In September 2007, John Sturgeon was operating a state-registered hovercraft to access moose-hunting grounds surrounding the Nation River in the Yukon-Charley National Preserve in Alaska. Sturgeon v. Masica, 768 F.3d 1066, 1070 (9th Cir. 2014)....
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The decedent, Mark Sveen, purchased a life insurance policy in 1997. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Melin, 853 F.3d 410, 411 (8th Cir. 2017). Later that year, Mark Sveen married Kaye Melin, and in 1998, he designated Melin as the primary beneficiary of...
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The Prairie Band of the Potawatomi Nation ("the Nation") is a federally-recognized Indian tribe located on United States trust land in Jackson County, Kansas. Prairie Band Potawatomi v. Richards, 379 F.3d 979, 981 (10th Cir. 2004) ("...