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Becerra v. San Carlos Apache Tribe

Consolidated with:

Becerra v. Northern Arapaho Tribe

Docket No.	Op. Below	Argument	Opinion	Vote	Author	Term
23-250	9th Cir.	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD	OT 2023

Issue: Whether the Indian Health Service must pay “contract support costs” not only to support IHS-funded activities, but also to support the tribe’s expenditure of income collected from third parties.

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Date	Proceedings and Orders (key to color coding)
Aug 03 2023	Application (23A103) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from August 14, 2023 to September 13, 2023, submitted to Justice Kagan.
Aug 04 2023	Application (23A103) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until September 13, 2023.
Sep 13 2023	Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 16, 2023)
Oct 11 2023	Response to petition from respondent San Carlos Apache Tribe filed.
Oct 20 2023	Waiver of the 14-day waiting period for the distribution of the petition pursuant to Rule 15.5 filed by petitioners.
Oct 24 2023	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/9/2023.
Oct 24 2023	Reply of petitioners Xavier Becerra, Secretary of Health and Human Services, et al. filed. (Distributed)
Nov 13 2023	DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/17/2023.
Nov 20 2023	Petition GRANTED. The petition for a writ of certiorari in No. 23-253 is granted. The cases are consolidated, and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument.
Nov 20 2023	Because the Court has consolidated these cases for briefing and oral argument, future filings and activity in the cases will now be reflected on the docket of No. 23-250. Subsequent filings in these cases must therefore be submitted through the electronic filing system in No. 23-250. Each document submitted in connection with one or more of these cases must include on its cover the case number and caption for each case in which the filing is intended to be submitted. Where a filing is submitted in fewer than all of the cases, the docket entry will reflect the case number(s) in which the filing is submitted; a document filed in all of the consolidated cases will be noted as “VIDED.”