Today, the United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that Oklahoma has jurisdiction to prosecute non-Indians who commit crimes against Indians in Indian Country. It is the first time in U.S. history that ...
DES MOINES - The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday overruled a Tama County magistrate's order dismissing trespassing and drug charges against a Marshalltown woman because he misinterpreted a recent federal ...
A federal court upheld Tulsa County’s right to prosecute nonmember Native Americans for certain crimes on Muscogee (Creek) Nation land, reaffirming state jurisdiction amid ongoing debates over tribal ...
The justices narrowly rejected a challenge to the constitutionality of a Pennsylvania law that allows any company doing business in the state to be sued there – even if the corporation is not ...
At the last Supreme Court oral argument of Justice Stephen Breyer’s career, the court stepped into a dispute over the state of Oklahoma’s criminal jurisdiction authority in Indian country. After ...
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Bigelow Aerospace of Las Vegas has petitioned the U.S. government for a change in the export licensing jurisdiction for the inflatable module technology that is the basis of the commercial space ...