Tribe Decries Cert Bid By Non-Indian Who Was Hit With Tribal Protection Order

(December 17, 2019, 8:42 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — With no conflict among the courts and several misinterpretations of an appellate court ruling, there are no grounds for the U.S. Supreme Court to review a non-Indian woman’s jurisdictional challenge to a tribal court’s issuance of a protection order against her for allegedly stalking her stepson, tribal court defendants told the high court Dec. 9 (Joy Spurr v. Melissa Lopez Pope, et al., No. 19-598, U.S. Sup., 2019 U.S. S. CT. BRIEFS LEXIS 7209)....