Carol Berry
June 23, 2012
Eight Osage Nation members who objected to greater latitude in tribal voting and tribal office were unsuccessful June 19 when they brought their concerns before the U.S...
A Kiowa Tribe member unsuccessfully challenged enforcement of Oklahoma’s anti-cockfighting statute on Indian country land when the U.S...
A New Mexico tribal member failed to convince the U.S. 10 th Circuit Court of Appeals May 10 that an assault conviction would affect his future tribal employment, in Ronald F...
A tribal nation that wants to invest the interest on federal housing grants described its position to a three-judge panel of the U.S. 10 th Circuit Court of Appeals on May 7...
Repeated efforts by the Muscogee (Creek) Nation to conduct tobacco sales without state intervention appear to have floundered in a federal appeals court which dismissed sovereignty...
A Navajo man who pleaded guilty to one count of abusive sexual contact unsuccessfully contested a post-release order that required him to enter a residential program even though tw...
Carol Berry
February 14, 2012
A 25-year-old Northern Arapaho man deemed by a lower court to be “literally frozen in place with an alcohol addiction” failed to persuade the U.S...
Carol Berry
January 09, 2012
The theft of $4,000 from a Choctaw casino in Oklahoma led to a legal defense worthy of a larger heist...
Carol Berry
January 09, 2012
The fallout from the Termination Era affects Native lives today, a half-century after its inception, according to current litigation...
A man convicted of engaging in a sexual act with a 12-year-old girl should not be barred from contact with his son and other young family members in part because “there is absolute...

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