Here is the opinion in Cross v. Fox (D.N.D.):
Briefs are here.
District of North Dakota
Federal Court Dismisses Most Claims by Water Protectors against State and County over NoDAPL Protests
Here are the materials in Thunderhawk v. County of Morton (D.N.D.):
38 TigerSwan Answer + Counterclaim
45-1 Motion to Dismiss TigerSwan Counterclaim
56 TigerSwam Answer + 2d Counterclaim
67-1 Motion to Dismiss TigerSwan 2d Counterclaim
71 County Reply in Support of 49
76 State Reply in Support of 52
85 TigerSwan Reply in Support of 82
MHA Nation Citizens Sue over Tribal Voting Rights
Here is the complaint in Cross v. Fox (D.N.D.):
Federal Court Dismisses Challenge to Tribal TERO Order
Here are the materials in Hanson v. Parisien (D.N.D.):
Briefs in Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation v. Dept. of Interior [federal approval of drilling at Fort Berthold]
Here are the updated briefs in Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation v. Dept. of Interior (D.N.D.):
Prior post here.
MHA Allottee Trespass Action Dismissed
MHA Nation Allottees Motion to Certify Class in Trespass Action against Pipeline
Here is the motion in Hall v. Tesoro High Plains Gas Co. LLC (D.N.D.):
Prior post here.
Eighth Circuit Decides Enerplus Resources (USA) Corporation v. Wilkinson II
Eighth Circuit Decides Kodiak Oil & Gas (USA) Inc. v. Burr]
Here.
Excerpt:
A dispute over the practice of flaring natural gas from oil wells fuels the legal controversy in this case: the scope of Native American tribal court authority over nonmembers. Several members of the MHA Nation sued numerous non-tribal oil and gas companies in MHA tribal court. Those companies operate oil wells on lands within the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation that have been allotted to individual tribe members but are held in trust by the federal government. The tribe members alleged the companies owed royalties from wastefully-flared gas. Some of these companies unsuccessfully contested the tribal court’s jurisdiction over them in tribal court. Then they initiated this action in federal court to enjoin the tribal court plaintiffs and tribal court judicial officials. The district court issued a preliminary injunction, and the tribal court plaintiffs and officials separately appealed. We affirm the injunction because we conclude suits over oil and gas leases on allotted trust lands are governed by federal law, not tribal law, and the tribal court lacks jurisdiction over the nonmember oil and gas companies.
Briefs here.
Federal Court Materials in MHA Nation Allottees Trespass Suit against Oil and Gas Companies
Here are the materials so far in Hall v. Tesoro High Plains Gas Co. LLC (D.N.D.):
Here are materials in a related case, Chase v. Andeavor Logistics LP (W.D. Tex.):
