November 06, 2015
A Utah county urged a federal district court to refuse a protective order barring depositions of tribal members, saying that it has a legal right to request these depositions in a tribe's suit seeking to block prosecutions of its members on various state charges on disputed territory.
October 20, 2015
The Ute Indian Tribe pressed a federal court on Monday to sanction Utah and one of its counties for prosecuting three tribe members for alleged on-reservation offenses despite a Tenth Circuit decision criticizing such proceedings, saying the state has a duty to curtail the county's alleged wrongful conduct.
October 13, 2015
A Utah tribe simultaneously moved for summary judgment and asked a district court to stay proceedings for an interlocutory appeal on Monday in an enduring dispute over reservation boundaries that the tribe says is at the heart of individual prosecutions of tribal members on various state charges.
October 06, 2015
A Utah district judge on Monday denied a tribe's motions for preliminary injunctions to stop six independent prosecutions against tribal members by the state and a local county amid a long-running dispute over reservation boundaries, ruling that five of the cases are moot and the sixth occurred outside the tribe's reservation.
October 02, 2015
A Utah county on Thursday attacked a tribe's bid for preliminary injunctions in prosecutions against individual tribal members on disputed territory, saying that some of the cases are moot and characterizing the tribe's arguments of being denied due constitutional process as irrelevant material that "litter the record."
September 29, 2015
A Native American tribe was ordered to make available two former leaders to be deposed in a Utah county's suit against the tribe, with a federal judge denying the tribe's request to quash the subpoenas because the officials have nothing to do with the tribe's illegal prosecution claims against the county.
September 25, 2015
A Utah tribe battling charges against individual members for alleged traffic violations on disputed Indian territory is allowing the prosecution of one its members by the state and a local county to go ahead, according to a brief filed in federal court Thursday.
September 24, 2015
The Ute Indian Tribe is unnecessarily prolonging a dispute over the alleged illegal prosecution of tribe members for on-reservation offenses by raising objections to a proposed discovery order, a Utah county told a federal court Wednesday.
September 14, 2015
A Utah federal court on Friday followed orders from the Tenth Circuit to enjoin state and county officials from prosecuting alleged traffic offenses against a member of the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation and dismiss their jurisdictional counterclaims against the tribe.
August 20, 2015
The Ute Indian Tribe in federal court Thursday renewed its bid for sanctions against the state of Utah and one of its counties for allegedly continuing to prosecute tribe members for on-reservation traffic offenses, saying the Tenth Circuit had already put the governments on notice that such actions would result in sanctions.