Indian Nations Law Update January 2021
Friday, January 29, 2021 In Mitchell v. Bailey, 2020 WL 7329219 (5th Cir. 2020), the Hoopa Valley Tribe (Hoopa Valley) had created the AmeriCorps Hoopa Tribal Civilian Community Corps (Tribal CCC) with a federal grant. Following severe floods and the resulting federal disaster declaration covering certain Texas counties, several AmeriCorps Disaster Response Teams, including Hoopa Tribal CCC, were deployed to Wimberley, Texas. Mitchell, a non-Indian resident of Texas, was injured while participating in the Wimberley disaster relief efforts, allegedly as a result of negligence cause...
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