selling drugs there.
Bree Black Horse Featured In Indian Gaming Magazine
Bree Black Horse is an Associate in the Seattle office. Bree's practice focuses on federal court and tribal court litigation involving tribal governments, enterprises and businesses. She can be reached at (206) 735-0448 or bree@galandabroadman.com.
Anthony Broadman Amicus Brief Supports Anti-Sex Trafficking Supreme Court Win
Today the Washington State Supreme Court ruled that the website Backpage.com can be sued in state court by three girls who claim it aided in their being “bought and sold” as prostitutes, as reported by the Seattle Times. Anthony Broadman served as local amicus counsel in the case, J.S., S.L., & L.C. v. Village Voice Media Holdings, L.L.C., on behalf of the Coalition Against Trafficking In Women (CATW).
Puget Sound Business Journal Profiles Gabe Galanda Re: Boutique Law Firm Success
For its 12th Annual Law Guide, Puget Sound Business Journal features Gabe Galanda in a piece published this week titled, "Is bigger really better? Some lawyers don’t think so. They’ve opened boutique firms with niche practice areas." The lead:
Bree Black Horse Presents To American Indian Law Journal Students
On Friday, Bree Black Horse gave the incoming cohort of American Indian Law Journal students at the Seattle University School of Law, her advice about the importance of scholarship in the field of Indian law, and how the Journal's work serves practitioners and informs the courts.
Gabe Galanda Named Among America's Best Lawyers for 10th Consecutive Year
Gabriel “Gabe” Galanda has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 2016 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® in the practice areas of Gaming Law and Native American Law, for the tenth consecutive year. He has now been selected to The Best Lawyers in America® from 2007 to 2016.
Tribal Disenrollment, Donald Trump, and the Anti-Birthright Citizenship Movement
The Citizenship Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution states that:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.
In other words, if you are born in America, you are a citizen; American citizenship is a birthright.
