Ute Indian Tribe v. UT, et al, et al

  1. October 02, 2015

    Utah County Fights Tribe's Bid To Halt Prosecutions

    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."

  2. September 29, 2015

    Ex-Tribal Leaders Must Testify In Illegal Prosecution Row

    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. 

  3. September 25, 2015

    Tribe Lets Utah's Prosecution Of Tribal Member Proceed

    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.

  4. September 24, 2015

    Utah County Says Tribe Is Stalling In Prosecutions Row

    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.

  5. September 14, 2015

    Utah, Counties Barred From Prosecuting On Tribal Land

    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.

  6. August 20, 2015

    Utes Slams State, County In Sanctions Bid Over Prosecutions

    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.

  7. August 10, 2015

    Man Can't Duck State Traffic Charge As Tribe Member

    A self-identified Ute Indian Tribe member claiming the state cannot prosecute him for a traffic offense does not legally qualify as a Native American and committed the alleged violation outside tribal lands, a Utah federal judge ruled Friday.

  8. August 04, 2015

    Utah County Fights Tribe's Sanctions Bid In Boundary Feud

    A Utah county on Monday denied that it has openly defied a scathing Tenth Circuit decision by illegally prosecuting Ute Indian Tribe members for on-reservation offenses, pushing back against the tribe's bid for sanctions.

  9. July 20, 2015

    Tribe Wants Utah Sanctioned Over Traffic Prosecutions

    The Ute Indian Tribe on Friday urged a federal judge to sanction the state of Utah and one of its counties for allegedly continuing to prosecute tribe members for on-reservation traffic offenses despite a scathing decision from the Tenth Circuit that blasted them for doing so.

  10. May 06, 2015

    Utes Object To Town's Dismissal Order In Jurisdiction Row

    The Ute Indian Tribe objected Tuesday in Utah federal court to a town's proposed order to certify its dismissal from a suit over the allegedly illegal prosecution of tribal members, arguing that the town's "pro forma" draft order doesn't justify its determinations.

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