Montezuma Creek Clinic Plaintiffs Ask Navajo Supreme Court to Ignore Tenth Circuit Ruling

From the Salt Lake Tribune:

Federal appeals court judges have said a Navajo tribal court can’t force the San Juan County-owned Montezuma Creek Clinic to rehire employees who alleged they were wrongfully terminated.

But three former employees won’t take no for an answer.

In March, they asked the Navajo Supreme Court to instruct tribal courts to ignore that ruling from the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals [Supreme Court Project materials] — and to order the clinic to pay fines totaling more than $26 million. In addition, the ex-workers want their former employer to pay their attorneys’ fees for the past nine years.

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