Eastern Shoshone Tribe – Page 2

This appears to be an effort to avoid a tribal court trial in the wrongful death action brought by an oil worker at the Wind River Reservation (news coverage here).

Update: Last week’s hearing transcript here: encana-v-st-clair-transcript-of-march-2-pi-hearing REV (H/T)

Encana Complaint

Exhibit A – Tribal Court Orders

Exhibit B — Tribal Appellate Court Order

Exhibit C — tribal court complaint

Exhibit E — Encana Jurisdictional Submissions

Exhibit F — DHS Jurisdictional Submissions

Exhibit K — Wind River TERO

Exhibit M — Northern Arapaho Motion to Intervene

Exhibit N — Eastern Shoshone Motion to Intervene

Exhibit P — Order Allowing Intervention

Exhibit Q1 — Compilation of Tribal Court Pleadings

DCT Order Granting Estate Motion to Intervene

Encana Motion for PI

Defendant Opposition to Motion for PI

Encana Reply in Support of PI Motion

Defendant Motion to Dismiss

Encana Opposition to Def Motion to Dismiss

Update in Northern Arapaho Tribe v. Harnsberger (Suit to Oppose State Taxes)

January 4, 2012Matthew L.M. Fletcher2 Comments

Here are the appellee briefs (the appellant brief is here):

Fremont County Appellee Brief

Wyoming Appellee Brief

Eastern Shoshone Brief

US Brief

Wind River Tribes’ Opening Brief in Federal Circuit Appeal of Trust Claim re: “Conversion” of Tribal Mineral Leases

January 29, 2011January 28, 2011Matthew L.M. Fletcher1 Comment

Here is that brief in Shoshone Tribe v. United States: Wind River Tribes Opening Brief

Wind River Reservation Diminshment — Yellowbear v. Wyoming (Wyo. S. Ct.)

January 15, 2008Matthew L.M. Fletcher3 Comments

The Wyoming Supreme Court decided Yellowbear v. Wyoming, finding that the Wind River Reservation had been diminished in upholding the conviction of Yellowbear (h/t Indianz).

Once again, a state court has been placed in the position of adjudicating Indian reservation boundaries in the context of of a criminal case.