Ruling That Traffic Stop Site Is On Reservation Is Wrong, Police Tell Justices

(March 3, 2020, 4:12 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — There is no support in U.S. Supreme Court precedent for a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals holding that a section of land in California where an Indian tribe says the local police are illegally ticketing and targeting Indian drivers is part of the tribe’s reservation, a county sheriff and deputy sheriff tell the court in a Feb. 14 reply brief (John McMahon, et al. v. Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, et al., No. 19-820, U.S. Sup.)....