Court Dismisses Utah City’s Petition In Ongoing Jurisdictional Battle With Tribe

(July 5, 2017, 1:35 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on July 3 granted a request by a Utah city to dismiss its petition for certiorari seeking an opinion from the court on whether the city is part of an Indian reservation for purposes of criminal jurisdiction in a dispute that has lasted more than 40 years and has seen several appellate court rulings and a prior 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. LEXIS 4286)....

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