Cert Sought In Jurisdiction Row Over Tribe’s Protection Order Against Outsider

(November 21, 2019, 1:44 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A non-Indian woman who was slapped with a tribal civil protection order for allegedly stalking her stepson took her fight against tribal court jurisdiction to the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 5, arguing that she never had sufficient contacts with the tribe for its court to take jurisdiction over her (Joy Spurr v. Melissa Lopez Pope, et al., No. 19-598, U.S. Sup., 2019 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 6320)....