May 27, 2022
The Ninth Circuit has granted an automatic stay of a dispute between a campsite operator and the Blackfeet Nation, saying the halt in proceedings was triggered by the company's notice of bankruptcy.
May 24, 2022
The Blackfeet Indian Nation on Tuesday blasted a Montana campground operator's decision to declare Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week, calling the move a "last-ditch desperate effort to illegally occupy" tribal land amid the two sides' trespassing dispute.
May 19, 2022
The Blackfeet Indian Nation urged a federal judge on Wednesday not to interfere with its efforts to close a privately run campground on its Montana reservation, saying the U.S. government has failed to refute the tribe's position that the camp's lease expired nearly 15 years ago.
May 06, 2022
The Blackfeet Indian Nation has escalated its bid to close a privately run campground on its Montana reservation by ordering the site to be vacated immediately, even as a dispute over its lease remains pending, prompting the camp to ask a federal court Friday to block that move.
September 20, 2021
The Blackfeet Indian Nation has asked a Montana federal judge to toss a campsite operator's lawsuit seeking to arbitrate a lease dispute, but the tribe's argument that the complaint came too late to review the lease cancellation will depend on whether it is found to have been valid at the start of the parties' battle.