No. 19-598
Joy Spurr v. Melissa L. Pope, Chief Judge, Tribal Court of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi, et al.
Tags: civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction non-tribal-member personal-protection-order sovereign-immunity tribal-sovereignty violence-against-women violence-against-women-act
Latest Conference:
2020-01-10
Question Presented (from Petition)
1. Suppose a nontribal member is sued in a court of an Indian Tribe, and later sues in federal court claiming that the tribal court lacked jurisdiction. Can the Tribe end the federal case by invoking sovereign immunity?
and
2. Does an Indian Tribe have jurisdiction to issue and enforce a personal protection order against a non-Tribal member who has none of the ties to the Tribe required by Section 1304 of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether a tribe can invoke sovereign immunity to end a federal case challenging the tribe's jurisdiction over a non-tribal member
Docket Entries
2020-01-13
Petition DENIED.
2019-12-23
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/10/2020.
2019-12-09
Brief of respondents Melissa L. Pope, et al. in opposition filed.
2019-11-05
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 9, 2019)
Attorneys
Joy Spurr
Stephen Josiah Spurr — Attorney at Law, Petitioner
Melissa L. Pope, et al.
David Angelo Giampetroni — Kanji & Katzen, PLLC, Respondent