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Steven J. Gunn

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Associate Professor of Law

Expertise: American Indian law, Federal Indian law, tribal courts, tribal law

Bio: Gunn, an expert on American Indian law, has extensive experience in public interest litigation and has written numerous articles on Indian law and on the intersection of poverty and law and economics. Prior to becoming a professor, Gunn was a staff attorney for the Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association, where he represented low-income individuals and families in housing, public benefits, and disability discrimination cases. Before that, Gunn was a Skadden Fellow at the Indian Law Resource Center in Washington, D.C., where he represented American Indian tribes in actions to protect their land, resources, rights, and cultural heritage. As part of his Skadden Fellowship, Gunn lived and worked for a year on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where, among other things, he represented the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and its members in two major federal lawsuits.

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Major Indian law victory

School of Law and Leading St. Louis Law Firm help South Dakota Indian tribe defend its sovereignty (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/9664.html)

June 28, 2007 -- The School of Law's American Indian Law and Economic Development Program and the St. Louis law firm of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal have garnered an important legal victory concerning the sovereignty of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. Working with local attorneys in South Dakota, they helped the tribe defend a federal lawsuit challenging the authority of the tribe's courts to hear a discrimination case brought by tribal members against a non-Indian bank doing business on the reservation. In a twenty-one-page opinion released on June 26, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a 2003 discrimination verdict by a tribal jury awarding nearly a million dollars in damages, interest, and costs to the aggrieved tribal members.


Major Indian law victory

Federal Court Affirms South Dakota Indian Tribe's Sovereignty and Near Million Dollar Verdict for Tribal Members (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/9655.html)

June 26, 2007 -- The School of Law's American Indian Law and Economic Development Program and the St. Louis law firm of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal have garnered an important legal victory concerning the sovereignty of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. Working with local attorneys in South Dakota, they helped the tribe defend a federal lawsuit challenging the authority of the tribe's courts to hear a discrimination case brought by tribal members against a non-Indian bank doing business on the reservation. In a twenty-one-page opinion released on June 26, The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed a 2003 discrimination verdict by a tribal jury awarding nearly a million dollars in damages, interest, and costs to the aggrieved tribal members.


Important Indian law victory

School of Law and leading St. Louis law firm help South Dakota Indian tribe defend its sovereignty (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/7406.html)

Aug. 3, 2006 -- The School of Law's American Indian Law and Economic Development Program and the St. Louis law firm of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal have garnered an important legal victory concerning the sovereignty of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. Working with local attorneys in South Dakota, they helped the tribe defend a federal lawsuit challenging the authority of the tribe's courts to hear a discrimination case brought by tribal members against a non-Indian bank doing business on the reservation. In a fifteen-page opinion released this morning, Judge Charles B. Kornmann of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota ruled that the tribe's courts had jurisdiction over the case and affirmed a 2003 verdict by a tribal jury awarding $875,982.46 in damages, interest, and costs to the aggrieved tribal members.


Important Indian law verdict

Federal Court affirms South Dakota Indian tribe's sovereignty and near million dollar verdict for tribal members (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/7407.html)

July 18, 2006 -- The School of Law's American Indian Law and Economic Development Program and the St. Louis law firm of Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal have garnered an important legal victory concerning the sovereignty of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. Working with local attorneys in South Dakota, they helped the tribe defend a federal lawsuit challenging the authority of the tribe's courts to hear a discrimination case brought by tribal members against a non-Indian bank doing business on the reservation. In a fifteen-page opinion released this morning, Judge Charles B. Kornmann of the U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota ruled that the tribe's courts had jurisdiction over the case and affirmed a 2003 verdict by a tribal jury awarding $875,982.46 in damages, interest, and costs to the aggrieved tribal members.



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