August 24, 2018
A federal judge has let a Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board lieutenant escape a suit from Native American tribe members over confiscated commercial cigarettes, finding that there was a legal warrant for the seizure, among other things.
May 12, 2017
A Washington federal judge on Thursday freed three law enforcement agents from a suit with which Native American tribe members had attempted to block criminal prosecution for illegal cigarette sales on tribal land, marking the dismissal of the last remaining named defendants and so the case itself.
May 02, 2017
Native American tribe members have blasted a bid to dismiss the three remaining defendants in their Washington federal court suit seeking to block criminal prosecution for illegal cigarette sales on Indian land, rejecting the contention that two state agents have immunity since they acted as federal agents.
April 14, 2017
Federal prosecutors asked a Washington judge Thursday to dismiss the remaining defendants in litigation brought by four Native American tribes seeking to block criminal prosecution for illegal cigarette sales on Indian land, saying two state agents have immunity since they acted as federal agents.
March 29, 2017
A Washington federal judge refused Wednesday to sanction attorneys for members of four Native American tribes who unsuccessfully tried to block state employees from pursuing criminal cases for the illegal sale of cigarettes on Indian land, finding that arguments made in their proposed third amended complaint weren't frivolous.
March 21, 2017
Native American tribe members blasted a bid for sanctions filed by Washington state employees they have sued in an attempt to block them from pursuing criminal cases for the illegal sale of cigarettes on Indian land, defending their proposed amended complaint as justified and calling the sanctions request an "unjustified attack."
September 19, 2016
A Washington federal judge on Friday tossed claims by Native American tribe members against state judges and prosecutors seeking to block them from pursuing criminal cases for the illegal sale of cigarettes on Indian land, saying that the members' arguments had been shot down in an earlier state Supreme Court case.