School Workers’ Row Sent To Tribal Commission By Split 9th Circuit

Mealey's (June 30, 2017, 2:39 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A divided Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 28 sent an employment dispute involving two school districts on tribal land back to the tribe’s labor commission to decide whether it has jurisdiction to decide the employees’ claims for merit pay and violation of the tribe’s hiring preference law (Window Rock Unified School District, et al. v. Ann Reeves, et al., No. 13-16278, 9th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 11503)....