Chegup et al v. Ute Indian Tribal Court of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation et al
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2:19-cv-00286
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June 26, 2023
Ute Member Wants Court To Reinstate Banished Women
A member of the Ute Indian Tribe is asking a federal court for another chance at lifting a five-year banishment of four of its members from their Utah reservation, saying a tribal court prohibited them from presenting evidence and violated their due process.
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September 19, 2022
Judge Says Banished Utes Didn't Exhaust Tribal Remedies
A Utah federal judge tossed a lawsuit from a group of Ute Indian Tribe members challenging their temporary banishment from the tribe's reservation, saying the ousted Ute elders should have taken their case to tribal court before bringing it to federal court.
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August 17, 2022
Ute Courts Must Rule On Banishment Law, Tribe Says
The Ute Indian Tribe maintains that only its own courts are authorized to review a tribal law at the heart of federal proceedings over its temporary banishment of four members, saying the Supreme Court and the Tenth Circuit have repeatedly left such matters to Native jurists.
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June 02, 2022
Banished Ute Tribe Members Seek Quicker Reinstatement
A group of Ute Indian Tribe members have again implored a federal judge to overturn their banishment from the tribe before they are automatically reinstated in late 2023, claiming they have essentially been detained for more than three years in violation of U.S. law.
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March 18, 2022
Ute Banishment Case Belongs In Tribal Court, 10th Circ. Says
The Tenth Circuit on Friday revived a case over a group of Ute Indian Tribe members' five-year banishment but said the lower court ought to have found the exiled elders cannot sue their tribe in federal court if they haven't exhausted all tribal remedies.
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December 04, 2019
Ute Members' Banishment Suit Against Tribe Is Tossed
A Utah federal judge has nixed a suit by Ute Indian Tribe members challenging their five-year banishment from the tribe's reservation for allegedly interfering with a tribal lawsuit against the federal government, finding that a temporary ouster doesn't allow the members to bring Indian Civil Rights Act claims.