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Missoulian: Native Americans can face long wait for eagle feathers
How Can I Obtain Eagle Feathers or Parts?
National Eagle Repository
“The National Eagle Repository serves as a collection point for dead eagles. Most of the dead golden and bald eagles received by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) have been salvaged by State and Federal wildlife personnel. Many of these birds have died as a result of electrocution, vehicle collisions, unlawful shooting and trapping, or from natural causes.”

Helena Independent Record: Court throws out Prometheus drug patent
Mayo Collaborative Services v. Prometheus Laboratories, Inc.
“If a law of nature is not patentable, then neither is a process reciting a law of nature, unless that process has additional features that provide practical assurance that the process is more than a drafting effort designed to monopolize the law of nature itself. A patent, for example, could not simply recite a law of nature and then add the instruction “apply the law.””

Helena Independent Record: Court says state can't be sued over sick leave
Coleman v. Court of Appeals of Md.
“The Fourth Circuit affirmed, holding that unlike the family-care provision in Hibbs, the self-care provision was not directed at an identified pattern of gender-based discrimination and was not congruent and proportional to any pattern of sex-based discrimination on the part of States.”