People Ex Rel. A.G.-G.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding school records indicating father is Indian is not sufficient evidence; also stating evidence is not adequate where parents tell caseworker of their Indian heritage and no tribal information is available
• “[E]ach [Native American] tribe has the authority to determine its membership criteria and to decide who meets those criteria.”
• after no tribe responded to notice given to BIA, party asserting applicability has burden to show child is “Indian child” under ICWA
• “Until the party asserting the applicability of the ICWA establishes, on the record, that the child [is an Indian child], the ICWA is not applicable.”
• “Until the party asserting the applicability of the ICWA establishes, on the record, that the child [is an Indian child], the ICWA is not applicable.”
• “Until the party asserting the applicability of the ICWA establishes, on the record, that the child [is an Indian child], the ICWA is not applicable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).