Source: http://www.thejacobsonlawgroup.com/bio/joseph-f-halloran
Timestamp: 2019-04-23 23:56:12+00:00

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Joe has an AV Preeminent® Martindale Hubbell® rating.
Joe represents tribes in a broad array of matters, including litigation, cultural resources protection, real property, intellectual property, governance, regulation, business and finance, legislative affairs, and Indian child welfare. He has also served as in-house general counsel and is a qualified neutral mediator and arbitrator under Rule 114 of the Minnesota Rules of Practice for the District Courts. Throughout his career, Joe has represented tribal gaming regulatory authorities in all aspects of tribal gaming regulation, including internal governance and regulatory structure, compliance and enforcement efforts, litigation and administrative proceedings relating to those activities, and intergovernmental affairs at the state and federal level.
Joe also represents tribes in real-property acquisition and trust-transfer efforts involving bare land, land with housing, and land slated for housing or commercial uses and exchanges, rights-of-way re-conveyances, interagency transfers, and transfers of fractional interests.
In addition, Joe represents tribes in intellectual property protection, including service and trademarks, and has been active in enforcing clients rights against infringing users, including litigation before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and the federal courts.
Throughout his career, Joe has also represented tribes in Indian child welfare proceedings at the tribal, state and federal trial and appellate levels, both as parties and as amici curiae.
Joe has taught Indian law at William Mitchell College of Law and has presented and lectured at numerous continuing legal education courses. He is a special member of the Minnesota Indian Bar Association. Joe has been married to his wife Kristi for 21 years and has four children and one grandchild.
New York, New Jersey, Vermont, Connecticut & Prairie Island Indian Community v. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 681 F.3d 471 (D.C. Cir. 2012). Representing tribal client as intervenor in challenge to NRC waste storage rules. Successful at lower court and pending appeal.
Bruce H. Lien Company v. The Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, 93 F.3d 1412 (8th Cir. 1995). Established that the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act does not overcome the doctrine of comity and mandatory deference to tribal courts, and where there is a tribal law challenge to a gaming management agreement, that matter must be first litigated in the tribal court.
Hester v. Lower Sioux Indian Community, et al., 885 F.Supp.2d 934 (D. Minn, 2012). Successfully represented tribal client in Section 1983 challenge based upon tribal officer’s arrest.
Wolfchild v. Redwood County, et al., 91 F.Supp.3d 1093 (D. Minn. 2015). Successfully represented the Lower Sioux Indian Community in a challenge to their land and sovereignty.
Wolfchild v. Redwood County, et al., 112 F.Supp.3d 866 (D. Minn. 2015). Awarded sanctions against Plaintiffs' attorney.
Wolfchild v. Redwood County, et al., 824 F.3d 761 (8th Cir. 2016), cert denied, 580 U.S. 2 (2016). Prevailed at the 8th Circuit. U.S. Supreme denied Plaintiffs' cert petition.
Klammer v. The Lower Sioux Convenience Store, 535 N.W.2d 379 (Minn. Ct. App. 1995). Established that Minnesota state courts must defer to tribal courts in cases arising on a reservation where the tribe has established a court that has jurisdiction over the matter.
In re MH, 956 N.E.2d 510 (Ill. Ct. App. 2011). Represented tribe in state-court appeal regarding ICWA’s tribal-court transfer provisions.
Johnson v. Child Welfare Office of the Prairie Island Indian Community, CA-06-05 (Prairie Island Ct. App., Feb. 15, 2006). Established Community’s extraterritorial jurisdiction over its members in need of protection or services, confirming the Community’s jurisdiction over two tribal member children residing in the state of Florida.
Prairie Island Indian Community v. Treasure Island Corporation, Cancellation Nos. 92028171, 92028379 (TTAB May 15, 2008). Ordering cancellation of seventeen federal trademarks held by the Corporation that infringe on the Community's intellectual property rights.

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