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

  1. September 27, 2016

    Utah Tribal Boundary Suit Bounces From Judge To Judge

    A jurisdictional dispute between the Ute Indian Tribe and the state of Utah and various counties and towns was bounced among three federal judges on Tuesday, after the Tenth Circuit expressed hope that a new judge might be able to resolve a 40-year courtroom battle over the tribe's reservation boundaries.

  2. July 26, 2016

    Senility Claim, Mormonism Ruled Not Enough To Ditch Judge

    A Utah federal judge on Monday denied a tribe's bid to recuse the judge on its case seeking to block state prosecutions of tribal members within disputed reservation boundaries, saying the attempt, which alleged senility and bias due to his Mormon faith, was meritless.

  3. February 01, 2016

    Utah, Counties Fight Tribe's Push To Halt Prosecutions

    The state of Utah and three counties pressed a federal court on Friday to deny a tribe's bid to block them from exercising criminal jurisdiction over tribal members on its reservation in an enduring dispute over reservation boundaries.

  4. January 13, 2016

    Utah Tribe Wants State, Counties Sanctioned In Land Row

    A Utah tribe battling state prosecutions of individual tribal members within disputed reservation boundaries told a federal district court Tuesday that the state, local counties and their counsel should be sanctioned for allegedly violating Tenth Circuit rulings that established the reservation boundaries.

  5. November 12, 2015

    Utah County Says Tribe Is Blocking Discovery In Land Row

    A Utah county urged a federal district judge Thursday not to grant immediate victory to a tribe seeking to block prosecutions of tribal members on various state charges on disputed territory, saying the tribe has refused to cooperate in the county's attempts to examine the tribe's claims.

  6. November 10, 2015

    Utah Counties Say Ute Tribe Blocking Discovery In Land Row

    Two Utah counties alleged on Monday that the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation has stonewalled their discovery efforts in a row over reservation boundaries and prosecutions of tribal members, urging a Utah federal judge to defer consideration of the tribe's bid for partial summary judgment.

  7. November 06, 2015

    Utah County Wants Tribe Members To Testify In Territory Row

    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.

  8. October 20, 2015

    Utah Should've Halted Unauthorized Prosecutions, Tribe Says

    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.

  9. October 13, 2015

    Utah Tribe Moves For Win In Suit to Halt Prosecutions

    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.

  10. October 06, 2015

    Utah Tribe Denied Bid To Bar State, County Prosecutions

    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.