Gabe Galanda, Anthony Broadman to Co-Chair 19th Annual Northwest Gaming Law Summit

Gabe Galanda and Anthony Broadman will co-chair the 19th Annual Northwest Gaming Law Summit at the Washington Athletic Club in Seattle on December 9 and 10, 2021.

The Summit, which remains the most important gaming legal education event in the country, attracts a veritable “who’s who” in the tribal and commercial gaming industries.

Agenda For Thursday, December 9, 2021

9:00 PDT

INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW

Anthony S. Broadman, Program Co-Chair
Galanda Broadman PLLC

Gabriel S. Galanda, Program Co-Chair
Galanda Broadman PLLC

David A. Malone, Program Co-Chair
(Live, via Webcast)
Miller Malone & Tellefson

9:10

NATIONAL INDIAN GAMING LITIGATION UPDATE

Review of the major cases decided over the past year regarding the interpretation and implementation of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and tribal/state compacts governing tribal gaming operations.

Scott D. Crowell
Crowell Law Office – Tribal Advocacy Group PLLC

9:45

INDIAN GAMING FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE UPDATE

Review of major federal legislative and policy developments over the last year that impact tribal governments and gaming enterprises.

Joshua Clause
Clause Law PLLC

Aurene M. Martin, President
Spirit Rock Consulting, Inc.

10:45

BREAK

11:00

NORTHWEST GAMING STATE LEGISLATIVE UPDATE

Review of major Washington and Oregon state legislative and policy developments over the last year that impact tribal governments and gaming enterprises.

Anthony S. Broadman, Moderator
Galanda Broadman PLLC

Rebecca George, Executive Director
Washington Indian Gaming Association

Justin Martin
Perseverance Strategies, Inc.

Anna Richter Taylor
(Live, via Webcast)
ART Public Affairs

12:15

MIDDAY BREAK

1:30

SECTION 20 LITIGATION & ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATE

Review of cases decided over the past year regarding the interpretation and implementation of Section 20 of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.

John A. Maier
Maier Pfeffer Kim Geary & Cohen LLP

Scott Wheat
Wheat Law Offices

2:30

SPECIAL KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: THE STATE OF FEDERAL/TRIBAL GAMING RELATIONS

Update on the Department of the Interior's Federal policy agenda for Indian Country

Bryan Newland, Assistant Secretary
Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior

3:00

BREAK

3:15

SPECIAL KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: INDIAN GAMING IN 2022

Ernest L. Stevens, Jr., Chairman
National Indian Gaming Association

3:45

INDIAN GAMING POST-PANDEMIC: TRIBAL EXECUTIVE INSIGHTS

Review of how tribal governments and gaming enterprises have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and adapted for the future.

Rebecca George, Executive Director, Moderator
Washington Indian Gaming Association

Hon. W. Ron Allen, Chairman
Washington Indian Gaming Association

Junior Maldonado, Executive Director
Gaming Operations, Muckleshoot Casino Resort

Laura Penney, Chief Executive Officer
Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort Hotel

5:00

ADJOURN

Agenda For Friday, December 10, 2021

9:00 PDT

INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW

Anthony S. Broadman, Program Co-Chair
Galanda Broadman PLLC

Gabriel S. Galanda, Program Co-Chair
Galanda Broadman PLLC

David A. Malone, Program Co-Chair
(Live, via Webcast)
Miller Malone & Tellefson

9:10

SPORTS COMPACT LITIGATION

Review of a recent Florida case and discussion of the potential future application of the Florida model in the Pacific Northwest.

David A. Malone, Moderator
(Live, via Webcast)
Miller Malone & Tellefson

Marc W. Dunbar
(Live, via Webcast)
Dean Mead
Tallahassee, FL

Robert M. Jarvis
(Live, via Webcast)
Professor of Law
Nova Southeastern University
Fort Lauderdale, FL

10:15

BREAK

10:30

SPORTS BETTING – A PANEL DISCUSSION

Review of “brick and mortar” models such as Washington State’s new compact amendments; “mobile” models as in Florida and Colorado; state law-based models as in Michigan, Arizona and Connecticut, and California’s competing ballot measures.

Scott Wheat, Moderator
Wheat Law Offices

Steve M. Bodmer, General Counsel
Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians

Scott D. Crowell
Crowell Law Office – Tribal Advocacy Group PLLC

Christine M. Masse
Miller Nash LLP

12:00

ADJOURN

Matt Slovin Named to Harvard Law School Alumni Board

Matt Slovin, an Associate for Galanda Broadman PLLC, was recently named to the Executive Board of the Harvard Law School Association's Recent Graduates Network.

The Recent Graduates Network helps to keep those who graduated in the past 10 years connected to the school and its affiliates.

Slovin is a 2019 graduate of Harvard Law School. He will serve a two-year term as co-communications chair.

Matt Slovin is an Associate at Galanda Broadman, PLLC, an Indigenous rights law firm. His practice focuses on Indian civil rights litigation, as well as cases involving tribal governments and enterprises.

Federal Infrastructure Bill Provides $3 Billion for Tribal Transportation

By Matt Slovin

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), which President Joe Biden signed into law on November 15, authorizes approximately $3 billion in spending for the tribal transportation program over the next five fiscal years.

 Under the pre-existing tribal transportation program, the federal government maintains a “comprehensive national inventory of tribal transportation facilities that are eligible for assistance.” 23 U.S.C. § 202(b)(1)(A). The program’s purpose is “to provide safe and adequate transportation and public road access to and within Indian reservations, Indian lands, and Alaska Native Village communities.” See U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Tribal Transportation, https://highways.dot.gov/federal-lands/programs-tribal.

Of the $3 billion in tribal transportation spending, $100 million is allocated toward tribal transportation facility bridges. An additional $825 million is available under the same program in supplemental appropriations. Under Section 14004 of the IIJA, the bridge-specific funds are to be used:

(1) to carry out any planning, design, engineering, pre-construction, construction, and inspection of new or replacement tribal transportation facility bridges;

(2) to replace, rehabilitate seismically retrofit, paint, apply calcium magnesium acetate, sodium acetate/formate, or other environmentally acceptable, minimally corrosive anti-icing and deicing composition; or

(3) to implement any countermeasure for tribal transportation facility bridges classified as in poor condition, having a low load capacity, or needing geometric improvements, including multiple-pipe culverts.

Under the new law, the Bureau of Indian Affairs will receive a $270 million appropriation for its road maintenance program. The IIJA also raises the percentage of tribal transportation funds available to tribal governments applying for highway safety improvement projects from 2 to 4 percent.

The new law sets aside $9 million of the tribal transportation dollars to carry out the Tribal High Priority Projects Program, which helps repair or reconstruct eligible tribal transportation facilities. The IIJA also contains a separate, $30 million annual appropriation toward the Tribal High Priority Projects Program.   

The IIJA creates the Office of Tribal Government Affairs within the Department of Transportation, to be led by an Assistant Secretary for Tribal Government Affairs. It also contemplates a consultation process between the Secretary of Transportation, Indian tribes, Alaska Native villages, and state transportation departments to develop best practices for sharing and analyzing on-reservation crash data, as well as to create a standardized form to implement those best practices.

Finally, the IIJA requires the Secretary of Transportation to allocate at least one seat on a newly formed working group on covered transportation resources to tribal governments.

Matt Slovin is an Associate at Galanda Broadman, PLLC, an Indigenous rights law firm. His practice focuses on Indian civil rights litigation, as well as cases involving tribal governments and enterprises.

Gray v. City of Forks

A federal civil rights lawsuit brought by the estate and mother of a 23 year-old Quileute woman who took her own life while in the care of the Forks jail after she was sexually accosted and tormented by a jail guard.

Galanda Broadman Named "Best Firm" in Native American & Gaming Law for Tenth Year

Galanda Broadman, PLLC, has been named a “Best Law Firm” by U.S. News - Best Lawyers in the arena of Native American Law and Gaming Law, for the tenth year in a row. 

According to U.S. News - Best Lawyers, the firm's national ranking was determined through the firm's overall evaluation, which was derived from a combination of Galanda Broadman’s “clients' impressive feedback” and “the high regard that lawyers in other firms in the same practice area have for [the] firm.” 

Galanda Broadman is dedicated to advancing Indigenous legal rights and business interests and defending Indigenous human rights.

The firm, with nine lawyers and offices in Seattle and Yakima, Washington and Bend, Oregon, represents Indigenous governments, businesses, and citizens in critical litigation, business and regulatory matters—especially in matters of Treaty rights, sovereignty, taxation, civil rights, and belonging.