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.
We Welcome Bree Black Horse
Bree Black Horse Joins Galanda Broadman
Galanda Broadman has grown yet again, by adding Bree Black Horse, who last month completed her clerkship for Judge Brian M. Morris in the United States District Court for Montana.
Bree joins the firm’s Seattle office as an Associate. Her practice focuses on federal court and tribal court litigation involving tribal governments, enterprises and businesses.
Law360 Interviews Anthony Broadman Re: 5 Bad Tribal Sovereignty Rulings
Anthony Broadman is quoted at length by Law360 regarding "5 Rulings That Have Sown Confusion Over Tribal Sovereignty."
As to Montana v. U.S.:
The Montana decision creates problems for tribal courts by assuming they lack jurisdiction, according to Anthony S. Broadman of Galanda Broadman PLLC.
Senator Heinrich and Congressman Grijalva Introduce the Tribal Tax Incentive for Renewable Energy Act
On July 13, Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) took another step to further allow Tribes to exert their energy autonomy by introducing the Tribal Tax Incentive for Renewable Energy Act. This Act would permit Tribal Governments to take advantage of federal renewable energy tax credits by allowing tribes to transfer their share of the production tax credit to private entities that finance joint venture renewable energy projects on tribal lands. Tribes would then be able to offer 100 percent of the tax credit to their partners. Under the current regime, the tax credit is wasted:
Disenrollment Causes Tribal Classism, Income Inequality
“One hundred fifty years ago, this was utopia — with no (social) classes, no rich, no poor, no starving people. Everyone lived together in 1,000-foot longhouses, and they knew the difference between right and wrong.” —NCAI President Brian Cladoosby, Seattle Times
Disenrollment is destroying the remaining vestiges of the American indigenous utopia.
