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Jessica Intermill represents Indian tribes, tribal members, and businesses in matters involving sovereign immunity, taxation, reservation boundaries, and tribal jurisdiction. She also advises tribes regarding governance issues, including assisting in the drafting of tribal laws. Jessica joined the firm in 2008, after practicing agribusiness and complex-case litigation and environmental law.
Jessica is a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association and the Indian-law section of the Federal Bar Association. She has presented and published articles on a variety of topics, including taxation in Indian country and constitutional law. Jessica is a past President of the Board of Directors of the nonprofit Family Tree Clinic.
Jessica’s Indian-law experience includes:
- Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan v. Granholm. Represented the Tribe in five-government settlement of reservation-boundary dispute to recognize the treaty boundaries of the Tribe’s reservation
- Pourier v. South Dakota Dept. of Revenue. Obtained award of costs and attorney fees for tribal-member gas-station owner who sued to stop the State from imposing a motor-fuel-tax on Indians on the Pine Ridge reservation. (South Dakota Circuit Court 2010)
- Wells Fargo v. Lake of the Torches Economic Development Corporation. Successfully urged federal court to find that tribal corporation’s bond indenture was void under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, and that the court lacked jurisdiction to enforce the bond. 677 F. Supp. 2d 1056 (W.D. Wis. 2010), motion to reconsider denied at 2010 WL 1687877 (W.D. Wis. April 23, 2010)
- Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan v. Granholm. Successfully argued that Rosebud Sioux statutory-diminishment defense did not apply to treaty-based reservation-boundary case as a matter of law. 2009 WL 1285846 (E.D. Mich. April 29, 2009)
- Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe of Michigan v. Granholm. Successfully argued that Sherrill laches defense did not apply to treaty-based reservation-boundary case as a matter of law. 2008 WL 4808823 (E.D. Mich. October 22, 2008)
