Rosales

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 10 Walter J. Rosales, et al., No. 2:20-cv-00521-KJM-KJIN Plaintiffs, ORDER Vv. United States Department of the Interior, et al., Defendants. 16 Three years ago, this court dismissed a lawsuit by several Native American lineal 18 descendants and former leaders of the Jamul Indian Village. See Rosales vy. Dutschke, 279 F. Supp. 3d 1084 (E.D. Cal. 2017). According to their complaint, the defendants had 20 disinterred and removed their family members’ remains while constructing a casino or had not prevented the disinterment. See id. at 1088. The court dismissed the case because some of the 22 defendants were immune from suit and because a necessary party, the Jamul Indian Village, could not be joined. See id. at 1090-94. The plaintiffs appealed, and the Ninth Circuit affirmed in an unpublished memorandum disposition. See Rosales v. Dutschke, 878 F. App’x 406 (9th Cir. 2019). It…