Justices Must Remedy Police Jurisdiction Ruling, Washington Tribe Says

(March 19, 2021, 2:33 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Supreme Court intervention is needed for a Washington Indian tribe’s challenge to a police jurisdiction ruling by the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals because the decision goes against the principle that control of federal jurisdiction on Indian land is in the hands of Congress, not the states, the tribe says in its March 12 reply brief in support of its high court petition....