Top Court Gets 2nd Shot At Resolving Tribe’s 40-Year Jurisdictional Battle

Mealey's (January 19, 2017, 11:16 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Utah city on Jan. 6 asked the U.S. Supreme Court to again rule on whether it is part of an Indian reservation for purposes of criminal jurisdiction in a dispute that continues after more than 40 years and has seen several appellate court rulings and a 1994 Supreme Court opinion (City of Myton, Utah v. Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation, No. 16-868, U.S. Sup.; 2017 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 51)....