April 06, 2026
The Ute Indian Tribe says it will appeal a Utah federal court's determination that split estate lands within the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation are not Indian Country, by arguing the same issue the Tenth Circuit resolved in its favor more than four decades ago.
March 24, 2026
A Utah federal judge has determined that split estate lands within the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation are not Indian Country, saying that decades of precedent in the dispute over the Ute Indian Tribe's jurisdiction backs the decision.
January 15, 2026
The state of Utah and three of its counties are asking a federal district court to declare that split estate lands within the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation are not Indian Country for the purpose of determining criminal and civil jurisdiction, arguing that appellate and Supreme Court precedent settles the dispute.
September 17, 2025
A Utah federal judge on Wednesday lifted an eight-year stay in a decade-long feud over criminal prosecutions within the Ute Tribe's reservation boundaries, allowing the parties to litigate a sole issue in the case over the status of split estate surface lands.
September 27, 2016
A jurisdictional dispute between the Ute Indian Tribe and the state of Utah and various counties and towns was bounced among three federal judges on Tuesday, after the Tenth Circuit expressed hope that a new judge might be able to resolve a 40-year courtroom battle over the tribe's reservation boundaries.
July 26, 2016
A Utah federal judge on Monday denied a tribe's bid to recuse the judge on its case seeking to block state prosecutions of tribal members within disputed reservation boundaries, saying the attempt, which alleged senility and bias due to his Mormon faith, was meritless.
February 01, 2016
The state of Utah and three counties pressed a federal court on Friday to deny a tribe's bid to block them from exercising criminal jurisdiction over tribal members on its reservation in an enduring dispute over reservation boundaries.
January 13, 2016
A Utah tribe battling state prosecutions of individual tribal members within disputed reservation boundaries told a federal district court Tuesday that the state, local counties and their counsel should be sanctioned for allegedly violating Tenth Circuit rulings that established the reservation boundaries.
November 12, 2015
A Utah county urged a federal district judge Thursday not to grant immediate victory to a tribe seeking to block prosecutions of tribal members on various state charges on disputed territory, saying the tribe has refused to cooperate in the county's attempts to examine the tribe's claims.
November 10, 2015
Two Utah counties alleged on Monday that the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation has stonewalled their discovery efforts in a row over reservation boundaries and prosecutions of tribal members, urging a Utah federal judge to defer consideration of the tribe's bid for partial summary judgment.