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· 10/9/2018

Dressler v. Circuit Court for Racine Cnty.

Citations

  • 921 N.W.2d 515
  • 2018 WI 107
  • 384 Wis. 2d 774

How courts have described this case

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  • recognizing that where the executive branch had created regulations for the tribal- recognition process, Interior’s decisions about recognition and the regulations are subject to normal judicial review
  • observing that “Congress has specifically included . . . native Hawaiians . . . in certain privilege-granting statutes while specifically excluding [them] . . . from a number of oth- ers”; collecting statutes
  • affirming dismissal of challenge to a Department of Interior regulation excluding native Hawaiians .from the tribal recognition process for Indian tribes
  • analyzing whether Interior’s declaration that Part 83 precludes acknowledgment of Hawaiians is constitutional
  • rejecting an equal protection challenge brought by Native Hawaiians, who were excluded from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s regulatory tribal acknowledgement process, and concluding that the recognition of Indian tribes was political
  • rejecting an equal protection challenge brought by Native Hawaiians, who were excluded from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s regulatory tribal acknowledgement process, and concluding that the recognition of Indian tribes was political

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