Wisconsin Public Radio story is here.
Coverage of day one is here.
I think. The petition is a bit confusing. Here is the petition in Butler v. Montana:
Butler v Montana Cert Petition
Question presented (which tells us almost nothing):
The question presented is whether the justice of the peace, presiding over a court of no record, exercised jurisdiction over a sovereign nation in contravention of New Mexico v. Mescalero Apache Tribe, 462 U.S. 324, 338, 103 S. Ct. 2378, 2388-89, 76 L. Ed. 2d 611 (1983), and federal statutes conferring jurisdiction solely on the Navajo Nation by preventing Petitioner from hunting in the Navajo Nation.
Lower court decision, State v. Butler, here:
Apparently, this is an appeal to the Montana court’s order that Butler violated his probation he received for hunting violations in Montana because he went hunting on the Navajo Nation.
Just no.
Here.
Briefs:
Wisconsin’s Brief and Motion to Strike
Tribes’ Response to Motion to Strike
Previous material is here.
In R. v. Paul, a New Brunswick Provincial Court (Woodstock) determined that an aboriginal right to hunt does not necessarily include the right to build a private hunting cabin on Crown lands.
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