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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2014-06-23 8:41 PM, Paul Johnson
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style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18.200000762939453px">Supreme
Court rules for a second time that indian nations are domestic
dependent nations with inherent sovereign authority. This
affirms that indian reservations are higher than the state
level, lower than the federal level.</span><br
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<div><span
style="color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18.200000762939453px">This
sounds like the SCOTUS just reaffirmed a case for indian
reservations being tagged as admin_level=3, if we're tagging
for accurate status and not for the renderer. Thoughts?</span></div>
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href="http://www2.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Mich_v_Bay_Mills_Indian_Cmty_No_12515_US_May_27_2014_Court_Opinio">http://www2.bloomberglaw.com/public/desktop/document/Mich_v_Bay_Mills_Indian_Cmty_No_12515_US_May_27_2014_Court_Opinio</a></span></font><br>
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Having read through the decision, it's about tribal immunity for
acts outside Indian* territory.<br>
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Do you propose cutting the areas out of the states, i.e. so that IRs
are not in any admin_level=4 relations? That's what you have to do
if you're fitting IRs into the admin_level hierarchy.<br>
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* The term used in the legal case<br>
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