Tribe’s Trespass Claim Against Officers In Wrongful Death Case Heads To High Court

(January 3, 2018, 12:33 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The 2007 shooting death of a Ute Tribe member during a police chase, which has been the subject of several lawsuits, reached the U.S. Supreme Court for the second time with the Dec. 12 filing of a petition for a writ of certiorari by police officers involved in the chase seeking reversal of a 10th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling sending part of the dispute to tribal court for resolution (Vance Norton, et al. v. The Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Reservation, et al., No. 17-855, U.S. Sup., 2017 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 4942)....