Removed Tribal Members Take Their Disenrollment Challenge To High Court

Mealey's (December 30, 2016, 12:34 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should grant review of a tribal enrollment dispute to decide whether the United States is violating the Constitution and its trust responsibilities to Native Americans by allowing a minority tribal council to remove members from the tribe, stripping them of their federal recognition as Indians and rights to the tribe’s casino revenue, dozens of recently disenrolled members of a California tribe argue in a Nov. 14 petition for writ of certiorari (Tiffany L. Aguayo, et al. v. Sally Jewell, et al., No. 16-660, U.S. Sup.; 2016 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 4199)....